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Lest we forget, the original largest crypto exchange was named “Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange” One of the largest tech companies in the world is named a
by ineedasername 6y ago
Lest we forget, the original largest crypto exchange was named “Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange”
One of the largest tech companies in the world is named after a fruit.
Another is named after a very large number
A third started by selling books, is now the largest cloud infrastructure company in the world, and is named after a jungle.
Whether or not BTC or MtGox or both are/were scams, names tend to be pretty irrelevant these days.
- toast0 6y ago> and is named after a jungle. I thought it was named after a river?
- ineedasername 6y agoThe Amazon river runs through the Amazon... I'm not sure if the land area got the name from the river or the other way around. I see some mention of the company name referring to the river, but I wasn't sure if that was apocryphal, and I always associated the river and land together as part of the same thing. I could be wrong, in which case the company is named after a river, and shares the name with a jungle.
- jonathankoren 6y agoBezos would have us believe that the region is named after the company https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/apr/25/amazon-domain-name-battle-brazil https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/apr/25/amazon-d...