History of Bitcoin 2018

1 January 2018 SpaceBTC,Bter,Brighton peak disappeared.

3 January 2018 Robbery in Milwaukee, BTC trade ended in violence.

7 January 2018 Hacker E.Pinsky used SIM-swapping and hacked crypto wallet of Terpin

14 January 2018 Robbery of Pavel Nyashin,St.Petersburg,Russia.Loss=425000 USD. 

15 January 2018 Russian gang stole 100000 Euros in BTC from Russian couple at Phuket
 
15 January 2018 Jeff Garzik began repurposing Segwit2x project

15 January 2018 Canadian KFC accepted Bitcoin payments.BCC Exchange(Bitconnect) scam

16 January 2018 Payments via Lightning network available on Blockstream shop.

18 January 2018 Hong Kong Btc trader lured to a fake meeting and robbed of 1.4 mio HKD.

19 January 2018 Bitcoin Farm game released by RewindApp.

22 January 2018 South Korea made a regulation that requires all the BTC buyers to reveal their identity.

23 January 2018 A failed armed robbery attempt of Canadian bitcoin exchange

24 January 2018 Stripe announced that it would stop support btc payments by late April 2018.

25 January 2018 George Soros referred to bitcoin as a bubble

26 January 2018 Coincheck was hacked(400 mil USD)

31 January 2018 Eos launched.

2 February 2018 Bitgrail hacked.

5 February 2018 LLoyds Bank banned Bitcoin

9 February 2018 Corrupt Indian cops extorted 200 BTC from Amreli Businessman.

20 February 2018 MonteCrypto The Bitcoin Enigma game released by Gem Rose Accent

21 February 2018 In Taichung, Taiwan 4 men assaulted bitcoin seller & robbed 18 BTC

23 February 2018 2 Brutal robberies in Moscow against crypto owners.300 BTC robbed.

26 February 2018 Bitcoin core 0.16 was released BIP173 - Bech32 addresses

28 February 2018 Bitcoin Big Bang : L'improbable épopée de Mark Karpelès was released

1 March 2018 Segwit 30% of all network transactions

5 March 2018 11 Icelanders arrested for stealing computer equipment to mine BTC.

14 March 2018 Jameson Loop began at Casa, hardware security company

15 March 2018 Jack Dorsey invested 2.5 million USD in Lightning labs.

21 March 2018 Usa Goverment tracking of BTC owners. Began in 2013

22 March 2018 1 BTC= 8678 USD

23 March 2018 Reddit removed Bitcoin as payment option for Reddit Gold

25 March 2018 Bitstamp was sold for 400 million USD to South Korean investor

27 March 2018 Danske Bank banned Bitcoin transactions.

29 March 2018 Chinese Central Bank was critical on Bitcoin, it could be a threat to the Yuan.

31 March 2018 3 million Japanese traded and held cryptocurrencies.

1 April 2018 1 BTC= 6923 USD,Coinsmarket exchange scam

4 April 2018 Silicon Valley Jewelers often received bitcoin as payment for jewelry.

6 April 2018 India banned purchase of bitcoin via banks

6 April 2018 Mike Hearn criticized Bitcoin Cash.

9 April 2018 17000 Indians signed petition against the Indian cryptocurrency ban.Coinsecure hacked.

11 April 2018 1 BTC= 6959 USD .Ryan Rice,Florida shot a Btc buyer in self defense

12 April 2018 Russian police arrested 2 people at Orenburg for stealing power for 600000 rubles to run a cryptocurrency mining facility.

13 April 2018 An Islamic scholar declared Bitcoin Sharia law compliant.

13 April 2018 Coinsecure an Indian exchange was hacked loss=438 BTC

14 April 2018 1 BTC= 7951 USD, Jihan Wu from Bitmain planned to mine in Washington state.

15 April 2018 Bitcoin had forked 69 times

19  April 2018 5 men arrested in Tokyo for selling counterfeit money for Bitcoin

20  April 2018 1 BTC= 8834 USD

30  April 2018 BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes admitted to operating a secret, for-profit, second business on his own exchange that profited from his customers’ liquidations.

10 May 2018 Jyske Bank banned bitcoin tranasctions

6 June 2018 A Milan citizen was robbed by robbers that attempted btc purchase with counterfeit money. Loss=50000 euros

13 June 2018 Home invasion of "Synth",China a Skycoin dev loss=18.88 BTC and 6466 SKY

30 June 2018 Tezos launched.

9 July 2018 1 Million computers in China infected with malware to mine crypto

23 July 2018 CoinEx Market scam.

25 July 2018 Tron launched.

29 July 2018 Bitcoin core 0.16.2 released

25 August 2018 Tottenham, Leicester & Brighton agreed to bitcoin sponsorship.

18 September 2018 Bitcoin core 0.16.3 released

20 September 2018 David Jaenson discovered a vulnerability in the source code. Fixed fast.

20 September 2018 Zaif was hacked.

28 September 2018 Bitcoin core 0.14.3 and 0.15.2 released

3 October 2018 Bitcoin core 0.17.0 released

3 October 2018 G4S began offering crypto custody service

28 October 2018 Maplechange exchange scam.

30 October 2018 Bitcoin core 0.17.1 released

1 November 2018 1 BTC=6341 USD

3 November 2018 Zombie Bitcoin Defense game released

13 November 2018 Bitcoin game released on steam

14 November 2018 Jameson Lopp CTO of Casa 

14 November 2018 REACT arrested Truglia in NY because a 1 million usd SIM-swap heist 

15 November 2018 Changepro exchange scam.

30 November 2018 Bitpay copay wallet hacked.Thirdparty JavaScript library modded.

30 November 2018 80% of bitcoin mining used renewables

30 November 2018 Intel won a patent on efficient mining SHA-256 algorithm

1 December 2018 1 BTC=3964 USD

11 December 2018 Cubits hacked.

25 December 2018 Bitcoin Core version 0.17.1 released.