= Mt. Gox
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The first <Bitcoin exchange>. Coded as a hack, and they didn't manage to fix the hacks as the site evolved in a major way, which led to massive hacks.
Their creation is clearly visible on the archive history of <bitcoin.org>: https://web.archive.org/web/20100701000000*/bitcoin.org[] which started having massively more archives since <Mt. Gox> opened.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ-TsrK6SuY]
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