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History of Bitcoin 2016

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2 January 2016 Lightning labs was founded by Elizabeth Stark, Joseph Poon,Thaddeus Dryja, and Olaoluwa Osuntokun. 14 January 2016 Mike hearn left Bitcoin development. 19 January 2016 The movie Banking on Bitcoin was released. 30 January 2016 Network rate exceeded 1 exahash/sec 1 February 2016  Jyske Bankmanager Anders Dam said Bitcoin was an advanced version of the Christiania coin. 4 February 2016 A Vietnamese movie named Bitcoin Heist was released. 23 February 2016 Bitcoin core 0.12 was released 1 March 2016 Japan recognized virtual currencies as having a function similar to real money. Bidorbuy, the largest South African online marketplace, launched btc payments for both buyers and sellers 14 March 2016 Shapeshift was hacked loss=315 BTC 2 more attacks which resulted in 469 BTC, 1900 LTC and 5800 ETH stolen 30 March 2016 Wuille,Johnson Lau & Lombrozo launched final testnet of SegWit.Repeated DDoS attacks forced Coinkite Btc wallet to close down web service 31 March 20...

History of Bitcoin 2015

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Steve Quezadas at La shop accepting BTC,One of the first to accept BTC at his shop on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood   1 January 2015 Bitstamp exchange was hacked(19000 Btc),$5.2 Million worth of bitcoin was stolen one of its active operational bitcoin storage wallets was "phished".1 BTC= 313.92 USD 2 January 2015 Brian Kelly wrote the bitcoin bang   3 January 2015 A smokeshop in Atlanta was robbed for a Bitcoin atm 11 January 2015 1 BTC= 265.34 USD   22 January 2015 Thieves stole 2 Btc atms in Amsterdam 23 January 2015 First Real vision youtube video   1 February 2015 A New York Bitcoin trader was robbed for 12000 USD in BTC 10 February 2015 Bitcoin exchange MyCoin vanished - leaving up to 387 million usd in investor funds unaccounted for. 16 February 2015 Bitcoin core 0.10 was released 17 February 2015 Bter was hacked.claimed that 7170 BTC was stolen from a cold wallet. 30 February 2015 Merchants accepting bitcoin exceeded 100000 March 2015 Xcoin/Darkcoi...