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Founder of Mt. GoxEarly adoption✓ Verified
Jed McCaleb
Built Bitcoin's first dominant exchange.
Known as Jed McCalebActive Jul 2010 →
Why they matter
Mt. Gox gave the early market a place to set a price and trade at scale. Its later 2014 collapse, under different ownership, became one of Bitcoin's defining cautionary tales.
Profile
Programmer (creator of the eDonkey network) who in July 2010 turned his domain Mt. Gox — originally a Magic: The Gathering card exchange — into a Bitcoin exchange, then sold it in 2011. He later co-founded Ripple and Stellar.