I ran the '2nd' known Bitcoin <> fiat exchange service, using Liberty Reserve (now defunct - with my totally legally earned Forex trading funds being 'confiscated' when LR was shut down).
I had a basic website with contact information and a simple pricing widget, but the few successful trades I conducted were all manual and done via email. I certainly did not accept credit cards either and none of the trades I conducted totalled more than $10 in fiat value, at that time.
Before the BitcoinMarket exchange was established, there was someone in the US who made exchanges by accepting cash in the mail. I don't recall who that was and I think they also deleted most of their post history.
I just checked the way back machine archive and no copies of my website exist during the time it was online, which was for less than a few months, probably. I used a free .cc.cz domain with my forum account name. It was hosted for free on weebly.
There are waybackmachine snapshots of it. This is the earliest one. It says "Our maximum Exchange per request is currently 2500 BTC or $10 LR USD" on the homepage.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100617031313/http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/This is all the snapshots on the waybackmachine. The second one says "Available Bitcoins = 15,000 BTC".
https://web.archive.org/web/20100601000000*/http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/
Thanks for correcting me on Bitcoin's history. I thought Bitcoin Market was the second exchange. You should be in the history books (and in the wiki).
Before the BitcoinMarket exchange was established, there was someone in the US who made exchanges by accepting cash in the mail. I don't recall who that was and I think they also deleted most of their post history.
That might have been the user called Vinnie who ran
http://bitcoin2cash.com/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2508This is a quote of the first waybackmachine snapshot of his site on July 16, 2010.
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