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Founder of Bitcoin Market, the first exchangeEarly adoption✓ Verified
dwdollar
Built the first Bitcoin exchange.
Known as dwdollar, Dustin DollarActive Mar 2010 →
Why they matter
Bitcoin Market turned a published price into an actual marketplace four months before Mt. Gox, giving Bitcoin its first live, market-set price.
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A Bitcointalk user (credited as Dustin Dollar) who proposed an exchange on the forum in January 2010 and launched Bitcoin Market on 17 March 2010 — the first platform where people could buy and sell bitcoin for dollars with one another, initially settling via PayPal, rather than guessing a rate.