Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and a digital payment system invented by an unknown programmer, or a group of programmers, under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. It was released as open-source software in 2009.
October 2, 2013
The Silk Road, an online marketplace best known for selling illegal materials like drugs, is shut down by the BIFBI. The operation to catch the owner of Silk road named Ross William Ulbricht, using the pseudonym Dead Pirate Roberts, is called Operation Onymous. The FBI seized approximately 26k BTC from the Silk Road.