April 2007

On April 24, 2007, a Federal Grand Jury handed down an indictment charging e-gold Ltd., Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc., and the Directors of both companies with money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitter business, and conspiracies to commit both offenses.

Dr. Douglas Jackson, Chairman and Founder of e-gold, speaking on behalf of his fellow Directors and both companies vigorously denies the charges...

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April 2007

e-gold Users now have additional protection against "phishing attacks", thanks to a ground breaking upgrade to its Account Sentinel™ (a.k.a. AccSent(tm)) arsenal of account access security features.

Using DNS blacklist data published by well known third parties, AccSent now blocks account access from IPs identified as open proxies, insecure web servers, or otherwise open to exploitation by criminals. For the sake of brevity, e-gold refers to such blacklisted IPs as "blips".

As always, the AccSent advantage is that e-gold Users need not take any action - or even understand what an IP address, an open proxy, or a phishing attack is - to immediately benefit from this innovative new feature. However, as powerful as AccSent is, the best protection against phishing and other criminal attacks is user education. For this reason e-gold urges its Users to carefully read and practice the Security Recommendations published on the e-gold.com website.

February 2007

On October 12, 2006, the Safe Ports Act was signed into law in the United States. As a result of the Safe Ports Act and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 contained in the Safe Ports Act, the facilitation of many forms of Internet gambling by persons located in the United States has become a proscribed activity. With the objective of preventing the use of e-gold by United States persons for unlawful online gambling, e-gold has deployed a feature whereby any e-gold account holder may configure their e-gold account(s) to block incoming e-gold Spends from accounts controlled by Users residing inside the United States or who are accessing the Internet from within the United States. Online gambling businesses using e-gold are now required to enable this new account attribute.

December 2006

"While other payment systems have come and gone losing millions of investment dollars e‑gold has continued to successfully serve its customers. It has flourished due to its strong fundamental principles of freedom from default and finality of settlement. e-gold has always held true to meeting its User obligations. When merchants are paid they stay paid, and consumers can make payments without compromising their personal information online."

Read the full press release here.

March 2006

Eighteen of the world’s most prominent financial institutions and Internet industry leaders have joined with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and its sister organization, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) in the fight against Internet child pornography. The goal is to eradicate commercial child pornography by 2008.

Press release available here.

February 2006

e-gold is pleased to deploy a feature empowering e-gold Users to refuse payments from "Blocked accounts". "Blocked accounts" are blocked from receiving payments due to insufficient identifying information and/or e-gold invoking its Right of Association. The new feature enables Users to reduce the possibility of receiving payments from potentially unscrupulous counterparties. The default setting (User may view/change via "Account Info") refuses payment from Blocked accounts.

January 2006

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May 2004

e-gold Users now have some serious protection against "phishing" attacks, and its name is Account Sentinel™ (a.k.a. AccSent™)...

AccSent monitors account access attempts and issues a one-time PIN challenge to those coming from IP address ranges or browsers that differ from the last authorized account access. The AccSent advantage is that e-gold Users need not take any action - or even understand what an IP address or a phishing attack is - to immediately benefit from this innovative new feature. However, as powerful as AccSent is, the best protection against phishing and other criminal attacks is user education.

December 2003

November 2003

In the third week of November 2003, the 1 millionth e-gold account was created!

February 2003

The e-gold Shopping Cart just got even easier to use. How can you accept e-gold online? It's now as easy as putting up a link like this:

http://100998.e-gold.com/

on your web page. Users clicking the link will be taken straight to a payment form at the e-gold site ready to pay your account. Visit the e-gold Programmer's Information page to generate your own shortcut link.

February 2003

Frequent visitors to the e-gold web site use the following shortcut URLs to go straight to the page they are interested in:

use.e-gold.com		Account Access
stats.e-gold.com		System Statistics
sci.e-gold.com		Programmer's Page
prices.e-gold.com		Exchange Rates
talk.e-gold.com		E-Mail Lists

July 2001

"In theory a grandmother in Bangladesh with a few grams of gold could get access to the global financial system for the first time"

Read the complete July 10 report online.

April 2001

"One company, E-gold, already allows online users to settle payments using its currency, which is 100% backed by gold. Ownership of the gold changes, but the physical bullion stays put with the company, which is based on the Caribbean island of Nevis. The system also is transparent: Holders have real-time access to the total amount of e-gold in circulation, and the company's total bullion reserves."

Read the complete article entitled "Making New Money" in the April 23, 2001 issue of Barron's.

"[e-gold] is a fascinating concept and it merits the attention of everyone interested in helping to resolve the world's monetary dilemma."

That's what James E. Ewart has to say about e-gold in his book "Money". Head on over to Principia Publishing and use e-gold to pick up a copy of the book for yourself. You'll have the same edition (first printing of first edition) on your coffee table as the founder of e-gold has on his. Gorgeous large colour photographs of US paper currency. Discover the difference between "currency" and "money" among other topics.

Have your own book to sell? Do what Principia Publishing did and use the e-gold shopping cart interface to sell it from your own web site.

February 2001

e-gold Bullion Reserve inspected

The e-gold bullion reserve was inspected by Central Escrow Agency on February 22, 2001.  The results of that inspection are published here.

The e-gold system provides a method for merchants (large and small) to accept e-gold payments. Receive notification via email or HTTPS connection from our secure server that you have received payment.
Take a look at our shopping cart interface specification and our Interactive Calculator to compare the cost of doing business with Credit Cards vs. e-gold.

If you're a programmer looking to use e-gold in an inventive application - we've got the information you need. See the Automation Interface details on our Programmer's Information page.

Mal's e-commerce and PayForIt have integrated the e-gold shopping cart into their shopping cart products if you wish to leave the coding to someone else.
 

e-gold Ltd. assumes responsibility for e-gold family of currencies

e-gold Ltd., a Nevis Corporation, has taken over as bailee, assuming responsibility for performance of the e-gold Account Agreement, the integrity of the e-gold balance sheet, and governance of the e-gold system. G&SR, now a customer of the e-gold system, will focus exclusively on exchange.  This event will be the catalyst for major changes in the e-gold system in the upcoming year.  Follow the transition here.

• Historical e-gold Exchange rate chart. Click here to view a java applet displaying exchange rates since the birth of the e-gold system.
  
• Waterken Inc. accepts e-gold for its online payments capabilities. Visit waterken and read about smart contracts and capability based objects.
  
• e-gold was covered by Tim Jackson's "On The Web" column in the 13 July 1999 edition of Financial Times: "...e-gold is the only electronic currency that has achieved critical mass on the web ."

For an example of how a very simple e-gold store might look on your homepage, visit an e-gold sample store. This particular implementation is aimed at users that do not have access to their own web server machines and/or cgi/asp capability. The store utilizes the e-gold shopping cart interface specification.

Have a rant about the future of the e-gold economy, a question relating to an e-gold business idea that you're not even sure who to ask? Want to communicate to a relevant audience that your business accepts e-gold, or do you just want to lurk to hear what's being said on the topic of e-gold? Then join the e-gold discussion mailing list.

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