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Re:Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox by shiftpgdn on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:16AM (#5537578)
Here is something with a bit of substance: http://web.archive.org/web/20070817170606/http://mtgox.com/g...
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Re:Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox by FooBarWidget on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:32AM (#5537651)
That only proves that the domain was used for something else in the past. So what?
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Re:Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday April 12, 2013 @07:21AM (#5537815)
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.
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Re:Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox by pyre on Friday April 12, 2013 @08:08AM (#5537944)
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?"
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Re:Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday April 12, 2013 @08:10AM (#5537951)
Magic the Gathering is often abbreviated to MtG.
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Re:Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox by sjs382 on Friday April 12, 2013 @09:44AM (#5538399)
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.
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Re:Mt.Gox does not mean "Mount" Gox by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday April 12, 2013 @09:49AM (#5538428)
Well, "MtGox" could be read "Mt. Gox", it's probably intentional that they made it also sound like the name of a mountain.
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