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What boggles the mind is Mt Gox started as a site for trading Magic The Gathering cards. I suppose in the code btc was just a special type MTG card? Incredible

• dangrossman 13y ago
  There was never a MTG trading card site on that domain. This is a myth you should stop spreading.
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  • snorkel 13y ago
    Well if that's so untrue then you should take your mythbusting campaign to the Mt Gox page on WikiPedia where it clearly states this was the original intent of their business. Mt Gox stands for "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange", does it not?
    • dllthomas 13y ago
      It was almost certainly the intent on purchasing the domain, but that doesn't establish that one was actually running. My understanding of what evidence is available leads me to think it never was (particularly a lack of anyone posting anything about the domain in conjunction with Magic anywhere except comments like the above).
    • dangrossman 13y ago
      Stripe.com once hosted a gallery of Furby pictures. Does that mean we should blame any bugs in their payment platform on misbehaving toys? No, previous hypothetical uses of the domain (by a different owner no less; Jed McCaleb who registered the domain and Mark Karpeles who owns it today are different people) are irrelevant, and mtgox.com does not stand for that.
  • Crito 13y ago
    Indeed, it seems relatively apparent that the name was originally related to MTG, and the original person had plans to create a MTG website, but I have never seen any evidence to suggest that a MTG trading website was actually created, let alone then re-purposed to be a bitcoin exchange. There are plenty of things to find stunning or hilarious about mtgox without making things up.