History of Bitcoin 2016

2 January 2016 Lightning labs was founded by Elizabeth Stark, Joseph Poon,Thaddeus Dryja, and Olaoluwa Osuntokun.

14 January 2016 Mike hearn left Bitcoin development.

19 January 2016 The movie Banking on Bitcoin was released.

30 January 2016 Network rate exceeded 1 exahash/sec

1 February 2016  Jyske Bankmanager Anders Dam said Bitcoin was an advanced version of the Christiania coin.

4 February 2016 A Vietnamese movie named Bitcoin Heist was released.

23 February 2016 Bitcoin core 0.12 was released

1 March 2016 Japan recognized virtual currencies as having a function similar to real money. Bidorbuy, the largest South African online marketplace, launched btc payments for both buyers and sellers

14 March 2016 Shapeshift was hacked loss=315 BTC 2 more attacks which resulted in 469 BTC, 1900 LTC and 5800 ETH stolen

30 March 2016 Wuille,Johnson Lau & Lombrozo launched final testnet of SegWit.Repeated DDoS attacks forced Coinkite Btc wallet to close down web service

31 March 2016 Timo Hanke released ASICboost white paper. Sergio Demian Lerner collaborated with Timo Hanke in creating Asicboost.

31 March 2016 1 BTC= 417 USD

15 April 2016 Bitcoin core 0.12.1 was released

27 April 2016 Steam accepted BTC

15 May 2016 Gatecoin was hacked.Loss 2 Mio USD. Peter Todd & Matt Corallo proposed hard-fork changes to combat Asicboost mining.

27 May 2016 KnCMiner declared bankrupt

11 June 2016 Coinapult established 300 Bitcoin kiosks in Colombia.

25 June 2016 Ransomware attacks up 500% in 2015

1 July 2016 A group of researchers published a paper showing that by November 2013 btc commerce was no longer driven by illegal activities but instead by legitimate enterprises

9 July 2016 The second Bitcoin halving occurred.  Miners reward down to 12.5 Bitcoin.
 
11 July 2016 Cryptocurrency executive kidnapped at car wash in Lithaunia.
 
25 July 2016 Bitcoin trader robbed in Florida, loss 28000 USD

2 August 2016 Bitfinex hacked Loss =119756 BTC

14 August 2016 Teen gang in Toronto arrested for several Btc robberies.

23 August 2016 Bitcoin core 0.13 was released

3 October 2016 Adam Back was appointed as CEO of Blockstream

27 October 2016 Bitcoin core 0.13.1 was released

28 October 2016 Zcash launched

1 November 2016 Swiss Railway SBB upgraded automated ticket machines so that BTC could be bought from them using the scanner on the ticket machine to scan the BTC address on a phone app.
 
6 November 2016 1 BTC ATM was stolen in Oudenbosch

17 November 2016 1 BTC= 752 USD

29 November 2016 1 BTC= 977.35 USD

22 December 2016 1 BTC=874 USD.Wells Fargo scandal pushed consumers toward fintech lenders.

31 December 2016 3580 Google Scholar articles published mentioned bitcoin