History of Bitcoin 2017

1 January 2017 Citigroup reported that 95% of all trades was executed by Chinese.

2 January 2017 1 BTC=1000 USD. NHK reported the number of online stores accepting btc in Japan had increased 4.6 times over the past year

3 January 2017 Bitcoin core 0.13.2 was released

25 January 2017 An Australian documentary Magic Money:The bitcoin revolution released.

1 February 2017 Total number of Btc ATMs worldwide crossed 1000 for the first time.BitPay declared the company's transaction rates grew 3× from January 2016 to February 2017, because usage of btc grew in B2B supply chain payments.

16 February 2017 A London Localbitcoin trade ended in robbery
 
26 February 2017 A wife of an exchange owner was kidnapped and ransomed in Florianpolis.

8 March 2017 Bitcoin core 0.14 was released
 
14 March 2017 3 Btc traders robbed in Dubai for 25 BTC

31 March 2017 Mexican Bitso trading volume increase 1500%

31 March 2017 Btc price 1 BTC= 1020 USD. Bitcoin VR game was released

1 April 2017 Japan declared BTC legal.

22 April 2017 Bitcoin core 0.14.1 was released

20 May 2017 Record high Btc price 1 BTC=2000 USD

30 May 2017 Poloniex an increase of more than 600% active traders online and regularly processed 640% more transactions.

1 June 2017 Btc symbol was encoded in Unicode version 10.0 at position U+20BF (₿) in the currency Symbols block.

11 June 2017 Record high Btc price 1 BTC=3000 USD

17 June 2017 Bitcoin core 0.14.2 was released

18 July 2017 Miuky Noda was murdered after a bitcoin meetup in Tokyo. Killer stole 100k Yen

26 July 2017 Alexander Vinnik arrested and charged with handling stolen Mt. Gox BTC and sending them to BTC-e

1 August 2017 1 BTC= 2787 USD,Btc hardfork, split into two derivative digital currencies, the bitcoin (BTC) chain with 1 MB blocksize limit and the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) chain with 8 MB blocksize limit.

24 August 2017 Nicolas Dorier created BTCpay server

24 August 2017 BIP 141,143,144 - Segwit was activated

3 September 2017 China banned ICOs.
 
4 September 2017 Ukranian man robbed for 50000 USD in BTC.

14 September 2017 Bitcoin core 0.15 was released 1 BTC= 3350.17 USD

15 September 2017 Beijing-based cryptocurrency exchanges forced to cease trading

19 September 2017 Bitcoin core 0.15.0.1 was released

27 September 2017 Draper bought 2000 Btc price: 400000 USD. Cardano launched.

1 October 2017 Segwit 10% of all network transactions

1 October 2017 Chinese exchange CHBTC was forced to close of regulatory reasons.

12 October 2017 Record high Btc price 1 BTC=5200 USD

16 October 2017 Swatting attack on Bitcoin security expert Jameson Lopp. A NY caller setup a false flag hostage situation. Attempted to blackmail Jameson Lopp for 50000 USD.

24 October 2017 Jeff Garziks company Bloq launched an Altcoin hard fork Bitcoin Gold

27 October 2017 A Grimsby house owner put his home for sale. Price 18 Bitcoin.

30 October 2017 Vietnam banned Bitcoin. Robberies of BTC traders in Toulouse and LA.

1 November 2017 A fault was found by British teenager Saleeem Rashid on crypto hardware wallet Ledger Nano S.

8 November 2017 SegWit2x was canceled

9 November 2017 Mailbombing attack on Bitcoin security expert Jameson Lopp. DDos attack against https://statoshi.info/

11 November 2017 Bitcoin core 0.15.1 was released

11 November 2017 Altcoin Bitcoin gold launched,linked to malware wallet mybtgwallet.com 

15 November 2017 Istanbul Buisnessman robbed of 2.8 mio USD in BTC.

28 November 2017 A study claimed 3 mil BTC had been lost. Bitcoin price 10000 USD for the first time as predicted by Draper.

29 November 2017 Elon Musk denied that he was Satoshi Nakamoto.

29 November 2017 Nigerians warned by government not to invest in cryptocurrencies.

1 December 2017 Icelanders stole 200 Asics

6 December 2017 NiceHash was hacked loss 4736.4 BTC

6 December 2017 Steam stopped accepting Bitcoin.

7 December 2017 Andreas M. Antonopoulos received 150 BTC in donations.

7 December 2017 1 BTC= 15500 USD

11 December 2017 CBOE Bitcoin Futures were launched

12 December 2017 Jeff Garzik created Alt coin United Bitcoin(UBTC)

17 December 2017 1 BTC= 19783,21 USD

17 December 2017 Alex Bosworth used Bitrefill & Lightning network to pay for a prepaid card.

25 december 2017 Raoul pal said bitcoin is a bubble

26 December 2017 Manager of Exmo Bitcoin exchange was kidnapped and held for ransom.