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by elvinyung 2288 days ago
I guess the word "magic" is cursed. General Magic, GetMagic.com, and now this (not that we didn't see it coming)...
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Magic the Gathering still going strong in its 26th year. Performing alchemy transmuting cardboard into gold.
Magic the Gathering Online Exchange isn't, lol.
Well duh. Collectibles are basically non-fungible by definition. How are you going to have an automated exchange for them?

/s

The founder may very well have walked away with 200,000 bitcoins, so was it really cursed for the founders?
Also Industrial Light and Magic was/is? very successful.
Magic Radio as well, at least according to this article https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/04/magic-r...
what happened to getmagic? I thought they're doing ok