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BTC Balkans
ConferencesSunday 1 November
A two-day, community-run Bitcoin conference for the Balkans, with keynotes, panels and workshops.
October 2013
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2Silk Road closed | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29First bitcoin ATM | 30 | 31Whitepaper, 2008 |
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Events in October 2013
Wednesday 2 October4778 days ago
FBI shuts down Silk Road
The FBI shut down Silk Road, a hidden online market for illegal drugs where buyers paid in bitcoin, and arrested Ross Ulbricht, who was later convicted of running it.
PolicySourceCNNMoney, 2 October 2013 (archived copy)
Tuesday 29 October4751 days ago
The first bitcoin ATM opens
A bitcoin ATM made by Robocoin went live in a Waves Coffee House in downtown Vancouver, Canada. CBC News reported it as a world first: after scanning the customer's palm, it swapped Canadian dollars for bitcoin and back.
Milestones · 16:00 UTCSourceCBC News, World's first bitcoin ATM opens in Vancouver, 29 Oct 2013What happened
Thursday 31 October4749 days ago
The Bitcoin whitepaper, 2008
5 years ago. Satoshi Nakamoto announced the paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" on the Cryptography Mailing List, describing electronic cash that works without a bank or other trusted third party.
MilestonesSourceSatoshi Nakamoto Institute, "Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper" email (dated 31 Oct 2008, 18:10:00 UTC)What happened