22 May 2010, when 10,000 BTC bought two pizzas, remembered as the first retail Bitcoin purchase lore.

An August 2010 Bitcoin validation bug that allowed an invalidly large output total, followed by a software fix and a chain reorganization.

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, published 31 October 2008.

A high-profile lending and trading scam that collapsed in 2018 after promising impossible yields.

Theft of about 120,000 BTC from Bitfinex. Later U.S. seizures of related coins became a landmark recovery story.

12 March 2020 crypto crash during COVID panic when Bitcoin plunged and Maker liquidations malfunctioned under congestion.

A CeFi lender that entered bankruptcy after the 2022 credit cascade and FTX exposure.

Yuga Labs' ape PFPs that became the 2021 status NFT, then a symbol of NFT-winter drawdowns.

February 2025 theft of roughly $1.4B to $1.5B from Bybit cold-wallet operations, widely reported as the largest crypto heist to date and linked by investigators to North Korea.