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3 years ago. The US Securities and Exchange Commission approved 11 spot bitcoin exchange-traded products, funds that hold bitcoin and whose shares trade on stock exchanges, for listing on three US exchanges.

May 2016

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Events in May 2016

Monday 2 May3836 days ago

  • Craig Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

    Craig Wright publicly claimed to be Bitcoin's creator, and Gavin Andresen wrote the same day that he believed him. Other experts doubted the evidence; in 2024 a UK court ruled that Wright is not Satoshi.

    PolicySourceGavin Andresen, "Satoshi" (2 May 2016, archived)