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October 2028

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Events in October 2028

Monday 2 OctoberIn 700 days

  • FBI shuts down Silk Road, 2013

    15 years 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)

Tuesday 10 OctoberIn 708 days

  • The biggest liquidation crash on record, 2025

    3 years ago. About $19 billion of leveraged crypto trades were liquidated in 24 hours, the largest such event on record, after President Trump announced an extra 100% tariff on Chinese imports. Liquidations happen when exchanges forcibly close borrowed bets that have lost too much.

    MarketsSourceCoinDesk Research, Market Spotlight: Inside Crypto's $19 Billion Liquidation Event

Sunday 29 OctoberIn 727 days

  • The first bitcoin ATM opens, 2013

    15 years 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

Tuesday 31 OctoberIn 729 days

  • The Bitcoin whitepaper, 2008

    20 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