Quote from: Darker45 on Today at 01:11:42 AM

There were already exchanges before Mt. Gox came into the picture, centralized exchanges. But, of course, the Bitcoin community at that time was small and close-knit. They probably knew each other and linked to each other in one way or another. So, at the start, it was purely peer to peer exchanges. Also, it was much easier to mine Bitcoin yourself. You don't need to have a powerful ASIC to be able to mine. So you can get fresh Bitcoin yourself.

Quote from: franky1 on February 27, 2024, 08:53:47 PM

"bitcoin market" was first fiat-btc exchange
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20.msg726#msg726

new liberty standard was another
bitmarket.eu
bitomat
then mtgox
then bitcoinica
then btc-e
then others followed

There was also Bitcoinexchange.com, the platform developed by Martti Malmi, Sirius here. Sirius made the announcement about it on March 02, 2010. Satoshi supported the exchange himself/herself/themselves, and somehow even made sure that there's actually available fiat in case somebody wants to sell.

they were still test trading in march 2010, i think they done first real trade in april
but yes bitocinexchange existed too in 2020 era