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BitMarket.eu

Early European Bitcoin exchange / order-matching market announced in April 2011. After degraded service, the operator disclosed in December 2012 that customer funds had been used for speculation and nearly 20,000 BTC had been lost; by March 2013, investor communications stated that BitMarket.eu operations would be closed down.

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Also known as: BitMarket.Eu, BitMarket EU, BitMarket.eu Exchange

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Key facts

Launch date
2011-04-05
Death date
2013-03-19
Years
2011–2013
Origin
Europe / Poland
Confidence
high
Last verified
2026-04-29

URL handling

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URL status
offline
Original URL
https://bitmarket.eu/
Archived URL
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Summary

Early European Bitcoin exchange / order-matching market announced in April 2011. After degraded service, the operator disclosed in December 2012 that customer funds had been used for speculation and nearly 20,000 BTC had been lost; by March 2013, investor communications stated that BitMarket.eu operations would be closed down.

Timeline

BitMarket.eu announced
2011-04-05launchedmedium

Bitcoin Wiki records BitMarket.eu as announced on 2011-04-05 as a multi-currency Bitcoin exchange / order-matching market.

BitMarket.eu disclosed major customer-fund loss
2012-12-21insolvencycritical

The operator disclosed that customer funds had been used for speculation and that nearly 20,000 BTC of customer funds had been lost.

BitMarket.eu operations closed down
2013-03-19shutdown_effectivecritical

Investor communications in the Bitcointalk thread stated that BitMarket.eu operations would be closed down, leaving the site only to handle old frozen coin issues.

Evidence

BitMarket.eu
Bitcoin Wiki2017-07-01community_referencemedium reliabilitylaunch_datearchive
BitMarket.eu history
Bitcoin Wiki2017-07-01community_referencemedium reliabilityeventarchive
36 bitcoin exchanges that are no longer with us
Bitcoin Talk Radio2015-11-28database_referencelow reliabilitydeath_reasonarchive
BitMarket.Eu has closed down
Bitcointalk2013-03-19community_referencemedium reliabilityeventarchive
BitMarket.Eu has closed down - later refund thread context
Bitcointalk2013-12-05community_referencelow reliabilitystatusarchive
Archive index for the former BitMarket.eu site
Internet Archive2026-04-29archive_capturemedium reliabilityurl_historyarchive

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Notes and record state

Record note
HEI treats BitMarket.eu separately from BitMarket.pl. The death_reason is insolvency because contemporary records describe customer funds being lost through operator speculation and old balances being frozen. The 2013-03-19 date is used as the terminal operations-closed marker from investor communications.
Revision state
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