History of Bitcoin 2015

Steve Quezadas at La shop accepting BTC,One of the first to accept BTC at his shop on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood

 

1 January 2015 Bitstamp exchange was hacked(19000 Btc),$5.2 Million worth of bitcoin was stolen one of its active operational bitcoin storage wallets was "phished".1 BTC= 313.92 USD

2 January 2015 Brian Kelly wrote the bitcoin bang
 
3 January 2015 A smokeshop in Atlanta was robbed for a Bitcoin atm

11 January 2015 1 BTC= 265.34 USD
 
22 January 2015 Thieves stole 2 Btc atms in Amsterdam

23 January 2015 First Real vision youtube video
 
1 February 2015 A New York Bitcoin trader was robbed for 12000 USD in BTC

10 February 2015 Bitcoin exchange MyCoin vanished - leaving up to 387 million usd in investor funds unaccounted for.

16 February 2015 Bitcoin core 0.10 was released

17 February 2015 Bter was hacked.claimed that 7170 BTC was stolen from a cold wallet.

30 February 2015 Merchants accepting bitcoin exceeded 100000

March 2015 Xcoin/Darkcoin rebranded as Dash

12 March 2015 Intuit launched bitcoin payment service in Australia

18 March 2015 Coinapult hot wallet hacked loss=150 BTC(42900 USD).KipCoin announced hacker gained access to the server in 2014 and downloaded the wallet.dat file. A few months later, the attacker stole more than 3,000 BTC.

18 March 2015 Evolution Market's Admins exitscammed, loss= $12 mio Bitcoin

26 March 2015 Bitcoin exchange Cryptoine hacked

10 April 2015 Buttercoin shut down. Lacked funding

14 April 2015 Bitcoin baron arrested.

23 April 2015 Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna the first museum to acquire art using btc, with the purchase of the screensaver "Event listeners" of van den Dorpel

27 April 2015 Bitcoin core 0.10.1 was released

19 May 2015 Bitcoin core 0.10.2 was released
 
27 May 2015 A New York Firefighter was kidnapped and robbed of 1100 USD in Btc.

3 June 2015 The Bitlicense was released in New York.

13 June 2015 Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It movie released.

19 June 2015 The fiction movie Dope was released - First movie to accept Bitcoin payment

12 July 2015 Bitcoin core 0.11 was released

17 July 2015 Jeff Garzik proposed to double bitcoin block size limit.

30 July 2015 Altcoin Etherium was launched.

15 August 2015 Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen Released Bitcoin XT

21 August 2015 Extortionists Targeted Ashley Madison Users, demanded Bitcoin

1 October 2015 Proposal submitted to Unicode Consortium to add a code point for the bitcoin symbol.

1 October 2015 Largest known bitcoin transaction - Sheik Saoud bought One coin ltd for 230000 BTC from Ruja Ignatova.

8 October 2015 Gemini exchange was launched.

12 October 2015 Blockstream released Liquid sidechain

14 October 2015 Bitcoin core 0.10.3 was released

15 October 2015 Bitcoin core 0.11.1 was released

22 October 2015 EU declared no VAT on Bitcoin transactions 1 BTC= 274.41 USD

31 October 2015 Bitcoin was on the frontpage of The Economist 1 BTC= 312.43 USD

4 November 2015 China banned oversea cash withdrawals 1 BTC= 408 USD

8 November 2015 Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto nominated for Nobel Prize

10 November 2015 1 BTC= 312.43 USD

13 November 2015 Bitcoin core 0.11.2 was released
 
16 November 2015 Bitcoin ATM was stolen in Delft, Netherlands. Loss=2000 Euro.

8 December 2015 Gwern and Wired claimed Craig Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto.

9 December 2015 The home & office of Craig Wright was raided by Australian police.

11 December 2015 1 BTC= 419.14 USD