"MIT ChainAnchor - Bribing Miners to Regulate Bitcoin": https://petertodd.org/2016/mit-chainanchor-bribing-miners-to-regulate-bitcoin

Bitcoin's first production sidechain goes live: https://blockstream.com/2015/10/12/introducing-liquid/

Headline of the day: "Mike Tyson: I'm Grateful to be Part of the Bitcoin Revolution". http://www.coindesk.com/mike-tyson-im-grateful-to-be-part-of-the-bitcoin-revolution

And so it begins. Intermediary bank blocked my SEPA transfer to a Bitcoin exchange due to the nature of the transaction. No law against BTC.