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Hacker News says Mt. Gox doesn't mean "Mount Gox", and cites Wikipedia.

Wikipedia says the name was originally "Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange" and cites The Verge.

The Verge says the same and cites... Hacker News.

I still believe it, but circular citation is often cause to raise an eyebrow or two!

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Citogenesis

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citogenesis.png

Here is something with a bit of substance: http://web.archive.org/web/20070817170606/http://mtgox.com/g...

That only proves that the domain was used for something else in the past. So what?

The page's title is "MTG Online Exchange" and refers to itself as Mt. Gox and MTGOX.COM. It's fairly clear they are the same entity.

What I don't get is that if it's an acronym for "Magic the Gathering Online eXchange," then why do they write it as "Mt. Gox?" Wouldn't that translate to, "Magic the. Gathering Online eXchange?"

Magic the Gathering is often abbreviated to MtG.

I think he's asking why they had the ". " in the middle of the name. It would make sense if Magic The Gathering was often abbreviated as Mt.G but that seems unlikely.

Well, "MtGox" could be read "Mt. Gox", it's probably intentional that they made it also sound like the name of a mountain.

FWIW, the nickname of Mark Karpeles (the CEO) is MagicalTux, and we used to call him "MT".

Anyone know if Wikipedia has any tools to detect that sort of thing?

At least they acknowledge the problem these days and claim to take care.

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