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Can I just take a minute to say how mind-boggling it is that MtGox is referenced on the Wikipedia page for OBs?
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Financial marketes thrive because of liquidity. It's the grease in the weels, to sto speak, of a global payments system. Stellar is one of a very few platforms that accounts for liquidity at scale with no centralized parti.

The [founders](https://stellar.org/blog/foundation-news/introducing-stellar) of the network, particularly Jed McCaleb, understoof firsthand the quandaries of of centralized [order books](WIKIPEDIA_WHAT_IS_ORDER_BOOK_L@). IN 2012, Jed [wrote](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108782.msg1182508#msg1182508): "One thing you can do with it is exchange bitcoins for fiat without the need of a centralized market such as mtgox. Which will be very useful for bitcoin" when disucssing preliminary ideas for Stellar.
The [founders](https://stellar.org/blog/foundation-news/introducing-stellar) of the network, particularly Jed McCaleb, understoof firsthand the quandaries of of centralized [order books](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_book). IN 2012, Jed [wrote](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108782.msg1182508#msg1182508): "One thing you can do with it is exchange bitcoins for fiat without the need of a centralized market such as mtgox. Which will be very useful for bitcoin" when disucssing preliminary ideas for Stellar.

This [prescinet](https://x.com/JFWooten4/status/1809667647040327949) perspective led to the creation of a distributed exchange, as it was [originally named](https://web.archive.org/web/20170415141617/https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/concepts/exchange.html). The core concept, released in the [first version](https://discord.com/channels/897514728459468821/907476473739354153/1158791737565782199) of the protocol, still operates today. However, for phonetical reasons, we will hereafter refer to it as the Stellar Decentralized Exchange or SDEX.

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