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November 2025
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6Samourai sentencing | 7 | 8FTX collapses, 2022 | 9 |
| 10 | 11Qian sentenced | 12 | 13Czech central bank | 14Taproot, 2021 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20Texas reserve funded | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27$1,000, 2013 | 28The first halving, 2012 | 29$10,000, 2017 | 30 |
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Events in November 2025
Thursday 6 November360 days ago
Samourai Wallet co-founder sentenced to five years
A US federal judge sentenced Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of the Samourai Wallet bitcoin app, to five years in prison for conspiring to run an unlicensed money-transmitting business through its coin-mixing service, which pooled users' payments to hide where they came from. Co-founder William Hill was sentenced to four years on 19 November.
PolicySourceCoinDesk, Samourai Wallet Dev Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison (6 Nov 2025)
Saturday 8 November358 days ago
FTX halts withdrawals and files for bankruptcy, 2022
3 years ago. The crypto exchange FTX paused all customer withdrawals on 8 November and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on 11 November. Chapter 11 is the US process that shields a company from creditors while it reorganises or sells its assets.
MarketsSourceSEC complaint, SEC v. Samuel Bankman-Fried, filed 13 Dec 2022 (sec.gov)What happened
Tuesday 11 November355 days ago
UK sentences Zhimin Qian in its record bitcoin seizure case
A London court sentenced Zhimin Qian to 11 years and 8 months in a money-laundering case tied to a Chinese investment fraud. Police had seized about 61,000 bitcoin from her, the largest cryptocurrency seizure in UK history, and in October 2026 the courts were still deciding who keeps it.
PolicySourceCrown Prosecution Service, How we prosecuted Europe's biggest crypto money laundering case
Thursday 13 November353 days ago
Czech central bank buys bitcoin
The Czech National Bank said it had bought digital assets for the first time in its history: a $1 million test portfolio of bitcoin, a dollar stablecoin and a tokenised deposit, held outside its official reserves.
PolicySourceCzech National Bank, The CNB creates a test portfolio of digital assets (13 Nov 2025)
Friday 14 November352 days ago
Taproot activates, 2021
4 years ago. The Taproot upgrade took effect at block 709,632. It added Schnorr signatures and a new kind of output that reveals less about complex spending conditions, making them cheaper and more private.
NetworkSee block 709,632SourceBIP 341, Deployment section ("The deployment did activate at height 709632")What happened
Thursday 20 November346 days ago
Texas funds its bitcoin reserve, the first state to do so
Texas bought about $5 million of shares in BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF (IBIT) for its new Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the first time a US state put money into a bitcoin reserve.
PolicySourceThe Block, Texas reportedly kicks off state bitcoin reserve with $5 million IBIT purchase (25 Nov 2025)
Thursday 27 November339 days ago
Bitcoin passes $1,000, 2013
12 years ago. Bitcoin traded at $1,000 on Mt. Gox, then the world's largest exchange for buying bitcoin with US dollars, for the first time.
MarketsSourceCoinDesk, Bitcoin Price Hits $1,000 After Doubling in 7 Days (27 Nov 2013)
Friday 28 November338 days ago
The first halving, 2012
13 years ago. At block 210,000 the reward for mining a block fell from 50 to 25 bitcoin, the first halving. The software halves the reward every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years.
NetworkSee block 210,000SourceBitcoin Core source, nSubsidyHalvingInterval = 210000
Saturday 29 November337 days ago
Bitcoin passes $10,000, 2017
8 years ago. Bitcoin rose above $10,000 for the first time on CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index.
MarketsSourceCoinDesk, It's Official: Bitcoin's Price Makes History Passing $10k (29 Nov 2017)