Recent Bitcoin Events

[jjjrmy]

I'm working on a nice graph and need to know the influental Bitcoin events and their dates.

So far I only have the Linode Attack and the Good Wife episode.

Anything else?

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[Steve]

Geeze…where do you start?  This is was immediately comes to mind.

- slashdot's first report of dollar parity
- loss of 25k bitcoins by allinvain
- Chuck Schumer's press release about silk road and bitcoin
- mtgox hack sending the price of bitcoin to close to zero (from the mid $20's at the time)
- bitcoin7 accidentally losing all their bitcoins
- mybitcoin disappearance
- Dwolla/TradeHill scandal (when it first broke)

[jjjrmy]

Geeze…where do you start?  This is was immediately comes to mind.

- slashdot's first report of dollar parity
- loss of 25k bitcoins by allinvain
- Chuck Schumer's press release about silk road and bitcoin
- mtgox hack sending the price of bitcoin to close to zero (from the mid $20's at the time)
- bitcoin7 accidentally losing all their bitcoins
- mybitcoin disappearance
- Dwolla/TradeHill scandal (when it first broke)

Must have dates.
You don't have to go back paste the MtGox Hack

[kiba]

Geeze…where do you start?  This is was immediately comes to mind.

- slashdot's first report of dollar parity
- loss of 25k bitcoins by allinvain
- Chuck Schumer's press release about silk road and bitcoin
- mtgox hack sending the price of bitcoin to close to zero (from the mid $20's at the time)
- bitcoin7 accidentally losing all their bitcoins
- mybitcoin disappearance
- Dwolla/TradeHill scandal (when it first broke)

We need good news too!

[proudhon]

The first bitcoin conference.

[muyuu]

News about bitcoin (mainly bad news, but still) have hit Reddit and HackerNews front pages several times. More traffic than Slashdot at the moment.


Top posts in HN by popularity:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676263
I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday (bitcoin.org)
656 points by wmf 260 days ago | flag | 312 comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110
Compromised Linode, thousands of BitCoins stolen (bitcoinmedia.com)
316 points by tillda 5 days ago | flag | 240 comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2671441
500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash (bitcoincharts.com)
273 points by eis 261 days ago | flag | comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2969568
Krugman on BitCoin (nytimes.com)
251 points by mef 182 days ago | flag | comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453988
Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks (time.com)
277 points by kiba 326 days ago | flag | comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2611281
The Quora post that killed Bitcoins. Please discuss if his arguments are valid. (qr.ae)
238 points by andreasklinger 279 days ago | flag | comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566365
Javascript Bitcoin Miner (bitcoin.org)
223 points by pizza 292 days ago | flag | comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524631
Bitcoin app rejected by Apple (bitcoin.org)
200 points by hfinney 304 days ago | flag | comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3122349
Bitcoin value falls from above $33 to below $3 (betabeat.com)
189 points by stickfigure 141 days ago | flag | comments

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3282793
Bitcoin (avc.com)
183 points by sathishmanohar 100 days ago | flag | comments

[Revalin]

Here's where I dug for event markers when making my charts:

http://bitcoinwatch.com/headlines.html

[kjlimo]

St. Louis based GrubGo announces it's accepting Bitcoin February 12, 2012.

http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2012/02/spend-your-bitcoins-at-16-st-louis.html

[jjjrmy]

Bump.

Any more events w/ dates?

[kjlimo]

http://www.bitmadness.com/

March Madness Brackets run with bitcoins! Established March 11, 2012

I think someone is keeping track of the number of websites that accept bitcoin for goods & services. 

That count went down for the first month in February 2012.  Not a good piece of info, but hopefully it was only due to cleaning up failed sites or duplicates in the listing. 

Hopefully, it keeps going up in the future.

[bbit]

http://www.bitmadness.com/

March Madness Brackets run with bitcoins! Established March 11, 2012

I think someone is keeping track of the number of websites that accept bitcoin for goods & services. 

That count went down for the first month in February 2012.  Not a good piece of info, but hopefully it was only due to cleaning up failed sites or duplicates in the listing. 

Hopefully, it keeps going up in the future.

awesome lol ^^

[Seal]

Another broker bites the dust:

WorldBitcoinExchange.com (Australia) has suspended trading and is allegedly returning customer funds however we are all still waiting.

[kjlimo]

Another broker bites the dust:

WorldBitcoinExchange.com (Australia) has suspended trading and is allegedly returning customer funds however we are all still waiting.

How big of an exchange was that?  (this is the first I've heard of it)

Why is it shutting down/suspending trading? 

Is it the govt?  or is it just incompetent/scammish?

[jjjrmy]

http://cache.gyazo.com/eb69fe40d801b2e3788cfdc83c8f1b84.png
What caused the two drops around February? That's all I'm missing.
It looks like it was between the TradeHill shutdown and the Linode Hack

[payb.tc]

Another broker bites the dust:

WorldBitcoinExchange.com (Australia) has suspended trading and is allegedly returning customer funds however we are all still waiting.

How big of an exchange was that?  (this is the first I've heard of it)

Why is it shutting down/suspending trading? 

Is it the govt?  or is it just incompetent/scammish?

it's the incompetent/scammish govt.

[the founder]

Flexcoin the Bitcoin Bank sold on March 13, 2012

[kjlimo]

http://cache.gyazo.com/eb69fe40d801b2e3788cfdc83c8f1b84.png
What caused the two drops around February? That's all I'm missing.
It looks like it was between the TradeHill shutdown and the Linode Hack

While cause & effect are not always perfectly related, my belief is that there were a few people that couldn't wait any longer to cash out their bitcoin position which had been purchased for cheap in November for $2 / BTC.  They likely were hoping for additional upside following the Good Wife Episode and when things started to retract from $7 / BTC, they finally decided to capitalize on doubling their money.

I'm thinking there were two waves associated with that, and now we're back to equilibrium until the next new wave of investors start buying up bitcoins.... and based on the past 24 hours, it looks like they might have arrived!