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ConferencesSunday 1 November
A two-day, community-run Bitcoin conference for the Balkans, with keynotes, panels and workshops.
December 2013
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5China bars banks from bitcoin business | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12Satoshi's last post, 2010 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18HODL | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
| 30 | 31 |
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Events in December 2013
Thursday 5 December4714 days ago
China bars banks from bitcoin business
China's central bank and four other regulators barred banks and payment companies from handling bitcoin, calling it a virtual commodity rather than real money. Individuals could still trade it at their own risk.
PolicySourceText of the notice, Yin Fa [2013] No. 289 (Chinese legal database)
Thursday 12 December4707 days ago
Satoshi's last forum post, 2010
3 years ago. Satoshi Nakamoto posted for the last time on the Bitcoin forum, announcing version 0.3.19 with new limits against denial-of-service attacks (attempts to overload nodes).
MilestonesSourceSatoshi Nakamoto Institute, "Added some DoS limits, removed safe mode (0.3.19)" (12 Dec 2010, 18:22:33 UTC)
Wednesday 18 December4701 days ago
The "HODL" post
A bitcointalk user called GameKyuubi posted "I AM HODLING" during a sharp price fall, misspelling "holding". "HODL" became slang for keeping bitcoin rather than selling it.
Milestones · 10:03 UTCSourceGameKyuubi, "I AM HODLING", bitcointalk (archived copy)