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New Bitcoin Exchange (mtgox.com)
The mtgox account announces a new bitcoin exchange at mtgox.com in three lines and a link on the Exchanges board, and asks the forum what it thinks.
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Event Added Updated Biography
Jed McCaleb (1975–) — built Mt. Gox, then built two chains designed to remove mining
Created Mt. Gox in 2010 and sold it in 2011, then co-created the XRP Ledger and Stellar. He says the whitepaper convinced him the double-spend problem was solvable at all.
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Satoshi ↔ Martti Malmi Correspondence
Malmi reports that a Django-powered prototype of bitcoinexchange.com is running and discusses plans for hyperbolic supply-demand pricing.
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First Bitcoin sale for fiat — Martti Malmi sells 5,050 BTC for $5.02
Martti Malmi sells 5,050 BTC to NewLibertyStandard for $5.02 via PayPal — the first known Bitcoin-to-fiat exchange, establishing a real-world price of ~$0.001 per BTC.
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Before Mt. Gox: the first Bitcoin exchanges, and the one Satoshi would not run
Four exchanges opened between October 2009 and July 2010, none of them Satoshi's: NewLibertyStandard, Malmi's bitcoinexchange.com, Bitcoin Market and Mt. Gox. Satoshi advised from the sidelines.
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Re: Bitcoin - First exchange proposal
Malmi proposes a Bitcoin-to-euro exchange service. Satoshi answers with a fixed support-price idea and says he will not run an exchange himself; Malmi's own bitcoinexchange.com followed in 2010.
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Satoshi to Mike Hearn on peer-to-peer marketplace (April 14, 2009)
Satoshi mentions implementing a marketplace feature like eBay and offers to send Mike coins for testing.