2013 Bitcoin price rally and market maturation (2012–2014)

1. Coinbase launches bank-transfer bitcoin buying and selling

   Oct 1, 2012Labels: Coinbase, Bank transfer

   • Coinbase Wiki

2. First Bitcoin “halving” cuts new supply

   Nov 28, 2012Labels: Bitcoin halving, Monetary policy

   • CoinMarketCap
   • StatMuse

3. Bitcoin-Qt 0.8.0 released to improve performance

   Feb 19, 2013Labels: Bitcoin-Qt, Reference client

   • Bitcoin org

4. FinCEN issues U.S. guidance on virtual currencies

   Mar 18, 2013Labels: FinCEN, Money services

   • FinCEN

5. April 2013 price surge and crash stress-test trading

   Apr 10, 2013Labels: Price surge, Bitcoin exchanges

   • Bloomberg
   • Bitcoin Magazine

6. BitPay raises funding to expand merchant payments

   May 16, 2013Labels: BitPay, Payment processor

   • TechCrunch

7. Coinbase announces $5 million Series A round

   May 22, 2013Labels: Coinbase, Union Square

   • Coinbase Blog
   • Y Combinator

8. Silk Road shutdown links bitcoin to law enforcement focus

   Oct 1, 2013Labels: Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht

   • DOJ SDNY

9. U.S. announces large bitcoin seizures tied to Silk Road

   Oct 25, 2013Labels: Bitcoin seizure, U S

   • DOJ SDNY

10. U.S. Senate committee holds first virtual currency hearing

    Nov 18, 2013Labels: U S, Virtual currency

    • U S Senate

11. Bitcoin surpasses $1,000 amid late-2013 rally

    Nov 27, 2013Labels: Price milestone, 1 000

    • TIME
    • Wired

12. China’s central bank restricts banks’ bitcoin involvement

    Dec 5, 2013Labels: People's Bank, Chinese banks

    • CNBC
    • Wired

13. Coinbase raises $25 million as infrastructure expands

    Dec 12, 2013Labels: Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz

    • TechCrunch

14. Mt. Gox halts withdrawals, exposing exchange fragility

    Feb 7, 2014Labels: Mt Gox, Exchange outage

    • CNBC
    • Mt Gox Wiki

15. Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy, deepening trust crisis

    Feb 28, 2014Labels: Mt Gox, Bankruptcy

    • Mt Gox Wiki