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I used to buy M:TG cards at Mt.Gox back in the day. It was really confusing when I heard they were now a bitcoin exchange

by tomc1985 8y ago

Thorrez 8y ago
Several places online claim it never operated as a M:TG exchange, that was just a plan that never was executed. All the archive.org snapshots seem to show a non-functional site. https://www.wired.com/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/ https://www.wired.com/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bzysz/til_mtgox_was_magic_the_gathering_online_exchange/c9brjl0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bzysz/til_mtgox_w... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412667.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412667.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20070501000000*/http://mtgox.com https://web.archive.org/web/20070501000000*/http://mtgox.com
RL_Quine 8y ago
Nonsense. The site never meaningfully acted in this way, it was at best a tech demo and a coming soon homepage.
Kiro 8y ago
You're lying. Why?
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miles 8y ago
To those saying you could not have traded cards on Mt. Gox: "sometime around late 2007, the service went live for approximately three months before McCaleb moved on to other projects" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding_(2006-10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding_(2006-10) Gwern: "we know the mtgox.com domain had a landing page discussing a forthcoming Magic card trading site (because a 2007 page is in the Internet Archive), but we can't find any evidence that there was any actual trading going on. Did anyone ever actually trade card for card or money for card on Mtgox.com?" McCaleb: "yeah they did" https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2014-mccaleb https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2014-mccaleb
- tomc1985 8y ago
  Indeed. archive.org isn't helping jog my memory but I was buying cards around 2005-2010 from a number of sites, including Mt.Gox.
- Thorrez 8y ago
  I did read the Wikipedia part before posting my comment. Wikipedia seems to have no non-paywalled sources for the statement that it went live "sometime around late 2007". Thanks for the Gwern link, it's interesting.

I used to buy M:TG cards at Mt.Gox back in the day. It was really confusing when I heard they were now a bitcoin exchange

Thorrez 8y ago

Several places online claim it never operated as a M:TG exchange, that was just a plan that never was executed. All the archive.org snapshots seem to show a non-functional site. https://www.wired.com/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/ https://www.wired.com/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bzysz/til_mtgox_was_magic_the_gathering_online_exchange/c9brjl0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bzysz/til_mtgox_w... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412667.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412667.0 https://web.archive.org/web/20070501000000*/http://mtgox.com https://web.archive.org/web/20070501000000*/http://mtgox.com

RL_Quine 8y ago

Nonsense. The site never meaningfully acted in this way, it was at best a tech demo and a coming soon homepage.

Kiro 8y ago

You're lying. Why?

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miles 8y ago

To those saying you could not have traded cards on Mt. Gox: "sometime around late 2007, the service went live for approximately three months before McCaleb moved on to other projects" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding_(2006-10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding_(2006-10) Gwern: "we know the mtgox.com domain had a landing page discussing a forthcoming Magic card trading site (because a 2007 page is in the Internet Archive), but we can't find any evidence that there was any actual trading going on. Did anyone ever actually trade card for card or money for card on Mtgox.com?" McCaleb: "yeah they did" https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2014-mccaleb https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2014-mccaleb

tomc1985 8y ago
Indeed. archive.org isn't helping jog my memory but I was buying cards around 2005-2010 from a number of sites, including Mt.Gox.
Thorrez 8y ago
I did read the Wikipedia part before posting my comment. Wikipedia seems to have no non-paywalled sources for the statement that it went live "sometime around late 2007". Thanks for the Gwern link, it's interesting.