[e-gold-list] Analysis of e-gold trends: e-gold transaction volume is down 60% but revenues are up 94%

2002-09-29 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Patrick, Your charts shed some important light on the subject that the transaction volume alone did not show. Where did you obtain the number of spends and other data? The additional information you provided with the average spend size and the number of spends is very enlightening for the

[e-gold-list] Dismissed without Prejudice

2002-09-27 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Does dismissed without prejudice mean that GoldMoney has the option to bring the suit again at a later date? If it is so crystal clear that e-gold is infringing upon the GM patent, then why does GM require a stay in order to prove it? It should have been pretty simple if GM actually had a

[e-gold-list] Re: Dismissed without Prejudice

2002-09-27 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
So, if GM can bring the suit again in the future it still isn't a dead issue. Both sides are trying to spin this as if they won something, when really it was a stalemate. I guess we will probably see round two of the match sometime next year... --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list

[e-gold-list] Positioning

2002-09-27 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
In GM's press release it is interesting that Mr. Turk framed the patent issue as if it has some relevance to the failure of Standard Reserve and OS Gold. His comments suggest that he view GoldMoney's role as being the ethical police force of the gold currency industry. Really a patent has

[e-gold-list] Shhh... Here is a big secret!

2002-09-26 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Please give me one reason why I should not be gravely dissapointed in hearing that you are basing the New Debit card in the most Gasthpho Country since Germany in Wold War II? The IRS here is compleatly lawless. This may be true. However, it doesn't matter where in the world your debit card

[e-gold-list] size of the gold economy?

2002-09-25 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
I've been keeping a running guestimate of the size of the gold economy for the past couple of years. I'm working on updating it. Does anyone have any reasonable records as to e-gold's average daily transaction volume in USD equivalent? --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as:

[e-gold-list] Re: just a sapling

2002-09-19 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
The systems in place today can only handle a certain transaction volume. If the rate of growth is too fast then the system becomes overloaded, customer service response time becomes inadequate and customers are displeased. If the gold economy is to support mission critical business applications

[e-gold-list] Scalability

2002-09-19 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Hello Art, All I am saying is that a sudden increase in transaction and sales volume on the order of 200 - 1000 percent requires an upgrade in hardware and possibly software. Steady growth, maybe 100% per year or less, is preferable to sudden exponential growth. A house built over a year is

[e-gold-list] Re: SR (was Re: Maybe they're winning

2002-09-18 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
George, Why do you say the gold economy seems to be falling apart? Business is booming as customers from the companies that bombed have gone over to the remaining companies in the field. Ken --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank

[e-gold-list] just a sapling

2002-09-18 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Dave Brooks makes an excellent point. The gold economy is like a sapling in a forest of oak trees.Very little light gets down to the forest floor because the big oaks shade it out. Right now we are putting out a root system. The sapling doesn't look like much but the network is developing.

[e-gold-list] Funding Accounts Customer Service

2002-09-12 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Jim Davidson made some comments recently on this list concerning E-Bullion customer service that bear some further explanation. While we are very grateful for his positive comments regarding E-Bullion customer service, it is important to clarify that The E-Bullion Company does not perform

[e-gold-list] Anonymity

2002-09-10 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Just for the record, there is not any e-currency presently in operation that offers anonymous transactions. An account number is an identifier that in most cases is linked to data including a name of the benificiary of the account. If the e-currency company does not require the beneficiary name

[e-gold-list] Password Control

2002-08-20 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Fellow members of the Gold Economy, As you will all remember, on Monday a message was posted to the e-gold list and Goldmoney list from Patrick of AnyGoldNow reporting that close to $3000 dollars was transferred from his account by persons unknown to him. Further messages were posted during the

[e-gold-list] Re: On the outright laughability of internet democracy

2002-08-10 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Stated more succinctly: information technology + financial cryptography + weapons of mass destruction = the state is definitively obsolete, but no one has realized it yet. In 100 years no one will give a rip about democracy. The states will be so small that it won't really matter. It will be

[e-gold-list] Re: there's one for you Jim Jim ..

2002-08-03 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Precious metals dealers put a bid and ask price on their web site to indicate the price spread of buying from or selling to that particular dealer. Kitco, being a dealer has a bid and ask price. Maybe the tech who put the graph together didn't understand that fact. --- You are currently

[e-gold-list] Cardster?

2002-07-21 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Has anyone used the Visa Electron card issued by Cardster and fundable with gold currency? http://www.cardster.net/anonymous_offshore_visa_electron.htm What do you think of this company? I noticed the application form is not a secure page. That worries me as to whether the company is legit.

[e-gold-list] Re: Dow:Au 27.41

2002-07-14 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
http://quote.yahoo.com/m2?u How interesting. Look at that chart of world stock market indices. With the exception of Peru, all of the countries experiencing falling stock markets have embraced strong population control measures, either voluntarily, or in the case of China, involuntarily. The

[e-gold-list] spare gold

2002-06-05 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Doug Jackson has personally told me on two occasions that there is more gold in the trust than the amount of e-gold on the books. Assuming that this is still the case, the extra gold is owned by the trust for the benefit of all the account holders. Since the trust owns the gold bars for the

[e-gold-list] Spare gold

2002-06-02 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Eventually they need to very simply explain why the e-gold trust has - simple fact - *too much gold in it* (note point ii before responding, dear readers!) Again, anyone who can do so, please simply state in English typing what that extra gold in the trust is. (If you don't DEFINITIVELY

[e-gold-list] Re: New Report

2002-05-23 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
All this made me realize that there is only 1 form of true money; physical gold in your own safe. You are technically correct. Money is defined as a physical commodity that is most easily exchanged for other things. Gold and silver are money. Notes denominated in gold or silver are money

[e-gold-list] Kick that dead horse one more time.

2002-05-23 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Hello Claude, Why? WHat exactly in the user agreement should be changed so its constitutte true title. I read it many times and it seems clear. The GM user agreement is fine, as long as they can deliver on the promises made in the user agreement. Their current system cannot deliver on one of

[e-gold-list] Claim, Title and Risk

2002-05-22 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
I would like to try to clarify a question that Claude Cormier raised with regard to GoldMoney versus e-gold or any other gold currency, including E-Bullion. All of the gold currencies other than GoldMoney claim that their account system represents promises to pay a certain quantity of gold (or

[e-gold-list] Mountain of Beans

2002-05-22 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
Patrick, Two or more people can share title to an object. But neither/none have clear title to the object. The group has clear title to the object. Therefore they own it corporately. GM bases its claim on the idea that the holder owns clear title to the gold object in the vault so that

[e-gold-list] Two new articles

2002-05-22 Thread Kenneth C. Griffith
I have posted two new articles on The Gold Economy. 1. Digital or Just Gold? - by Ken Griffith Looks at the history of gold currency transactions and proposes a different terminology for e-currencies. http://www.goldeconomy.com/article.php?sid=187 2. Title, Claim Risk - by Ken Griffith