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October 2014
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2Silk Road closed, 2013 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22Sidechains paper | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29First bitcoin ATM, 2013 | 30 | 31Whitepaper, 2008 |
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Events in October 2014
Thursday 2 October4413 days ago
FBI shuts down Silk Road, 2013
1 year ago. 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)
Wednesday 22 October4393 days ago
The sidechains paper
Adam Back, Gregory Maxwell, Pieter Wuille, Luke Dashjr and five other developers published "Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains". It proposed moving bitcoin onto separate blockchains with new features and back again, with any fault in a sidechain confined to that sidechain.
MilestonesSourceAdam Back and others, "Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains" (dated 2014-10-22)
Wednesday 29 October4386 days ago
The first bitcoin ATM opens, 2013
1 year ago. 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.
MilestonesSourceCBC News, World's first bitcoin ATM opens in Vancouver, 29 Oct 2013What happened
Friday 31 October4384 days ago
The Bitcoin whitepaper, 2008
6 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