Bitparking

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New Zealand-associated Namecoin and Bitcoin exchange operated under the Bitparking name by Chris Double. After an exchange data-drive corruption incident, Bitparking disabled trading and announced on April 5, 2013 that the exchange would close after a short withdrawal window.

CEXDeadVoluntary shutdown

Also known as: Bitparking Exchange, exchange.bitparking.com, BitParking

Registry sequence

← Bitcoin-24

BitMarket.eu →

Key facts

Launch date

2012-01-01

Death date

2013-04-05

Years

2012–2013

Origin

New Zealand

Confidence

medium

Last verified

2026-06-26

URL handling

Preferred action

Use archived URL first for historical viewing.

URL status

Dead domain

Original URL

https://exchange.bitparking.com/

Archived URL

View archived site

Summary

Timeline

Bitparking exchange operating by 2012

2012-01-01launchedmedium

Public forum and Q&A references show exchange.bitparking.com operating as a Namecoin / Bitcoin exchange by 2012.

Bitparking announced that the exchange would close

2013-04-05shutdown_announcedhigh

A contemporaneous copy of Bitparking's exchange notice stated that trading had been disabled and that the exchange would close after a short withdrawal-only period following a data-drive corruption incident.

Bitparking exchange moved toward withdrawal-only recovery

2013-04-05shutdown_effectivecritical

Forum-preserved exchange status text stated that the exchange suffered drive corruption, would be brought up for withdrawals only after balance recovery, and that the exchange would cease operation.

Bitparking disabled trading and moved to closure

2013-04-05shutdown_effectivecritical

Bitparking disabled exchange trading on April 5, 2013 and provided only a brief withdrawal window before ending exchange operation.

Evidence

Bitcoin Exchanges: Transparency Data or Lack Thereof

Bitcointalk2012-07-01community_referencemedium reliabilityentityarchive

Is there a usable Namecoin e-wallet?

Bitcoin Stack Exchange2012-12-12community_referencemedium reliabilityentityarchive

exchange.bitparking.com

Bitcointalk2013-04-08community_referencemedium reliabilityeventarchive

exchange.bitparking.com recovery discussion

Bitcointalk2014-03-18community_referencemedium reliabilityeventarchive

Bitparking PPCoin Pool discussion

Bitcointalk2013-01-01community_referencelow reliabilitystatusarchive

Archive index for the former Bitparking exchange site

Internet Archive2026-04-29archive_capturemedium reliabilityurl_historyarchive

Bitparking exchange closing notice preserved on Bitcointalk

Bitcointalk community archive2013-04-05community_referencemedium reliabilityeventarchive

Bitparking exchange closing notice preserved on Bitcointalk

Bitcointalk community archive2013-04-05community_referencemedium reliabilitydeath_datearchive

Bitparking recovery and withdrawal discussion after closure

Bitcointalk community archive2013-04-01community_referencemedium reliabilityeventarchive

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Notes and record state

Record note

HEI now models Bitparking as dead / voluntary_shutdown because a contemporaneous forum copy of the official exchange notice explicitly states that trading was disabled and the exchange would close on 2013-04-05 after withdrawals. The underlying evidence is community-preserved rather than a currently accessible first-party page, so confidence remains medium.

Revision state

Records may be incomplete, approximate, contested, or revised as better evidence becomes available.

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