Bitcoin's Biggest Early Exchange Was Built on a Trading Post for Fantasy Cards
17 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments SimpleSwap
Mt. Gox went live in 17th July 2010. Sixteen years later, its story is still the clearest reason self-custody tools exist. The domain mtgox.com wasn’t built for bitcoin. In 2007, programmer Jed McCaleb registered it for a stranger purpose: a marketpl...