# Last edited on 2014-04-12 21:58:41 by stolfilocal

[b]Events affecting Bitcoin's price[/b]

The following plots show the BTC price at Huobi and Bitstamp from about December 16, 2013 to about April 11, 2014. The labels near the top show the dates of events that appear to have had a significant effect on the price.

Huobi (BTC/CNY):
[url=http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/temp/2014-04-11-history-03m-HUBI-annotated.png][img width=600]http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/temp/2014-04-11-history-03m-HUBI-annotated.png[/img][/url]

Bitstamp (BTC/USD):
[url=http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/temp/2014-04-11-history-03m-BSTP-annotated.png][img width=600]http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/temp/2014-04-11-history-03m-BSTP-annotated.png[/img][/url]

Source: Bitcoinwisdom.com, 6h charts. 

The events marked above are[pre]
  Jan/31 15:00 Start of Chinese New Year holiday week.                            
  Feb/05 21:00 End of Chinese New Year holiday week.                              
  Feb/10 09:00 MtGOX first press release, blaming "bug in protocol".
  Feb/20 09:00 MtGOX second press release.                          
  Feb/24 03:00 UNKNOWN EVENT                                        
  Mar/15 15:00 UNKNOWN EVENT                                        
  Mar/26 21:00 Caixin leaks a PBoC directive to close the RMB channels.           
  Apr/02 12:00 BTC38, FXBTC announce closing of their bank accounts.      
  Apr/10 04:00 Huobi announces closing of their ICBC account.            
  Apr/11 03:00 PBoC official compares bitcoin to stamps.            
[/pre]

Sugestions and corrections are most welcome.