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Here's more about Parker Bradley. Despite three months + having passed since the raid, Parker has yet to be charged with jack squat. *sigh* Parker Bradley is a friend of mine, and life isn't too nice for him these days...(get some e-gold and donate it to him). e-gold isn't anonymous cash like in Cryptonomicon or the Grabbe piece, it's just another flavor of money, but one that can be particularly useful, IMO (see below). e-gold provides a level of privacy exceeding credit cards (they don't sell, trade, give away, etc. customer info) but not exceeding bearer stuff, so it's not a good idea for the Jim Bell types.

e-gold (which has so far lasted since 1996) andOmniPay (I work for them, not e-gold, and I speak only for myself) are doing fine, actually. I'd like lots of Slashdot folks to try the stuff, because you tend to be programmers, and nice things happen when programmers play with e-gold. I'd like for Slashdot-like sites to sell mod points (a quickly expiring currency) so I've offered a ten-gram reward for it (about 80-90 bucks' worth, at the moment, so not much). I'd like for folks to think of e-gold for the cool stuff that can be done with it. Using the shopping cart as a tipjar and direct, voluntary donations to musicians might solve the Napster problem someday, IMO. e-gold is a bit tough to understand at first (grams as a currency?!?) although selling gold (a very emotional substance with humans, still, whether it's electronic or physical) can be a business where it's very hard to love *every* single customer...Mostly it's fascinating and lots of fun. The currency is growing pretty fast without much marketing budget, in part because of the "fan club" of sites like BananaGold and cool directories maintained by others. It's very nice for me.

Anyway, if folks on Slashdot want to try it, I have a promotional account, so just send me your account number and I can click you some (not much, I don't toss this stuff around like Paypal, but OTOH we're in the black...) gratis. Thanks.
JMR

Here's more about Parker Bradley. Despite three months + having passed since the raid, Parker has yet to be charged with jack squat. *sigh* Parker Bradley is a friend of mine, and life isn't too nice for him these days...(get some e-gold and donate it to him). e-gold isn't anonymous cash like in Cryptonomicon or the Grabbe piece, it's just another flavor of money, but one that can be particularly useful, IMO (see below). e-gold provides a level of privacy exceeding credit cards (they don't sell, trade, give away, etc. customer info) but not exceeding bearer stuff, so it's not a good idea for the Jim Bell types.

e-gold (which has so far lasted since 1996) andOmniPay (I work for them, not e-gold, and I speak only for myself) are doing fine, actually. I'd like lots of Slashdot folks to try the stuff, because you tend to be programmers, and nice things happen when programmers play with e-gold. I'd like for Slashdot-like sites to sell mod points (a quickly expiring currency) so I've offered a ten-gram reward for it (about 80-90 bucks' worth, at the moment, so not much). I'd like for folks to think of e-gold for the cool stuff that can be done with it. Using the shopping cart as a tipjar and direct, voluntary donations to musicians might solve the Napster problem someday, IMO. e-gold is a bit tough to understand at first (grams as a currency?!?) although selling gold (a very emotional substance with humans, still, whether it's electronic or physical) can be a business where it's very hard to love *every* single customer...Mostly it's fascinating and lots of fun. The currency is growing pretty fast without much marketing budget, in part because of the "fan club" of sites like BananaGold and cool directories maintained by others. It's very nice for me.

Anyway, if folks on Slashdot want to try it, I have a promotional account, so just send me your account number and I can click you some (not much, I don't toss this stuff around like Paypal, but OTOH we're in the black...) gratis. Thanks.
JMR

Here's more about Parker Bradley. Despite three months + having passed since the raid, Parker has yet to be charged with jack squat. *sigh* Parker Bradley is a friend of mine, and life isn't too nice for him these days...(get some e-gold and donate it to him). e-gold isn't anonymous cash like in Cryptonomicon or the Grabbe piece, it's just another flavor of money, but one that can be particularly useful, IMO (see below). e-gold provides a level of privacy exceeding credit cards (they don't sell, trade, give away, etc. customer info) but not exceeding bearer stuff, so it's not a good idea for the Jim Bell types.

e-gold (which has so far lasted since 1996) andOmniPay (I work for them, not e-gold, and I speak only for myself) are doing fine, actually. I'd like lots of Slashdot folks to try the stuff, because you tend to be programmers, and nice things happen when programmers play with e-gold. I'd like for Slashdot-like sites to sell mod points (a quickly expiring currency) so I've offered a ten-gram reward for it (about 80-90 bucks' worth, at the moment, so not much). I'd like for folks to think of e-gold for the cool stuff that can be done with it. Using the shopping cart as a tipjar and direct, voluntary donations to musicians might solve the Napster problem someday, IMO. e-gold is a bit tough to understand at first (grams as a currency?!?) although selling gold (a very emotional substance with humans, still, whether it's electronic or physical) can be a business where it's very hard to love *every* single customer...Mostly it's fascinating and lots of fun. The currency is growing pretty fast without much marketing budget, in part because of the "fan club" of sites like BananaGold and cool directories maintained by others. It's very nice for me.

Anyway, if folks on Slashdot want to try it, I have a promotional account, so just send me your account number and I can click you some (not much, I don't toss this stuff around like Paypal, but OTOH we're in the black...) gratis. Thanks.
JMR

Here's more about Parker Bradley. Despite three months + having passed since the raid, Parker has yet to be charged with jack squat. *sigh* Parker Bradley is a friend of mine, and life isn't too nice for him these days...(get some e-gold and donate it to him). e-gold isn't anonymous cash like in Cryptonomicon or the Grabbe piece, it's just another flavor of money, but one that can be particularly useful, IMO (see below). e-gold provides a level of privacy exceeding credit cards (they don't sell, trade, give away, etc. customer info) but not exceeding bearer stuff, so it's not a good idea for the Jim Bell types.

e-gold (which has so far lasted since 1996) andOmniPay (I work for them, not e-gold, and I speak only for myself) are doing fine, actually. I'd like lots of Slashdot folks to try the stuff, because you tend to be programmers, and nice things happen when programmers play with e-gold. I'd like for Slashdot-like sites to sell mod points (a quickly expiring currency) so I've offered a ten-gram reward for it (about 80-90 bucks' worth, at the moment, so not much). I'd like for folks to think of e-gold for the cool stuff that can be done with it. Using the shopping cart as a tipjar and direct, voluntary donations to musicians might solve the Napster problem someday, IMO. e-gold is a bit tough to understand at first (grams as a currency?!?) although selling gold (a very emotional substance with humans, still, whether it's electronic or physical) can be a business where it's very hard to love *every* single customer...Mostly it's fascinating and lots of fun. The currency is growing pretty fast without much marketing budget, in part because of the "fan club" of sites like BananaGold and cool directories maintained by others. It's very nice for me.

Anyway, if folks on Slashdot want to try it, I have a promotional account, so just send me your account number and I can click you some (not much, I don't toss this stuff around like Paypal, but OTOH we're in the black...) gratis. Thanks.
JMR

No, that's not what happened to e-gold.com. That's what happened to Gold-Age.net, which, frankly, doesn't have the most confidence-inspiring website.

E-gold is still around.

No, that's not what happened to e-gold.com. That's what happened to Gold-Age.net, which, frankly, doesn't have the most confidence-inspiring website.

E-gold is still around.

Oh gods. What a day/week to be slashdotted (finally). Also, I wish that wired and /. headline writers respectively would either read the actual story they're referring to, or share their drug stashes with everyone else. *sigh*

Ok, I'll start with my standard offer of a small spend to any slashdotter interested in creating an e-gold account & sending me the number (goodbye promotional account balance!). I'll also try to answer any questions sent to me (but please poke around on the site and find out about us first, the concept of grams as money can be a bit strange but it's fun to discover). Alright...

So far, law enforcement AFAIK (and I'd know....) has not contacted either e-gold or OmniPay regarding this case. I am in touch with Parker, and he has set up an e-gold account with a publicly viewable balance at: http://www.e-gold.com/pub-bal.asp?pubid=280478

I doubt the SS will do anything like what you say, the experience of my friend, the artist J.S.G. Boggs (who is the yin to e-gold's yang, IMO) speaks to that, although Parker's isn't a counterfeiting case (and neither was that one IMO). Both are political. It's sad, frankly.
JMR

Oh gods. What a day/week to be slashdotted (finally). Also, I wish that wired and /. headline writers respectively would either read the actual story they're referring to, or share their drug stashes with everyone else. *sigh*

Ok, I'll start with my standard offer of a small spend to any slashdotter interested in creating an e-gold account & sending me the number (goodbye promotional account balance!). I'll also try to answer any questions sent to me (but please poke around on the site and find out about us first, the concept of grams as money can be a bit strange but it's fun to discover). Alright...

So far, law enforcement AFAIK (and I'd know....) has not contacted either e-gold or OmniPay regarding this case. I am in touch with Parker, and he has set up an e-gold account with a publicly viewable balance at: http://www.e-gold.com/pub-bal.asp?pubid=280478

I doubt the SS will do anything like what you say, the experience of my friend, the artist J.S.G. Boggs (who is the yin to e-gold's yang, IMO) speaks to that, although Parker's isn't a counterfeiting case (and neither was that one IMO). Both are political. It's sad, frankly.
JMR

The company in question is GoldAge, not e-Gold...if you take a look at the site, it does beg the question of legitimacy... http://www.gold-age.net/ga-post-index.html