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2010
Event
milestone
Mt. Gox launches as a Bitcoin exchange
What happened
Jed McCaleb relaunched the Mt. Gox domain as a Bitcoin exchange, giving the market a central venue to trade BTC for dollars.
Significance
Mt. Gox became the dominant early exchange and, later, the site of a catastrophic 2014 collapse — a defining arc of Bitcoin's first era.
People involved
Related events
- Mt. Gox collapsesthe same exchange, four years later64
- Bitcoin Market opens — the first exchangethe first exchange, four months before Mt. Gox56
- Bitcoin reaches parity with the US dollara real market made dollar parity legible54
- Bitcoin hits the Slashdot front pagethe traffic spike that sent a flood of new users to the exchanges52