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Mt. Gox is short for "Magic The Gathering Online Exchange", and the site's focus was on virtual trading of cards for Magic Online rather than cryptocurrency.
by Dwedit 2y ago
Mt. Gox is short for "Magic The Gathering Online Exchange", and the site's focus was on virtual trading of cards for Magic Online rather than cryptocurrency.
- Ancapistani 2y agoNo. That was the original intent for the domain, but to my knowledge it was never launched.
- ohmyiv 2y agoYes. According to the creator, it did. It just wasn't that popular and he switched to a different game, The Far Wilds, for a bit, then pivoted to bitcoin (with entirely different code). The interview was in 2014 and edited with proof on wikipedia, so I'm surprised people still believe it wasn't a trading card site. https://web.archive.org/web/20220811085644/https://www.gwern.net/docs/bitcoin/2014-mccaleb https://web.archive.org/web/20220811085644/https://www.gwern...