Claim

Mt. Gox DEVELOPED_BY Jed McCaleb

Jed McCaleb reused the mtgox.com domain to start Mt. Gox and personally created the site from scratch.

Episode
EP 9 — The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Jack Rhysider
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“Jed McCaleb took an interest in Bitcoin and he had an old domain lying around called mtgox.com”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 2079–2173

“He was a web developer and personally created the site from scratch.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 6991–7059

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-12T18:01:10.141319+00:00

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