Cryptocurrency exchanges at the dawn of the blockchain era

The first online exchange where you could trade bitcoins,

New Liberty Standard, appeared in October 2009, almost a year after the launch of the bitcoin blockchain. Around the same time, the first purchase of BTC for dollars took place.

In 2009, few people knew about bitcoin - it was an interesting experiment for bored coders and ideological anarchists. Trading was carried out on amateur platforms, which New Liberty Standard was, rather for experimental purposes. Moreover, the exchange itself was launched six months before Laszlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas from Papa John's, which cost him 10,000 BTC.

Immediately after the creation of the platform, you could buy about a thousand bitcoins for one dollar.$BTC