History of Bitcoin 2024
01012024 In the morning huge Bitcoin volume trading due to Bitcoin ETF. Because of Ordinals, Bitcoin fees skyrocketed to the benefit of Bitcoin miners. Source: https://mempool.space/
02012024 1 BTC=45837 USD,price up 160% in 2023.Highest price in 21 months.MSTR Michael Saylor began to sell 216 million usd worth of stock options of the company. Largest corporate holder of btc 189000 BTC.Jim Cramer bullish on BTC.Radiant Capital lending protocol hacked for 4.5 million usd
03012024 1 BTC=42740 USD.Arkinvest sold 166183 Coinbase-2.9 shares from ARKK and ARKW
04012024 1 BTC=44350 USD,Mara+12,7,coinbase+2,2.South Korea's Financial Services Commissios proposed a ban on using credit cards to purchase cryptocurrency,ARK Invest filed for Bitcoin ETF registration.founder of Ace Exchange was arrested for allegedly committing fraud using cryptocurrencies.Loss=6.4 mil usd. Taiwanese police confiscated 3.5 million usd.
05012024 Mara-8.2%
08012024 1 BTC=47400 USD +7%,mara+7.7 Bitcoin Rodney was arrested and charged in USA for his alleged role in promoting the Hyperverse crypto scheme.
9012024 SEC announced fake tweet about an the announcement about bitcoin ETFs on social media was incorrect, and that its X account was compromised. "The SEC's @SECGov X account has been compromised. The unauthorized tweet regarding bitcoin ETFs was not made by the SEC . Crypto wallet with 1 BTC is onboard the lunar rocket Vulcan Centaur. The space vehicle launched from Cape Canaveral and was set to reach the moon.
10012024 Phoenix Group PLC invested 187 million usd to purchase bitmain mining hardware
11012024 1 BTC=49017 USD.11 ETFs (ARKB),(FBTC),(EZBC),(BTCO),(HODL),(BTCW),(GBTC),(DEFI)(IBIT)(BITB)(BRRR) tied to spot price of btc began trading in USA.Apple delisted a dozen global crypto apps relied by traders in India, in part due to its tax evasive properties. .Mara-12.6
12012024 1 BTC=42843 USD(-6.1),Mara-15,3%,Coin-7.35%.Hayat Faizi sentenced for bitcoin related scam. CoinShares planned to acquire Valkyrie Funds
21122023 El Salvador launched a Btc Freedom visa for foreigners who invest 1 million usd in BTC.
11012024 In Rosario, Argentina, a local landlord and a tenant sealed a rental agreement where the tenant would pay monthly rent in Btc.
16012024 MARA closed acquisition of 2 Btc mining sites with 390 mw total capacity. Binance opened to the general public in Thailand. Daily volume of the 10 spot Btc ETFs had more than 3 times outpaced the total volume for all 500 ETFs launched in 2023 on the same day.Mining firm Core Scientific CORZ had been given court approval to emerge from bankruptcy and relist shares.
17012024 12% of El Salvadoran citizens used Btc for purchases in 2023.ProShares launched UltraShort Bitcoin ETF, ProShares Short Bitcoin ETF and ProShares ShortPlus Bitcoin ETF, ProShares Plus Bitcoin ETF and ProShares Ultra Bitcoin ETF
18012024 Stablecoins enabled 40 Billion usd in crypto crime since 2022
25012024 1 BTC=39829 USD
26012024 IBIT Bitcoin ETF now 2 Billion USD in market cap. Florida and Alaska canceled Binance.US after Changpeng Zhao’s guilty plea. Lawyer responsible for money laundering through OneCoin sentenced to 10 years in prison
30012024 1 BTC=43386 USD. German police confiscated 50000 bitcoin (USD 2 billion) from the operators of Movie2k.
31012024 Cache of code, infrastructure diagrams, passwords belonging to Binance had been on a gitHub repository for months.Mara held 15741 BTC+ Cash & BTC OF 1 Billion USD
02022024 1 BTC=43061 USD.Over 2% of the USA's electricity generation wents to Btc.
06022024 Solana down for five hours.
08022024 1 BTC=45369 USD.Mara+23.1%
11022024 1 BTC=47767 USD
12022024 Mara+14.2%.Duelbits crypto casino exploited for 4.6 million USD
14022024 1 BTC=51651 USD.Highest price in 2 years. iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), surpassed 100000 BTC under management. Bitcoin miner stock gains outpaced the price of Bitcoin.
16022024 Coinbase donated 3.6 million usd to Brink.
18022024 FixedFloat exchange hacked loss=26 mio usd
19022024 1 BTC=51858 USD.
22022024 Joana Cotar invited german politicians to “Bitcoin im Bundestag"
23022024 Martti Malmi, published 120 pages of email correspondences on GitHub.
25022024 1 BTC=51401 USD.
18022024 FixedFloat decentralized cryptocurrency exchange exploited for 409 BTC and 1728 ETH total loss 26 million usd.
26022024 440000 usd stolen MicroStrategy's Twitter account was hacked .BitForex closed off website after 57 million usd withdrawal
27022024 1 BTC=57067 USD.Texan federal judge granted temporary order blocking the U.S. government from monitoring energy usage of crypto mining operations
28022024 1 BTC=68822 USD. Hut 8 began buildinh a 63 MegaWattt crypto mining site in Texas. During IPO filing with the SEC, Reddit disclosed investment in bitcoin, ether and Polygon
29022024 1 BTC=61265 USD.Gemini agreed to return 1.1 billion usd to customers who lost money in bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Genesis.Mara-16.5.Citron short Coinbase stock.
01032024 2.3 Billion USD worth of Bitcoin left exchanges. One of the biggest withdrawals in over 5 years.
04032024 Microstrategy planned to raise 600 million USD to buy more Bitcoin.
05032024 1 BTC=69191 USD.New ATH.Deutsche Börse launched crypto trading platform
06032024 Bitcoin and gold broke new price records on the same day .Binance temporarily suspended Solana network withdrawals, claimed increased volume. Hut 8 stock crash and the shut down of a Canadian btc mining site,it attracted investor lawsuit. Cryptocurrency ownership now 420 million digital currency users worldwide. 37% of cryptocurrency ownerss were women. Bitcoin ETFs suggested added to state retirement portfolios in Arizona. SEC would accept a settlement offer by ShapeShift, which included a 275000 usd fine and an agreement that the company would no longer violate the Securities Exchange Act.
7032024 Spain blocked Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project Worldcoin
8032024 1 BTC=70136 USD
9032024 Crypto4Winners claimed funds were stolen.Firm was co-owned by Luc
Schiltz, who was sentenced to 6 years in jail in 2017 for scamming over
1.5 million usd through various investment frauds. He was released
early only after 2 years, and began the Crypto4Winners
11032024 1 BTC=71911 USD. Incognito Market drug marketplace exitscam and extortion loss 10 million usd.Eyeball scanning startup Worldcoin failed to get an injunction against a temporary suspension in Spain.
12032024 2 executives from Binance was arrested in Nigeria for allegedly destabilizing the national currency.Founder of crypto-mixer Bitcoin Fog, convicted of money laundering in a US Court.
13032024 U.S. Attorney Massachusetts wanted to confiscate 2.3 million USD from 2 Binance accounts. Those accounts had received cryptocurrency from at least 37 American victims, 1 based in Massachusetts who lost 400000 USD to the romance scammers.
14032024 1 BtC=72745 USD ATH.Crypto.com fined 2.85 million euro by Dutch central bank for operating without registration
15032024 A judge in the UK High Court had declared that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto. Crypto open patent alliance, a nonprofit consortium of crypto companies, asked the court to declare that Wright is not Satoshi.
19032024 Agressive selling by many accounts able to flash crash btc price on BitMEX exchange from 66000 usd price to 8900 USD.Microstrategy bought 9245 BTC for 623 million usd.
200232024 Dolomite exchange exploited loss=1.8 million usd.SEC launched investigation into Ethereum Foundation.
24032024 1 BTC=65019 USD
26032024 1 BTC=70279 USD
26032024 Stronghold Digital Mining a bitcoin mine in Pennsylvania was sued and claims were made that the operation burned waste coal and old tires for energy and was polluting nearby communities with dangerous chemicals. KuCoin was indicted by U.S. authorities for conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and violating bank secrecy
27032024 SEC had made adequate allegations that Coinbase engaged in “the unregistered offer and sale of securities,” meaning that Coinbase’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit had been partially denied. Texan bitcoin miners moved operation to the Andes mountains in Argentina to mine bitcoin using flared natural gas.Phoenix Global was providing the gas and Giga was supplying the equipment.
28032024 Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years prison for fraud.U.S. and U.K. began investigating more than 20 billion usd worth of USDT transactions that have passed through Garantex a Russian exchange. CleanSpark(CLSK) fell 8.2% in after-hours trading after offering agreement to sell up to 800 million usd stock.Over half of U.S. charities now accepted receiving donations in Btc.Kerrisdale Capital was short MicroStrategy-11.1 stock and long bitcoin.
29032024 UK judge approved the freezing of 6 million UKP worth of assets belonging to Craig Wright, who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
30032024 1 BTC=70033 USD
31032024 Block held 8038 BTC
02042024 1 BTC=65201 USD.FixedFloat exchange hacked second time loss=2.8 mio usd.Spot Bitcoin ETF trading volume tripled in March to 111 billion usd.
03042024 The world's first memecoin pre-announced as a rugpull do not buy this coin, as it will go to zero.Despite that, somebodye sent 8.8 ETH (29000 USD) for the project's pre-sale.
05042024 Paraguay proposed a temporarily ban on crypto mining and related activities claimed illegal crypto mines were stealing power and interrupted electricity.Do Kwon & Terraform found guilt for 40 billion usd fraud.
07042024 Bored Ape fast food restaurant shut down.
08042024 1 BTC=72088 USD ath
12042024 Aussie sec confiscated 41 million usd from mining group NGS Crypto, NGS Digital and, NGS Group in Australia for operating without a license.The BingX allowed sanctioned Iranian users to evade restrictions.
13042024 US hacker convicted of looting 12 million usd of crypto from 2 decentralized exchanges(DEXs):Nirvana Finance+Crema Finance was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Winklevoss twins joined as owners of Real Bedford Football Club investing 4.5 million usd of Bitcoin
14042024 1 BTC=64560 USD
15042024 Bitcoin halving reduced the Bitcoin mining reward to 3.175 BTC per block Landesbank Baden-Württemberg offered crypto services to institutional clients beginning in second half of 2024 in a partnership with Bitpanda.
17042023 Nebraskan man indicted on charges of a cryptojacking operation that scammed 2 cloud services out of 3.5 million usd.
18042023 1 BTC=61236 USD.
19042023 Bitcoin’s market cap was 55% of crypto market.Binance executive remained in Nigerian jail as bail appeal failed. Akira, a ransomware group, breached more than 250 organizations and extracted 42 million usd in ransom and began targeting linux servers. Hedgey Finance exploited loss=44.7 million usd.
20042023 4th Bitcoin halving.10 spot Bitcoin ETFs combined increased holdings by 220000 BTC. ZKasino scam loss=33 mio USD
22042023 1 BTC=66516 USD
23042024 CommEx shut down.
24042024 1 BTC=64689 USD. Australia now had 1002 Bitcoin ATMs. Samourai Wallet founders charged over crypto mixer operations.
25042024 Stripe announced that customers could now accept cryptocurrency payments, OP_CAT was granted Bitcoin Improvement Proposal number 327
2904024 1 BTC=62249 USD. Boston Consulting Group, predicted that the crypto industry would reach 1 billion users in 2030.
01052024 1 BTC=57388 USD.-16% in april
10052024 1 BTC=61294 USD
15052024 1 BTC=64371 USD.MIT Students looted 25 Million usd exploiting Ether blockchain bug
22052024 1 BTC=70110 USD.Worldcoin ordered to stop operations in Hong Kong
23052024 SEC leader Gary Gensler mentioned report from Chainalysis that “widespread noncompliance” from crypto firms had resulted in fraud and bankruptcies. 18 Mio Americans used or owned crypto in 2023.Metaplanet, shares up 158% last week, Metaplanet accumulated 117.7 Btc.
24052024 Bitcoin whitepaper back on Bitcoin.org website.
25052024 Normie memecoin exploit loss=882000 usd.
31052024 1 BTC=67532 USD.DMM Bitcoin hacked for of 4502.9 bitcoin, loss=305 million usd. Paraguay seized 2738 ASICs as power theft crackdown continued.
2062024 Velocore contract vulnerability loss=6.8 mio usd in etherium.
3062024 1 BTC=69425 USD
4062024 Lykke exchange hacked for over 23 million USD.
05062024 Kerrisdale Capital released a short-seller report on Riot Platforms
07062024 1 BTC=69261 USD.BTC Fee 520 sats per transaction(50 to 52 USD) Semler Scientific held 828 Bitcoin and a 150 Mio usd plan to buy more.
09062024 Loopring etherium wallet hacked loss=5 million USD.
10062024 UwU defi Lend hacked for 20 million usd.
11062024 1 BTC=66616 USD.Thailand SEC decided Zipmex should stop as a crypto exchange and broker.Australia prohibited crypto for online gambling.BTC ETF outflow in 19 days.
12062024 1 BTC=69779 USD
20062024 Australian securities exchange approved the Vaneck Btc ETF to start trading
21062024 Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss donated 1 mio in Bitcoin to Republican president candidate.
22062024 CoinStats suffered a breach impacting more than 1500 wallets.BtcTurk exploited loss 55 million usd
25062024 FBI busted a group of cryptocurency home invaders
28062024 SEC filed a lawsuit against Consensys, creator of MetaMask wallet
01072024 1 BTC=62878 USD
02072024 Bittensor wallets drained loss=8 mio USD
05072024 BTC price dropped.Investors focused on payment of 9 billion usd to victims of Mt. Gox.
06072024 1 BTC=55531 USD
08072024 Coinbase impersonators stole 1.7 Mio USD in 1 scam call
09072024 The German government sold 3100 BTC
11072024 1 BTC=58984 USD.Hut 8 expanded mining operations with power deal in Texas. In Gradbury,Texas citizens complained about btc mining claiming it made some citizens sick.
14072024 Donald Trump memecoin went up 52% after failed assassination attempt
15072024 1 BTC=62881 USD. Usa held 213000 btc,uk 61000 btc,germany 37000 btc,el Salvador 5804 btc
16072024 1 BTC=64939 USD
17072024 UK High Court directed prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges against Craig Wright, after ruling that he lied "extensively and repeatedly" and committed forgery to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto.
18072024 WazirX suffered security breach assets were suspiciously transferred .Loss=230 mio USD.
19072024 1 BTC=66749 USD
25072024 1 BTC=66034 usd. Bitstamp began Mt. Gox creditor repayments. Franklin Templeton planned Solana ETF . A new fund offered citizenship in Portugal by indirectly investing over 500000 usd in BTC. Ferrari extended crypto payment features to its network of European sellers from the end of July 2024
26072024 1 BTC=67250 USD.US presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced at Btc Conference that he would direct the US government to buy Bitcoin until the size of its Bitcoin reserves matched its gold reserves.equal 615 billion usd worth of gold or 4 million Bitcoin.
290724 Valve(Steam) was sued for 656 million UKP, for overcharging and abusing dominant position.
30072024 Russia passed a bill that allowed businesses to use cryptocurrencies in international trade.
31072024 Fortune 50 company paid a record-breaking 75 million usd ransom payment to Dark Angels ransomware gang. California's DMV digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain technology to detect fraud and streamline the title transfer process. MicroStrategy purchased 169 btc worth 11.4 million usd in July, holdings was 226500 btc
05082024 1 BTC=49443 USD
06082024 1 BTC=56339 USD.12 million USD captured by whitehat hackers from Ronin bridge
07082024 Ripple was fined 125 million USD by the SEC
09082024 FTX ordered to pay 12.7 billion usd in relief to customers
13082024 Riot acquired additional 1 million Bitfarms common shares.
14082024 1 BTC=59666 USD.6 Ransomware gangs behind 50% of 2024 attacks. Bitcoin ETFs have added 37510 BTC to their holdings each month on average.Bitcoin-related leveraged ETF debut.
15082024 A person lost 100000 usd to an impersonating Coinbase support scammer, found via a scam link.
19082024 1 BTC=58000 USD
22082024 Average Btc transaction fee suddenly exploded 937% from 0.74 usd to 7679 usd per transaction
23082024 1 BTC=61482 USD. A former CEO of a Kansas bank was sentenced to 24 years in prison for plundering the bank of 47 million usd which he sent to wallets controlled by scammers who had manipulated him in a "pig butchering" scam/. Since 2021, El Salvador had mined 474 Bitcoin, and purchased 162 Btc since it began buying 1 btc on 16 march
26082024 Bitcoin mining company Rhodium Enterprises filed for bankruptcy. GCZ Global and Triten Financial Group Ponzi scheme charged by SEC loss= 61.5 million usd
28082024 SEC issued a Wells notice to OpenSea, threatening legal action over alleged securities violations.
29082024 Haru Invest CEO Hyung-soo was stabbed in the neck in court during a fraud trial
02092024 1 BTC=58455 USD Wallets with 100+ BTC hit 17-month high.Btcminers mining revenue 12-month lows as the Bitcoin network’s April “halving” continued to erode mining output
03092024 Penpie exploit loss=27 million usd. In response, the DeFi platform suspended deposits and withdrawals
04092024 Robinhood must pay 3.9 million usd to settle commodities law violations in California
06092024 1 BTC=53213 USD. Riot Platforms held 10000 Bitcoin, 37% increase from the same period last year.
10092024 1 BTC=58000 usd. Americans lost over 5.6 billion usd to cryptocurrency scams in 2023.Indodax hacked loss=22 million usd.Hacker steals $1.45 million from CUT token liquidity pool
11092024 1 BTC=55717 tether had 120 billion usd in assets, U.S. Treasury bills, along with positions in btc and gold. Last year it generated 6.2 billion usd in profit.
12092024 eToro fined by SEC 1.5 million usd, shut down crypto trading for U.S.-based customers
13092024 Sam Bankman-Fried filed an appeal challenging his conviction. CCP, developer of Eve announced that upcoming game version will be built on blockchain and incorporate crypto for in-game transactions.
18092024 1 BTC=60108 USD. Tether held 75000 BTC
19092024 Germany seized 47 cryptocurrency exchanges alleged used to launder funds by ransomware groups. Arrest of 2 Phishers regarding a 4000 BTC phishing attack targeting a Genesis Creditor.
20092024 BingX hacked for 52 million usd .Shezmu hacked loss= 5 million usd.
23092024 Bhutan had over 828 million usd in bitcoin, according to data by Arkham Intelligence.
24092024 1 BTC=63241 USD. Former CEO of Alameda Research, must serve 24 months in prison & forfeit 11 billion usd
26092024 The Onyx protocol was hacked again, for a second time by attackers taking advantage of known bugs loss= 3.8 million usd. Truflation hacked for around 5 million usd.
27092024 1 BTC=66240 USD. Bedrock staking platform lost 2 million usd after exploiters discovered a bug that allowed them to swap 1 ETH for 1 BTC.
28092024 A person lost 12083 spWETH loss=32 million usd to a wallet drainer
2102024 1 BTC=61678 USD
8102024 Cullen Hobacks film Money electric the bitcoin mystery
10102024 1 BTC=60132 USD
14102024 1 BTC=66000 USD.short liquidations worth 100 million usd when btc hit 64000 usd.Chinese scientists launched an attack on a widely used encryption method using a quantum computer. It was a real and substantial threat to the password-protection mechanism used by critical sectors, including banking and the military
15102024 World Liberty Financial, had frequent website outages during token sale. only about 4% of registered users bought tokens, and sold 3% of the 20 billion tokens available
16102024 Exceptional Media, creator of YieldNodes blockchain investment project sued Chainalysis because Chainalysis previously called YieldNodes an investment scam.
17102024 Radiant Capital exploited loss=50 million usd.FBI arrested an Alabama man accused of hacking the Sec X account in January.
18102024 Montenegro halted Do Kwon’s extradition
21102024 A research paper by the Federal Reserve Bank suggested that Btc would need to be taxed or banned for governments to maintain deficits. Bitcoin network hashrate( total computing power securing the Bitcoin network reached) ath of 769.8 exahashes per second. Chris Larsen, Ripple, donated 10 million usd to Kamala Harris. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong funded Republican candidates.
22102024 1 BTC=67235 USD.
24102024 1 BTC=68512 USD. MSFT vote in December on whether or not to purchase Btc. R.Hoffman, LinkedIn founder & MSFT board member was positive. Criminal investigation of the use of Tether
24102024 Russia made a new law :rigid state control over cryptocurrency mining.
29102024 1 BTC=72870 USD New Ath. Consensys cut 20% of its total workforce.
30102024 Visa customers with debit cards able to deposit funds into Coinbase account
31102024 1 BTC=70507 USD
1112024 Russian founder of Gotbit, charged of wire fraud and market manipulation
3112024 M2 hacked for 13.7 million usd. LottieFiles hacked in supply chain attack loss 10 btc. MetaWin casino hacked for 4 million usd
5112024 CVE-2024-52922 - Hindered block propagation due to stalling peers A peer could hinder block propagation by announcing blocks first and then simply withholding the block.
6112024 1 BTC=76400 USD >New Ath. Ceo of wonder.fi napped and held for ransom 1 mio.
7112024 1 BTC=75936 USD. Wallet “bc1qh” acquired 50.4 million usd worth of Btc from Binance.“bc1qa,” bought 92 million usd worth of Btc.
8112024 CoinPoker exploited loss=2 million usd.
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