Coinbase Exchange is rebranding to GDAX, and The DAO is now the most successful crowdsale in history.
The DAO has broken the $100 million mark in funds raised, and exchange Gatecoin has been hacked.
Bitstamp receives a banking license for the EU, and The DAO project has been launched.
It was a big year for Bitcoin, and perhaps even more so for the blockchain technology underpinning Bitcoin. The news was not always positive, but did include several major milestones that pushed the price of Bitcoin to increase by more than 30 percent over the full year.
Iran now has its first Bitcoin exchange and a majority of mining pools in Bitcoin’s network are supporting BIP100.