History of Bitcoin 2022
2 January 2022 16223 cryptocurrencies available in the crypto market. 21 new launched every day.
5 January 2022 UK police had seized over 400 Mio usd in Bitcoin
6 January 2022 Power of btc network dropped because a shutdown of Kazakhstan's internet
9 January 2022 1 BTC=42354 USD
9 January 2022 LCX exchange tweeted that LCX’s technical team detected an unauthorized access on the LCX platform causing a loss of 7.94 million USD
9 January 2022 Norton 360 antivirus products installed a cryptocurrency mining program.
16 January 2022 In Memphis, someone smashed a gas station with a truck & stole a Btc ATM.
17 January 2022 Wikipedia planned banning cryptocurenncy donations.
18 January 2022 Crypto.com hacked,looted total 4836 ETH, 443.9 BTC and approximately 66200 USD other cryptos. Hacker managed to disable 2fa
21 January 2022 Russian central bank announced proposals to ban all crypto trading.3 men invaded a home in Hoboken, Belgium, failed to force owner to hand over 3 Mio Euros of BTC
23 January 2022 El Salvador bought 410 BTC
25 January 2022 According to New scientist quantumcomputers are not efffective to hack Btc.
26 January 2022 1 BTC=380555 USD.
27 January 2022 A hacker manipulated a smart contract bug on Binance-based Qubit Finance’s QBridge to mint wrapped eth tokens without depositing funds.Loss=80 million USD. FTX's American business was valued at 8 bio USD after raising 400 mio usd in cash from investors SoftBank and Temasek.
2 February 2022 IMF sent warning to El Salvador regarding Bitcoin investing. In Pune,India 8 people including a policeman was arrested for kidnapping a man to extort Btc. A hacker exploited Wormhole smart contracts on the Solana-to-Ethereum bridge to mint and cash out wrapped ether without depositing collateral.Loss=325 million USD
8 February 2022 Pybito hacked and blackmailed. Hackers accessed a IRA Financial Trust master key that bypassed all security measures to customer accounts. IRA Financial Trust sued Gemini, place the funds were kept, for negligence leading to the hack.Loss=37 mio USD
8 February 2022 Policed Seized $3.6 Billion in Btc stolen in the Bitfinex Hack.Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife Crocodile of Wall Street Heather Morgan, 31, were arrested in New York on charges of conspiracy to launder money and defraud.
19 February 2022 1 BTC=40236 USD
23 February 2022 Intel hosted conference Bonanza Mine: An Ultra-Low-Voltage Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC.Chivo pets opened.
24 February 2022 A vigilante activist had identified nearly 1000 Btc addresses believed to have been used in connection with Russian hacking activity regarding Russian Solarwinds attackers and groups pushing election disinformation. The vigilante took control of some of the wallets, and destroyied 300000 usd worth of Btc andy left messages in the transactions to backup allegations.The activity began shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. After the invasion, there was a halt in destroying Btc and began transferring it to BTC addresses identified for helping Ukrainie.
1 March 2022 Samson Mow left Blockstream to fund JAN3 to build Bitcoin city,El Salvador. 21 mio USD was funded by Alistair Milne of Atlanta digital currency fund, C. Wang of F2Pool & El Zonte Capital.Sabi exchange disappeared.
5 March 2022 Ukraine received 42 mio USD in cryptocurrencies.FTX Ventures invested 100 million USD in the Dave Spac
11 March 2022 Bitcoin ATMs declared Illegal in UK
16 March 2022 Ukraine legalized cryptocurrencies.Crypto expert shot by robber seeking to rob Richard Mille watch.
19 March 2022 1 BTC=41698 USD.
19 March 2022 Fake accounts used an infinite mint glitch to put up worthless collateral for Cashio’s CASH stablecoin. Loss=52 million USD.CASH stablecoin price collapsed.
28 March 2022 625 million USD - Biggest crypto phishing ever, 4 of 9 keys were snatched when an Axie infinity developer clicked on a fake job offer PDF.
3 April 2022 Bitcoin owner using a Trezor hardware wallet victim of a phishing scam.Loss USD 72000
4 April 2022 A survey: 50% of crypto buyers first bought digital assets in 2021.
8 April 2022 Blockstream & Block planned to mine btc using solar and storage technology from a Tesla 3.8 megawatt solar PV array and 12 megawatt-hour Megapack.
17 April 2022 Beanstalk hack.A hacker used flash loan, where crypto are borrowed and repaid in the same transaction, to accumulate enough assets to control the stablecoin’s governance protocol. Loss= 182 million USD.
21 April 2022 A Norrköping couple was home invaded and forced to transfer cryptocurrency.
22 April 2022 1 BTC=39699 USD.Binance, shared customer data with the Russian government
25 April 2022 Bitcoin core 23 released
28 April 2022 FTX held Crypto Bahamas conference, with attendance of Tom Brady, Kate Perry, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.Central African Republic approved Btc as legal currency.Finland Promised to donate mio of euros earned through selling confiscated Btc to Ukraine.
1 May 2022 Fort Worth,USA first city government to mine bitcoin.
3 May 2022 1 BTC=37605 USD
6 May 2022 The state of New York planned to ban new bitcoin mining operations.
6 May 2022 Argentinian central bank banned local banks from offering btc trading.
6 May 2022 Coinbase launched NFT marketplace,but few users and fewer transactions.
7 May 2022 1 BTC=35946 USD
9 May 2022 1 BTC=30037 Usd Btc down 50% since November 2021.Mining Capital Coin CEO indicted for running a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme. El Salvador bought 500 BTC
11 May 2022 Luna stablecoin crypto crash,coinbase stock price crash.1 BTC=29037 USD
12 May 2022 1 BTC=26265 Usd
13 May 2022 1 BTC=30323 Usd.Germany confirmed btc sold after one year is tax-free.
15 may 2022 Raoul Pal's Introduction to the Exponential Age over 2 mio views 15 may 2022
20 May 2022 12 men robbed an aluminum factory at Klang,Malaysia & stole 180 Btc ASICs.
23 May 2022 Gamestop launched wallet for cryptocurrencies & NFTs
27 May 2022 Deepfake of Elon Musk attempted to defraud people of BTC.
2 June 2022 Gemini fired 10% of personnel claimed Crypto Winter+ CFTC lawsuit against Gemini for making false or misleading statements pertaining to their self-certification of a bitcoin futures product.
7 June 2022 Binance Ico under investigation by SEC
7 June 2022 ApolloX hacked loss=1.6 mio - Signature system flaws
10 June 2022 1 BTC=30124 USD
12 June 2022 Online survey of over 28000 individuals from 20 nations to compare NFT consumption,revealed 64% of buyers were buying just to profit.
13 June 2022 1 BTC=22600 USD.Crypto meltdown.BTC-7%,ETH-13%,crypto market cap fell below 1 trillion usd for the first time since 2021.Binance temporarily stopped BTC withdrawals. Celsius blocked Withdrawals.MSTR Director Rickertsen bought 608000 usd of MSTR stock
14 June 2022 Blockfi and crypto.com fired people
16 June 2022 AEX+Babel Finance & Finblox paused withdrawals,Bill Gates claimed crypto & NFTs are based on the greater fool theory. Winklevoss brothers band Mars Junction first video on youtube
19 June 2022 Hoo announced pausing withdrawals.
20 June 2022 The energy consumption of the Bitcoin network (121 terawatt-hours (TWh). was 50 times less than that of regular banks.
21 June 2022 Cloudflare failure led to hours of non functional exchanges FTX, Bitfinex & OKX.Bybit fired people
22 June 2022 Kucoin and Bybit accused of operating unregistered platforms and offering unregistered securities to Ontarian investors.Voyager+Invictus Capital, reduced withdrawal limit, Skybridge Capital planned to file for a spot bitcoin ETF.
23 June 2022 1 BTC=20562.Coinbase shares fell almost 10% after Binance announced dropping certain trading fees for users.Bitget planned to double its workforce.Coinflex stopped withdrawals.Harmony Bridge,was hacked by Lazarus group. Hackers accessed 2 of the Binance and Ethereum bridge’s 5security keys, approving transactions siphoning assets from the bridge.Loss=100 million
24 June 2022 The Bored Ape restaurant Bored & Hungry stopped accepting crypto payments.Bitpanda fired people.
25 June 2022 Jordan Belfort(wolf of wall street) and Brian Rose held a crypto conference for two days,at a high price:24000 USD
27 June 2022 1 BTC=20756.Three Arrows Capital, defaulted on a 670 Million USD Loan
28 June 2022 Coinflex paused withdrawals because Roger Ver had not paid $47 mio USD debt, from a margin call of investment in Stablecoins. CEO+CFO of Compass Mining, both resigned after accusations from Dynamics Mining, that Compass owed them more than 600000 USD.
29 June 2022 Gary Gensler(SEC) said on CNBC that the only cryptocurrency, that would be accepted in with commodities was bitcoin.MicroStrategy purchased 480 btc price of 20817 USD.Jed McCaleb almost finished emptying his xrp wallet that held 81 million tokens worth 26 mio USD
30 June 2022 Coinbase delived geotracking data to ICE. Coca-cola launched a NFT.
1 July 2022 Bitcoin lost 38% in June to record 2nd biggest monthly loss since its debut in 2009. BlockFi agreed to an option to be acquired by FTX. Voyager Digital announced that they suspended trading, deposit and withdrawals.El Salvador bought 80 bitcoin.Silvergate capital lend Michael Saylor 250 mio usd to purchase btc
2 July 2022 1 BTC=19271.Three arrows capital bankruptcy, Valkyrie launched BTC miner fund
3 July 2022 Report published on illicit use of btc.
4 July 2022 Lending platforms Coinloan and Vauld halted withdrawals.Crypto.com Visa card had problem with withdrawals.
5 July 2022 Mirror Trading International scam 2018-2021 29400 bitcoin defrauded 23000 people who belieived that a trading robot could guarantee a 10% monthly return.
6 July Voyager Digital filed for bankruptcy.FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried declared that the crypto industry recession was nearly finished.
7 July 2022 2gether closed service for private accounts.Bitstamp introduced inactivity fee.Reddit began selling collectible avatars.
8 July. 2022 1 BTC=22135 USD. Pieter Wuille stopped as maintainer.4 people had commit access: Wladimir J. van der Laan, Marco Falke, Michael Ford and Hennadii Stepanov. Marathon holdings mined 707 bitcoin during Q2.holdings now 10055 btc. Blockchain.com announced that they could lose the 270 million usd in cryptocurrency and USD they loaned to Three Arrows Capital.
10 July 2022 1 BTC=20927 USD. In july USA installation of 641 out of the 710 crypto ATMs installed in the first 10 days of the month. Hackers used a flash loan attack to steal 1300 ETH from the NFT lending platform Omni.
11 July 2022 Phishing attack campaign, more than 70000 addresses connected to Uniswap pwned,single wallet lost more than 6.5 million USD worth of Crypto.
13 July 2022 Celsius Network filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy.
14 July 2022 Chainalysis reported that the amount of cryptocurrency flowing into mixer services had reached ath. OpenSea NFT marketplace fired 20% of staff.
15 July 2022 Vladimir Putin banned all digital payments in Russia. Coinbase planned terminating affiliate program.
16 July 2022 1 BTC=20715 USD
17 July 2022 Police shut down the AEX crypto exchange.
18 July 2022 Skybridge Capital suspended redemptions from Legion Strategies fund.Binance fined 3.3 mio USD by DNB for operating in Netherlands without required registration. Bexplus closed,users had only 24 hours to withdraw.
20 July 2022 Police in South Korea raided Bithumb,Upbit, and Coinone. The detectives were looking for evidence regarding Do Kwon.Zipmex halted withdrawals.Tesla Q2 report declared that it sold about 75% of Bitcoin holdings.Minecraft said no to NFTs.4 armed masked men robbed Vkusvill Supermarket, Kuchino, Russia and looted 100 GPUs.
21 July 2022 1 Btc=22980 USD.Former Coinbase product manager charged by SEC,Crime: tipping friends about tokens that were about to be listed on Coinbase.
23 July 2022 An attacker was able to create and pass a governance proposal to transfer out 18.5 million AUDIO tokens from the community treasury. They then successfully swapped these for 705 ETH (~$1.1 million)
26 July 20221 BTC=20978 USD. Coinbase stock opened 14% lower at the start of the trading session,Coinbase had problems with bad reputation and regulatory uncertainty.
1 august 2022 1 BTC=23084 USD. Craig Wright claimed he created bitcoin. But a court judge ruled that Wright had given "deliberately false evidence" in a libel case and awarded him 1 pound in damages after he sued McCormack for alleging that his claim to be S.Nakamoto was false. Bitcoin Valley opened in Santa Lucia,Honduras.Vitalik Buterin called Michael Saylor a clown.Tokok exchange closed because of business reasons.
2 August 2022 MicroStrategy reported 1 Billion USD Loss, CEO resigned to Focus on Btc.
7 August 2022 In Vrindavan Yojana, India 3 men kidnapped a realtor for 8 BTC.
8 August 2022 Crypto crash caused Nvidia to miss Q2 Projections by $1.4 Billion USD.101 NFT Discord servers compromised in July
10 August 2022 Coinbase stopped sending price notifications to customers during celsius meltdown.
12 August 2022 Point72 Asset Management,began setting up a cryptocurrency specific asset manager to trade spot cryptocurrencies.
13 August 2022 1 BTC =24440 USD.Mailchimp banned crypto companies according to their new no-crypto policy
15 August 2022 Galaxy Digital canceled proposed acquisition of BitGo.Bitgo prepared lawsuit.Eqonex closed
18 August 2022 Crypto.com fired people.South Korean SEC reported 16 unregistered crypto exchanges serving Koreans. Exchanges were MEXC, KuCoin, CoinW, CoinEX, ZB.com,Bitglobal, Bitrue, Poloniex, BTCEX, Phemex, XT.com, Pionex, BTCC, DigiFinex, AAX, & ZoomEX.Hoo exchange scam blocked withdrawals.
19 August 2022 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation sent cease and desist notices to the FTX US crypto exchange and 4 web domains that FDC alleged were falsely claiming their products were FDIC-insured. Swyftx fired 20% of the workforce.
20 August 2022 1 BTC=21302 USD
23 August 2022 Hackers impersonated Binance CCO in a series of video calls with several representatives of cryptocurrency projects. The attackers used an AI hologram.
25 August 2022 Coinswitch raided by Indian SEC
26 August 2022 Forbes published research paper concluding that more than half of all reported trading volume was likely to be fake or non-economic. Forbes estimated the global daily bitcoin volume for the industry was $128 billion on June 14. That is 51% less than the $262 billion one would get by taking the sum of self-reported volume from multiple sources.
30 August 2022 Faruk Fatih Özer, the Thodex CEO scammer was finally busted after one year on the run.Bitkub CTO fined 234000 USD for insider info.
31 August 2022 Microstrategy sued for tax evasion
1 September 2022 265000 USD of user funds was stolen from Kyberswap exchange.FTX invested 100 million USD in Mysten Labs
3 September 2022 A year after El Salvador's BTC adopting,a poll by a local university found 71% of respondents said Bitcoin law did not improve their family's finances.
4 September 2022 Mark Hopkins, aka "Doctor Bitcoin" or "Rizzn", announced that he was going to jail between 6 and 15 months for illegally operating a cash to cryptocurrency conversion operation.
5 September 2022 Poolin suspended withdrawals from their wallet service
7 September 2022 VBit Technologies/Advanced Mining Group, an alleged btc mining company had defrauded investors of 11 mio usd
8 September 2022 Queen Elizabeth 2s death resulted in the creation of 40 memecoins & multiple Queen Elizabeth-themed NFT collections,Coinbase lawsuit against Treasury Department over Tornado Cash sanctions.
11 September 2022 1 BTC=21605 USD
14 September 2022 South Korea issued arrest warrant for Terra founder Do Kwon.
19 September 2022 Uk Financial Authority issued warning that FTX was not authorized in UK.
20 September 2022 Wintermute hacked loss=160 mio usd
22 September 1 BTC=19024 USD. Compute North filed for bankruptcy.Aiden Pleterski aka Crypto King and his company was confronted with civil lawsuits after 140 people had invested a combined sum of 35 mio USD with Pleterski.
23 september 2022 youtube debate: problems with Bitcoin between Plain Bagel & Aswath Damodaran
24 september 2022 Coinbase sued for patent infringement. Coinbase users, suffered a 6 hour outage in which they could not accept payments or make withdrawals involving U.S. bank accounts.
26 september 2022 Nexo received a cease and desist lawsuits from 8 Us states, Nexo had previously been warned and are now receiving fines.
29 september 2022 Elon Musk planned a blockchain based Twitter
30 september 2022 A misconfigured node took the entire Solana network offline
2 October 2022 1 BTC=19257 USD
3 October 2022 Kim Kardashian fined 1.26 mio USD for promoting a crypto without disclosure.
5 October 2022 39.6 million USD in crypto seized by Korea belonging to Do Kwon.
6 October 2022 CEO Alex Mashinsky & CSO Daniel Leon & CTO Nuke Goldstein sold $42 Mio USD in altcoins before bankruptcy.Celsius also exposed the names of all customers and their recent transactions in a court filing.Binance Smart Chain halted after 127 usd mio exploit.
7 October 2022 Binance hacked=570 mio. usd. Decentraland had 38 active users.The Sandbox had 522.
10 October 2022 1 BTC=19219 USD.
11 October 2022 Bittrex was fined 29 million USD for sanctions violations. CNN accused of dishonest practice after they canceled the Vault NFT project
17 October 2022 Texas state securities board began investigating FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried for possible securities violations. BitKeep wallet exploited for USD 1 mio of BNB. Bitcoin Failed to produce 1 block for over an hour.
18 October 2022 Unstoppable Domains disabled .coin extensions.
19 October 2022 Aaron Lovine, a former Celsius employee was hired by JP Morgan as director of crypto regulations
20 October 2022 Argentina’s tax agency arrested 40 people after 70 raids on unregistered crypto mining operations.
21 October 2022 1 BTC=19069 USD. CORZ and ARBK were downgraded from buy to neutral by analyst Chris Brendler.
22 October 2022 FTX users reported losing millions of USD in 3Commas automated trading bot on FTX in a phishing scam or regular theft.One user wrote a loss of 104 BTC.FTX CEO Bankman-Fried wrote that FTX would compensate the affected victims for 6 million USD.
23 oct 2022 Freeway halted withdrawals, customers had USD 100 million assets frozen.
27 oct 2022 Core Scientific Bitcoin miner warned of missed payments, possible bankruptcy
28 oct 2022 Singapore planned to require buyers take a test before trading Cryptocurrencies. Do Kwon sued fo 57 mio USD.Lugano and El Salvador signed an economic agreement based on adoption of btc.Former hacked exchange Coincheck planned Nasdaq listing.
30 October 2022 1 BTC=20799 USD.
1 November 2022 Crypto exchange Deribit hacked loss=28 million USD
2 November 2022 CoinDesk reported a leaked balance sheet that presented evidence that Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried's hedge fund, was extremely dependent on FTX's exchange token, FTT.Iris Energy Bitcoin mining firm close to defaulting on loans of 103 mio.
4 November 2022 Man found guilty of 50676 Btc Silk Road September 2012 heist.
6 November 2022 1 BTC=21201 usd.Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced liquidating their FTT holdings.
7 November 2022 FTX Ceo Sam Bankman-Fried said "FTX is fine. Assets are fine".
9 November 2022 1 BTC=16578 USD FTX insolvency and Altcoin massacre,FTT native token of FTX exchange fell over 80%, a 93% reduction in the wealth of the Ceo of FTX.
10 November 2022 1 BTC=17403 USD.Positive inflation numbers,Nasdaq 7% rise. FTX reopened withdrawals and promised that US customer funds were safe.Bahamas SEC froze FTX assets, appointed a liquidator.DFX Finance suffered a 5 million USD loss.Blockfi suspended withdrawals.
11 November 2022 Ftx declared bankrupcy FTX Users desperately attempted to circumvent FTX withdrawal freeze with bribes and NFTs
12 November 2022 FTX claimed the exchange was hacked 600 mio usd was withdrawn
13 November 2022 1 BTC=16584 USD Ftx bankrupcy explained by Professor Patrick Boyle. Police in the Bahamas announced that they would investigate FTX .
15 November 2022 Bankman-Fried continued to plead with investors for money to cover the firm's losses and tweeted that he was "meeting in-person with regulators and working with the teams to do what we can for customers'.Digital Surge suspended withdrawals.SALT crypto lender halted service.
16 November 2022 El Salvador, announced that the government planned to buy 1 Btc every day starting on 17 November 2022.Class action lawsuit against Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, Steph Curry, Shaquille O'Neal, David Ortiz, Naomi Osaka, and Larry David for promoting FTX.Nestcoin had a majority of funds locked in FTX and fired people.
17 November 2022 Gemini Trust, said redemptions by customers for its Earn program were delayed after its partner Genesis Global & Coinhouse halted withdrawals.
20 November 2022 John Ray new Ceo of FTX claimed that the situation was worse than the enron scandal
22 November 2022 1 BTC=16081 USD.More Than 50% of Bitcoin addresses were in loss,this was the first time since the coronavirus crash of March 2020.Matthew Ferranti released a research paper advicing central banks to buy Bitcoin
23 November 2022 Cryptocurrencies and NFTs was disallowed from Grand Theft Auto online's role-playing servers.
24 November 2022 Argentinean exchange Lemon Cash announced that they had fired around 100 people.Coinlist blocked withdrawals.
25 November 2022 Binance announced a new proof of reserves (PoR) website to prove that it held clients crypto.
28 November 2022 Blockfi bankrupt, Coinsquare was hacked.
30 November 2022 1 BTC=17052 usd.Brazil legalized bitcoin as a method of payment.Binance bought Japanese exchange Sakura.
3 December 2022 AAX Nigerian customers attacked AAX staff physical,because of denial of withdrawals.
4 December 2022 Bybit fired people
5 December 2022 Gemini Tried recovering $900 Mio USD from Lending company Genesis.Sam Bankman-Fried claimed that he would testify before Congress on FTX crash.Swyftx fired people. Jim Cramer advised investors to exit crypto.Tim Draper forecasted in late 2022 that BTC would reach 250K USD in 2023,Standard Chartered projected Bitcoin, as low as 5000 USD sometime during 2023
6 December 2022 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission began investigating several crypto companys over deceptive or misleading altcoin advertising.Telegram 1 mio subs.
7 December 2022 1 BTC=16825 USD.Russian central bank supported an idea of legalizing the crypto mining business, but only if miners sold coins to non-residents of Russia.
8 December 2022 Sam Bankman-Fried rumored to be charged for market manipulation.Coinbase CEO said Revenue was falling 50%.Lawsuit against Jimmy Fallon, Paris Hilton, Justin Bieber, Gwyneth Paltrow accused of undisclosed NFT promotions
9 December 2022 Sec issued a new guidance, requiring firms that issue securities to disclose their exposure and risk to the cryptocurrency market.Sam Bankman-Fried should testify to senate about Ftx crash.Michael McCaffrey,ceo of block resigned after revelations that he had loaned 43 mio usd from Sam Bankman-Fried.
12 December 2022 Bitcoin Core 24.0.1 released.Alameda Research had unlimited access to FTX customer funds.Btc miner Argo Blockchain faced possible bankruptcy,U.S. Doj was considering filing criminal charges against Binance
13 December 2022 Binance processed 1.9 billion USD in withdrawals in a day, a considerably higher amount than usual,customers were scared of losing funds.
15 December 2022 1 BTC=17417 USD Sam Bankman-Fried arrested and charged.Microsoft banned mining cryptocurrency on online cloud services.
16 December 2022 The Binance audit,which had been hosted on accounting firm Mazar's website had been deleted. Mazar stopped working with Binance, KuCoin & Crypto.Democratic party said that the party would set aside more than 1 mio usd received in contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried to return the money to FTX customers as part of ongoing legal proceedings.Members of management of FTX formed a chat group called "Wirefraud" and were using it to send secret info about operations in the lead up to the company's crash. OneCoin cofounder pleaded guilty to 4 Billion usd fraud
19 december 2022 The U.S. senate's banking committee chairman "said federal agencies need to address the cryptocurrency market and 'maybe' ban it,"Binance US to purchase bankrupt Voyager digital's assets for 1 Billion USD.
20 december 2022 1 BTC=16884.100 bitcoins tied to the defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX were transferred out of cold wallets.
21 december 2022 Core Scientific declared bankruptcy.FTX's co founder Gary Wang and Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison pleaded guilty to fraud charges and began cooperating with New York law enforcement in the case against Sam Bankman-Fried who would be extradited from Bahamas to USA.
22 december 2022 North Korean hackers had stolen an estimated 1.2 billion USD in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past 5 years, more than half of it in 2022.Omni Matrix lost a lawsuit against Bank Norwegian with a demand that the bank stopped cancelling payments with credit cards.Sam Bankman-Fried couldl be released on a 250 million usd bond package. People at Almeda and ftx pleaded guilty
24 december 2022 Sitiveni Rabuka, became the first pro bitcoin Fijian prime minister.
27 december 2022 Bitcoin hashrate dropped 40% as a US storm unplugged Miners. Midas Investments,a cryptocurrency platform, announced that they shut down operations and would deduct 55% from most customer accounts to balance assets and liabilities
28 december 2022 FTX customers filed a class action lawsuit against FTX'. Sam Bankman-Fried had borrowed from Alameda to purchase Hood shares. Some wallets associated with Alameda Research, were seen transferring out funds just days after Sam Bankman Fried was released. FTX 100 million investment round in September for Mysten Labs, a Web3 compan
29 december 2022 1 BTC=16568 USD. A research paper named “Crypto wash trading” was published by NBER. Using statistical and behavioral patterns to determine which transactions were legal or not, the study was on 29 unregulated exchanges and came to the conclusion that, on average, over 70% of the volume within the platforms were wash trades.
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