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Funny you should mention MtG, since the first big crypto exchange collapse was MtGox. I always thought it was "Mt. Gox", like a mountain of sorts. Turns out it
by klodolph 4y ago
Funny you should mention MtG, since the first big crypto exchange collapse was MtGox.
I always thought it was "Mt. Gox", like a mountain of sorts. Turns out it's Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange.
Edit: MtG seems like it has some kind of evergreen popularity, and various format changes, changes in the list of banned cards, reprints, and changes in the metagame will mean that prices of individual cards can vary wildly over time. So if something was sold for a ridiculous price a couple times, it's possible that something changed (Targmogoyf used to be very expensive, for example).
Wizards seems pretty good at catering to a variety of players, both collectors and non-collectors.
- wyldfire 4y agoIt did pivot away from its ancestry and at that point it was indeed referred to as "Mount Gox".
- mikepurvis 4y agoIndeed, and that's even the branding used in the Wikipedia article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox
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- DonHopkins 4y agoNot to be confused with the Berkeley Unix software company called "Mt Xinu". (The operating system's name is a recursive acronym, while the company's name is a backwards spelling.) "We know UNIX TM backwards and forwards." -Mt Xinu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MtXinu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MtXinu Famous for the great posters they handed out at Usenix: "4.2 > V" BSD -vs- System V, X-Wing / Death Star Poster https://www.ericconrad.com/2008/12/ https://www.ericconrad.com/2008/12/ I love all the old telephone equipment in the explosion!
- milesvp 4y agoThe old magic the gathering game blog had a lot of good game design topics. One of the articles talked about the 3 or 4 player archtypes they tried to design for. Worth the potential rabbit hole. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/timmy-johnny-and-spike-2013-12-03 https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/t...
- conscion 4y agoThis is only half true. From Wikipedia [1], the name did originally stand for Magic The Gathering Online eXchange, but the domain was only used for that purpose for a couple months in 2007. When it launched as a Bitcoin exchange in 2010, the unused domain was "Mt. Gox" from the beginning. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding_(2006%E2%80%932010) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding_(2006%E2%80...
- userbinator 4y agoProbably similar to you, I also heard of MtGox first via crypto, and thought it was an obvious reference to Fort Knox. Only later did I realise the original meaning.
- v64 4y agoAnother intersting wrinkle is that the original MtGox was created by Jed McCaleb, co-creator of eDonkey, who was later involved with the cryptocurrencies Ripple and Stellar Lumens.
- Version467 4y agoWhat?! Now that's what I call a fun fact. I didn't know about those roots at all. Thanks for sharing.