History of Bitcoin

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 p...

1 January 2017 Citigroup reported that 95% of all trades was executed by Chinese. 2 January 2017 1 BTC=1000 USD. NHK reported the number of online stores accepting btc in Japan had increased 4.6 times over the past year 3 January 2017 Bitcoin core 0.13.2 was released 25 January 2017 An Australian documentary Magic Money:The bitcoin revolution released. 1 February 2017 Total number of Btc ATMs worldwide crossed 1000 for the first time.BitPay declared the company's transaction rates grew 3× from January 2016 to February 2017, because usage of btc grew in B2B supply chain payments. 16 February 2017 A London Localbitcoin trade ended in robbery   26 February 2017 A wife of an exchange owner was kidnapped and ransomed in Florianpolis. 8 March 2017 Bitcoin core 0.14 was released   14 March 2017 3 Btc traders robbed in Dubai for 25 BTC 31 March 2017 Mexican Bitso trading volume increase 1500% 31 March 2017 Btc price 1 BTC= 1020 USD. Bitcoin VR game was released 1 April 2017 Japan decl...

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...

1 January 2014 The tv movie "The Bitcoin Phenomenon" was released.Altcoin Counterparty launched. Life on Bitcoin was released, a couple tried to live on btc for 90 days. 1 January 2014 Poland announced in its 2014 budget a 23% tax on Bitcoin mining activity. 2 January 2014 Zynga was testing bitcoin for purchasing in-game assets. 12 January 2014 Mastering Bitcoin book released by Andreas Antopolous. 15 January 2014 The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel and Golden Gate Hotel & Casino accepted Btc.The network rate exceeded 10 petahash/sec 18 January 2014 Dash launched as Xcoin,later named Darkcoin. Ethereum launched. 29 January 2014 Vera&John became the first licensed casino to accept Btc. 1 February 2014 Raoul Pal co-founded financial media platform Real Vision. Neo launched 4 February 2014 Naomi Brockwell released "Bitcoin Hearing Song " 7 February 2014 Apple banned Bitcoin app. 7 February 2014 1 BTC=703.56 USD.DDOS attack on Mt.Gox, Bitstamp and BTC-e. 17 February 20...

2 January 2013 BitPay Btc payment processing company, announced it had surpassed 10000 Bitcoin transactions for its merchants, with no cases of payment fraud reported. Bitcoin meetups in the Bay Area began in January 2013, organized by Ryan Singer and Jared Kenna. Pavol “Stick” Rusnák and Marek “Slush” Palatinus envisioned a small, single-purpose computer that would securely store users Btc private keys. In 2013, the two founded SatoshiLabs and created Trezor. 1 February 2013 Matthew Birkenshaw and Riley Alexander, began PizzaForCoins.com, a service that acted as a middleman to allow users to order pizza with BTC in exchange for a small BTC fee. 9 February 2013 Kim Dotcom announced that his cloud storage service, Mega, began accepting Bitcoin payments through bitvoucher.co 14 February, 2013 Reddit began accepting Bitcoin 17 February, 2013 Bitmarket.eu was hacked again. Loss 620 BTC 19 February, 2013 Version 0.8 of the Bitcoin client was released. It featured Bloom Filtering and improv...

6 February 2010 A currency exchange was born The Bitcoin Market was established by dwdollar as a Bitcoin currency exchange. 18 February 2010 Kin/Oksman/Bry Encryption patent was published.The encryption patent application that was registered on August 15, 2008 by Neal Kin,Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry was published. 23 February 2010 Marathon Digital Holdings was founded Feb-may 2010 1 BTC=0.01 USD 3 May 2010  Last mining activity of Satoshi Nakamoto 17 May 2010 The third Satoshi Nakamoto transaction on Block 56173 and moved the rewards from 10 blocks (Blocks 1760, 3479, 9443, 9925, 10645, 14450, 15817, 19093, 23014, 28593) 18 May 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz offered to pay 10000 BTC for 2 pizzas on Bitcoin Forum. 22 May 2010 4 days later Bitcoin talk user Jeremy Sturdivant Jercos purchased the 2 pizzas with a credit card and had them sent to Laszlo Hanyecz home address. User "SmokeTooMuch" auctioned 10000 BTC for 50 USD(cumulatively), but no buyers. 1 June 2010 Agent #6 an early...

Name:  Jeff"jgarzik" Garzik " It's just the early days of bitcoin. Bitcoin interests me as a base layer for enabling automated AI entities to function in the real world, hiring humans and running corporations via decentralized markets. " quote by Jeff Garzik Achievements: - Began developing bitcoin in July 2010 - 15 August 2010  Found a vulnerability in the Bitcoin system that caused Bitcoins to be improperly verified as it  was discovered and exploited, it resulted in the generation of 184 billion Bitcoins. - 14 September 2010 An offer was made by Garzik, in the name of the Bitcoin Store, to puddinpop to open source their Windows-based CUDA client. The offer was in the form of 10,000 BTC(600) USD. Which they agreed to 4 days later. - Sold out of Bitcoin, officially declared that he owned 348.006 btc 21 june 2014 - Founded Bitcoin Watch - Created the Python miner and library for Bitcoin. - Quit his job as Linux, GNOME, cloud coder at Red Hat, to d...