I wish people would stop repeating this.

The domain was just reused, the site was never actually sold cards.

The current owner has absolutely nothing to do with the original domain name.

He didn't say anything about the current owner, only the original intent of the name. Even then, I think your reaction might be a little over the top.

The insinuation is that the current site is somehow tainted by it's use back in 2007, but as far as I can find [1] it was never anything but a "coming soon"page.

It's fairly common to ridicule it's current use in the Bitcoin world by associating the currency exchange with playing cards.

[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20070817170606/http://mtgox.com/g...

Why would anyone consider mtg something worthy of ridicule?

The same reason they consider bitcoin worthy of ridicule.

Because it's a game played by nerds. :)

But seriously, associating MtGox with a place to sell playing cards might detract from the serious intentions of the site. Idk.

No way. MTG is super awesome; the fact that Mt.Gox is indirectly linked to Magic only makes it cooler.

Nop, mtgox stand for "MagicalTux" aka Mark Karpeles who was historically called "MT".

Source : Close friend and : https://twitter.com/magicaltux

These people are not my close friends (I occasionally contacted them by IRC or E-mail for support, probably more often their employees) but

I am pretty sure that Jed was the person who started the business, and he sold it to MagicalTux. This would indicate that it's a coincidence that MT in MagicalTux is like MT in MtGox. Maybe MagicalTux chose his nickname for this reason.

I know MagicalTux since 1999. So when I said "close friend" I meant, I was used to call him "MT" in real life 13 years ago.

So, he also knew Jed for so long and the service was named with him in mind?

Or I am totally wrong about the origin of the service...