History of Bitcoin 2021

Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto

5 January 2021 1BTC=32587 USD

7 January 2021 Cryptocurrency market was worth more than 1 Trillion USD

8 January 2021 Number of BTC addresses holding at least 1000 btc was ATH.

8 January 2021 1 BTC=41478 USD  All time new high!

10 January 2021 1 BTC=39237 USD.Vulnerability found at Coinbase, that allowed bypassing Coinbase's multi-factor authentication SMS option

14 January 2021 Bitcoin Core version 0.21.0 released

15 January 2021 Victims of hacked exchange Mt.Gox could claim up to 90% of remaining btc.

18 January 2021 1 BTC=35278 USD

27 January 2021 Blockstream bought 25 mio USD  mining machines from MicroBT

28 January 2021 Marathon Patent Group (MARA) funded Jonas Schnelli.

31 January 2021 1 BTC=33000 USD

1 February 2021 Swiss canton of Zug allowed for tax payments in btc. Hb top exchange disappeared

6 February 2021 Cynthia Lummis,1st U.S. senator who publicly held btc - new financial regulatory

8 February 2021 Tesla bought 1.5 billion usd bitcoin and planned to accept btc as payment for future purchases,but later canceled the promise.Tesla holds 43200 BTC- New all time high 1 BTC=44489 USD

8 February 2021 German police seized more than €50 million in BTC, but could not access it because the suspect refused to reveal the password.

9 February 2021 Central Bank of Nigeria ordered banks to close down accounts associated with cryptocurrencies, policy started in 2017

10 February 2021 Europol arrested 10 people for SIM-swap attacks that stole over $100 mio in cryptocurrency from celebrities.

13 february 2021 Deutsche Bank rumored to explore cryptocurrency custody as a service.

14 february 2021 1 BTC= 47337 USD

19 february 2021 Bitcoin a Trillion USD asset

19 february 2021 OKCoin delisted Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV to avoid misleading investors.

21 february 2021 1 BTC= 58332 USD All time high

24 february 2021 Bitcoin Paper Wallet Back Door loss=124.85 btc

24 february 2021 MicroStrategy bought 19452 BTC at an average price of $52765. Held 90531 BTC.

27 february 2021 1 BTC= 47392 USD

1 March 2021 Gate.Io scam 

11 March 2021 Recife bank manager kidnapped and forced to transfer 4.78 BTC. Mt. Gox Mark Karpeles claimed rehabilitation plan was the best solution for creditors and better than a lawsuit.UniDax disappeared.

16 March 2021 Robbery of man in Munich to get bitcoin,loss 100000 euro

22 March 2021 Acer attempted cyber ransomed

24 March 2021 Tesla accepted Btc as payment in USA,later canceled.

25 March 2021 1 BTC=61556 USD All time high

29 March 2021 Coinbase fined 6.5 million usd fine to CFTC for allowing an unnamed employee to wash-trade Litecoin on Coinbase. The Satoshi, a cruise vessel was sold.

5 April 2021 Bitcoin’s Lightning Network = 10000 active Nodes  

7 April 2021 Ukranian government data report public officials have declared owning 46351 BTC

8 April 2021 Ukrainian bitcoin miner had to fire warning shots at looters.

10 April 2021 Lukki exchange scam.

12 April 2021 MicroStrategy planned to pay board members in btc.

13 April 2021 Home invasion in Canyon Meadows - crypto keys robbed

13 April 2021 1 BTC=63614 USD All time high

14 April 2021 Coinbase insiders sold 5 billion USD in shares during first day of trading.Fred Ersham the third sold Coinbase stocks for 457 USD mio

14 April 2021 Short BTC fund BITI – Inverse Bitcoin ETF launched 

16 April 2021 Turkey banned the use of btc for payments

18 April 2021 1 BTC=55271 USD

22 April 2021 Turkish crypto exchange Thodex exitscam

25 April 2021 1 BTC=49829 USD

10 May 2021 1 BTC=60166 USD

10 May 2021 Bitmart stolen hot wallet loss=150 mio USD

14 May 2021 Ransomware atttacks this year 81 mio USD

14 May 2021 Renaissance Technologies owned shares in MARA, RIOT & CAN.

17 May 2021 BKEX scam.

19 May 2021 Wells Fargo began offering btc investments.

20 May 2021 China negative attitude to mining and BTC trading 1BTC=30307 USD

21 May 2021 Greenpeace stopped accepting btc donations.

22 May 2021 Blockstream bought Adamant Capital,building Blockstream finance.

22 May 2021 Papa John's gave 10000 pizza slices on Bitcoin pizza day.

23 May 2021 1 BTC=37850 USD

24 May 2021 China planned to ban bitcoin mining.

26 May 2021 HitBtc exchange closed,scam withdrawals blocked.

29 May 2021 Iran banned bitcoin mining because of blackouts.

2 June 2021  The Father of "Bitcoin Toxicity'" Mircea Popescu drowned in Costa Rica

4 June 2021 Elon Musk tweeted negative about btc energy consumption. -7%. Miami’s crypto conference attendet by 50000 people.  

5 June 2021 1 BTC=36259 USD

10 June 2021 Highest 12 month inflation rate since 2008.

10 June 2021 El Salvador planned to adopt Bitcoin as currency.

10 June 2021 Okcoin donated 100000 usd to Brink.Gl21 approved by Danish Sec

12 June 2021 1 BTC=35528 USD

16 June 2021 Panama planned to adopt Bitcoin as currency. Brock pierce claimed during a bitcoin conference in El Salvador that he was bitcoin ambassador,but was called a scammer by a crowd of spectators.

18 June 2021 Sichuan government in China - local btc mining operations to shut down.Danske Bank warned against buying Bitcoin.

21 June 2021 Michael Saylor, Microstrategy bought 13005 btc

29 June 2021 London’s High Court commanded Bitcoin.org to remove the white paper as a result of a lawsuit initiated by Craig Wright

5 July 2021 Bitcoin.org was DDoS Attacked, Btc Demanded as Ransom

6 July 2021 "Bitcoin King" Claudio Oliveira was arrested,as the leader of a group who alleged to have embezzled R$1.5 billion

7 July 2021 1 BTC=33865 USD

23 July 2021 Amazon job ad seeking cryptodevs. Positive Btc price momentum

29 July 2021 U.S. clients of Compass Mining could avoid tax on btc they mine by buying mining hardware through individual retirement accounts.

31 July 2021 1 BTC=33865 USD

19 August 2021 Naomi Brockwell released a guide called How to live on Crypto

21 August 2021 1 BTC=49640 USD

1 September 2022 Elsalvadorian Bitcoin law critic Mario Gómez arrested without charge.

9 September 2021 El Salvador bought 21 mio usd in BTC.BTC legal in El Salvador

9 September 2021 1 BTC=46777 USD

16 September 2021 Twitter added Bitcoin tipping.

17 September 2021 Statue of Satoshi Nakamoto was unveiled in a park in Budapest,Hungary

23 September 2021 Front page of bitcoin.org was hacked, linked to Bitcoin doubler scam.

29 September 2021 Bitcoin Core 0.21.2 released

1 October 2021 Hackers bypassed Coinbase 2FA to steal from Coinbase customers

6 October 2021 Bitcoin set to become legal payment in Brazil

13 October 2021 Usa now biggest bitcoin miners,after Chinese ban.

15 October 2021 Valve banned crypto games and nfts.

20 October 2021 1 BTC=66685 USD All time high

21 October 2021 Jonas Schnelli stopped as a maintainer

22 October 2021 Walmart began selling Bitcoin at 200 local kiosks.

23 October 2021 CoinMarketCap was hacked, leak of 3117548 user email addresses.

28 october 2021 El Salvador bought 420 BTC

31 october 2021 Bitcoin white paper 13 years old

1 November 2021 1 BTC=61193 USD. El Salvador’s Chivo Bitcoin wallet was hacked 

2 November 2021 Siam Commercial Bank purchased a 51% stake in Bitkub

10 November 2021 1 BTC=69044 USD All time high. Movie tickets at AMC could be purchased with Bitcoin.EKX exchange disappeared.

11 November 2021 10 Exchanges: Kryptono,Multiswap,Cryptox,RightBTC,Hcoin exchange,Tidebit,Fintechonex,Burst asset exchange,Cash2PM disappeared.

14 November 2021 Taproot activated to give devs an expanded toolbox.Bip 340, 341 and 342 created by Jonas Nick,Tim Ruffing,Anthony Towns.Pieter Wuille

25 November 2021 1 BTC=58900 USD

28 November 2021 CFO of Celsius arrested

4 December 2021 1 BTC=45934 USD. El Salvador bought 150 BTC at 48760 USD

6 December 2021  Bitmart hacked loss=196 mio usd. Craig Wright sentenced to pay 100 mio usd in damages to Kleiman family.

10 December 2021 Samuel Dobson stopped as maintainer to complete his Phd in cryptography.John Newbery stopped as manager of Bitcoin Core pull requests and stopped as director of Brink.

18 December 2021 Javier Milei promoted Coinx World.

24 December 2021 SEC Rejected 2 Bitcoin Trusts.