Bitcoin events

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2019-12-27Chinese Authorities Announce Arrests in PlusToken Scam
2019-12-29Bitcoin Core 0.20 Release Candidate Announced
2019-12-29Report Details Use of Bitcoin by Hong Kong Protestors
2019-12-30Bitcoin Named Best-Performing Asset of the Decade
2019-12-31Bitcoin Closes 2019 with 90% Annual Gain
2020-01-06Former Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler is sworn into the U.S. Senate
2020-01-08Taproot activation-mechanism debate develops
2020-01-10EU AMLD5 takes effect for virtual-currency exchanges and custodian wallet providers
2020-01-13CME launches options on Bitcoin futures
2020-01-16Former CFTC chair Chris Giancarlo launches the Digital Dollar Project
2020-01-18Bitcoin price briefly surpasses $9,000 for the first time in 2020
2020-01-19BIPs 340, 341 and 342 formalize Schnorr, Taproot and Tapscript
2020-01-19Peter Schiff loses access to his Bitcoin wallet after forgetting credentials
2020-01-20Adam Back discusses Satoshi correspondence, privacy and Bitcoin's early history
2020-01-21Grayscale Bitcoin Trust becomes an SEC reporting company
2020-01-24World Economic Forum elevates digital-currency governance at Davos
2020-01-29Zermatt begins accepting Bitcoin for local taxes and official transactions
2020-01-29Andrew Yang calls for clear national cryptocurrency regulation
2020-01-31Kraken discloses physical seed-extraction attack against Trezor hardware wallets
2020-02-01Casa launches Covenant Bitcoin inheritance service
2020-02-02Twitter adds a dedicated Bitcoin hashtag emoji
2020-02-11Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve is examining digital-currency developments
2020-02-12Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says FinCEN is preparing significant new cryptocurrency requirements
2020-02-13U.S. charges Helix operator Larry Harmon over Bitcoin mixing service
2020-02-15bZx suffers two early flash-loan exploits days apart
2020-02-17FCoin reveals insolvency with a 7,000-13,000 BTC shortfall
2020-02-17Binance introduces Binance Cloud white-label exchange infrastructure
2020-02-21FATF reviews implementation of virtual-asset Travel Rule requirements
2020-02-21Fidelity International invests $14 million in BC Group, operator of OSL
2020-02-24Warren Buffett says cryptocurrencies have no value and he will never own them
2020-02-26SEC rejects Wilshire Phoenix Bitcoin ETF proposal
2020-02-26BIP340 Schnorr specification materially revised during implementation review
2020-02-26Square reports $178 million in fourth-quarter 2019 Bitcoin revenue through Cash App
2020-02-27Global Markets Begin COVID-19 Crash
2020-03-02BaFin clarifies crypto-assets as financial instruments under German law
2020-03-04India Supreme Court overturns RBI cryptocurrency banking restriction
2020-03-05South Korea passes comprehensive cryptocurrency regulatory legislation
2020-03-06Bitcoin 2020 conference is postponed as COVID-19 spreads
2020-03-09Bitcoin Core 0.19.1 released
2020-03-09Black Monday in Traditional Markets
2020-03-11WHO Declares COVID-19 a Global Pandemic
2020-03-12Black Thursday Bitcoin market collapse
2020-03-12Coinbase rolls out Bitcoin transaction batching
2020-03-13Bitcoin Network Experiences Extreme Congestion Post-Crash
2020-03-13Edward Snowden says Bitcoin's Black Thursday drop makes him want to buy
2020-03-15US Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates to Zero, Launches $700B QE
2020-03-16Court orders Craig Wright to pay about $165,800 in Kleiman legal fees
2020-03-18BitGo adds customer excess insurance above its existing $100 million custody policy
2020-03-23Federal Reserve commits to open-ended asset purchases during COVID crisis
2020-03-25Statechain design proposed without requiring Bitcoin consensus changes
2020-03-25Bitcoin difficulty falls 15.95% after Black Thursday mining stress
2020-03-27U.S. Passes $2.2 Trillion CARES Act Stimulus Package
2020-04-02Binance completes acquisition of CoinMarketCap
2020-04-08Bitcoin Cash Halving Occurs, Affecting Miner Economics
2020-04-093iQ Bitcoin Fund begins trading on Toronto Stock Exchange
2020-04-14Financial Stability Board proposes global-stablecoin regulatory recommendations
2020-04-16Libra Association revises its white paper under regulatory pressure
2020-04-20China's NDRC includes blockchain among technologies supporting its 'new infrastructure' strategy
2020-04-22Bryan Bishop publishes working presigned Bitcoin vault prototype
2020-04-29Researchers disclose routed Lightning payment atomicity weakness
2020-04-30Riot Blockchain buys 1,000 next-generation Antminer S19 Pro miners
2020-05-04Chainalysis launches Crypto Crime Intelligence Briefs
2020-05-06Cambridge launches first interactive geographic Bitcoin mining map
2020-05-07Paul Tudor Jones publicly makes institutional macro case for Bitcoin
2020-05-11Bitcoin's third subsidy halving
2020-05-11Bitcoin community holds global virtual events around the third halving
2020-05-11Consensus 2020 opens as a fully virtual conference
2020-05-12JPMorgan begins banking Coinbase and Gemini
2020-05-12Telegram abandons the TON blockchain project after its SEC battle
2020-05-12Bitcoin Transaction Fees Spike After Halving
2020-05-14Hedge Fund Manager Raoul Pal Becomes Bitcoin Bull
2020-05-15BitMEX parent launches expanded open-source developer grant program
2020-05-15J.K. Rowling's Bitcoin questions trigger a large public explanation campaign
2020-05-20Taproot transaction-digest design receives significant security revision
2020-05-20Fifty bitcoin mined in 2009 move for the first time in eleven years
2020-05-27Coinbase agrees to acquire institutional crypto prime broker Tagomi
2020-05-28Samsung Blockchain Wallet integrates Gemini for U.S. and Canadian users
2020-06-01Canada begins treating virtual-currency dealers as money services businesses
2020-06-02Time-Dilation Attacks on the Lightning Network published
2020-06-03Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 released
2020-06-03Chris Belcher publishes a full CoinSwap implementation design
2020-06-04Micree Zhan retakes Bitmain's Beijing office as co-founder power struggle escalates
2020-06-10Bitmain confirms Antminer S19 and S19 Pro shipments have begun
2020-06-10Taproot activation planning continues through public developer discussion
2020-06-11Human Rights Foundation launches Bitcoin Development Fund
2020-06-12UCSF pays 116.4 BTC ransomware demand after NetWalker attack
2020-06-15Flood & Loot models systemic Lightning attack
2020-06-15Compound begins COMP governance-token distribution, accelerating DeFi summer
2020-06-17WabiSabi proposes variable-amount coordinated CoinJoin
2020-06-22New Zealand police restrain NZD140M tied to alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik
2020-06-22Reports say PayPal and Venmo plan direct cryptocurrency buying and selling
2020-06-24Court denies plaintiffs' omnibus sanctions motion in Kleiman v. Wright
2020-06-25Wirecard Files for Insolvency After Accounting Scandal
2020-06-26Tokenized Bitcoin on Ethereum exceeds 10,000 BTC, with WBTC dominant
2020-06-30FATF completes first 12-month review of virtual-asset standards and Travel Rule implementation
2020-07-01BIP339 formalizes wtxid-based transaction relay
2020-07-02ZenGo discloses BigSpender vulnerabilities in major Bitcoin wallets
2020-07-09New York court allows Bitfinex/Tether investigation to proceed
2020-07-09Brave and bitFlyer announce partnership for Japan crypto integration
2020-07-14Cash App signs multiyear sponsorship with NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace