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re: the hows and whats of e-gold backups
it sounds like there may be enough interest in
the user community to have us pop out some kind of
briefing or summary on e-gold system architecture.
stay tuned for that.
for now - e-gold does indeed maintain offsite
Thanks for everybody's clueful answers to my possibly clueless question.
They'd all be interesting to grapple with, but since Luc Van den Borre and
Jim Ray both challenge me to justify an assumption others seem to take for
granted, let me see if I'm up to that.
Specifically, Luc asks: Why would
Let's say I want to know whether e-gold and gold itself are effectively
the same commodity.
Julian, they self-evidently are NOT the same commodity, they are
not the same thing.
(commodity is a technical term, let's just say thing.)
Also Julian, when you say gold itself in this sentence
Since SnowDog asked:
I still have not finished my article on e-gold (yes, I am basically the
slowest-working man in journalism). Should be done soon, though, and I
expect the piece will run in the December or January issue of Wired == i.e.,
it'll be out in November or December.
Meanwhile, I
What does it mean that e-gold's circulation has dropped 5 bars since 9/11,
while the price of gold has mostly gone up?
I presume it means at minimum that e-gold is not in fact gold itself. So
what exactly is the difference?
I've noticed this too, so I'll take a stab at it:
The reason that
At 04:41 PM -0500 10/01/2001, Julian Dibbell wrote:
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Meanwhile, I have another question for you all:
What does it mean that e-gold's circulation has dropped 5 bars since 9/11,
while the price of gold has mostly gone up?
I presume it means at minimum that e-gold is not in fact gold itself. So
On 1 Oct 2001, at 21:47, SnowDog wrote:
if someone smashes an airplane into E-Gold's
Servers, you don't get to keep your gold.
Craig,
Of course that is not true as the gold is in vaults around the world
and e-gold has back-ups!
It seams to me that e-gold was never sold as a gold
Meanwhile, I have another question for you all:
What does it mean that e-gold's circulation has dropped 5 bars since 9/11,
That means that e-gold has become less popular since 9/11.
Any guess as to why is purely a guess. (It is an imponderable,
like why is Pepsi less pipular than Coke!)
if someone smashes an airplane into E-Gold's
Servers, you don't get to keep your gold.
Craig,
Of course that is not true as the gold is in vaults around the world
and e-gold has back-ups!
But do people KNOW that E-Gold has backups??
Note, also, that E-Gold does not keep a 'LIVE'
... Take the, (not
defunct), CompuBank. ...
Read that 'now defunct' Compubank.
Craig
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On 1 Oct 2001, at 20:50, SnowDog wrote:
But do people KNOW that E-Gold has backups??
Well it is a standard procedures nowadays.
The Live backup you are mentioning is known as transaction
logging or mirroring. This is not exactly expensive. I am sure that
they certainly do some logging and
Hello Julian!
When is your article coming to light?
SnowDog
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At 12:55 PM -0700 09/29/2001, Goldlist Cynic wrote:
Looks like the new moderation rules have finally done their dirty
work...
Even the valiant efforts of JPMay have been to no avail...
Its very sad.
Or ironic. And since when have you ever said anything positive
about e-gold?? I'd think you'd
Goldlist Cynic wrote:
Looks like the new moderation rules have finally done their dirty
work...
Even the valiant efforts of JPMay have been to no avail...
Its very sad.
Hmm
Roughly remembered/paraphrased from a Terry Pratchett book:
`Dwarves sing about gold all the time'
`But what is
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