At 06:56 PM 12/06/2002 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: >I absolutely agree with you that e-gold is better money, Ragnar, but it's a >little more subtle than that. I was looking for the reason why more >shenanigans are committed with e-gold than with GoldMoney, and I do not >believe it's because e-gold is "better money" than GoldMoney. > >Personally, I think it's because e-gold is more widely used than GoldMoney, >pure and simple. However, I did challenge the listening audience, and in >particular the people originally leveling the charge at e-gold, to come up >with other reasons if they could.
One important distinction between e-gold and GoldMoney is that GoldMoney seems to present a prohibitive or at least daunting level of conceptual and interface complexity that one does not encounter with e-gold! I wish GoldMoney great success, but I indeed see this as a significant obstacle to mass acceptance, equal to the fact that e-gold's achieved market acceptance reduces the incentive for novices to try GoldMoney. ** Surely the great majority of GoldMoney account holders either have or first had an e-gold account, and that GoldMoney is therefore a system for experienced and highly computer literate eCurrency users. Ian Green http://two-cents-worth.com/?107242&EG www.107242.clicktwocents.com http://two-cents-worth.com/?501925c&GM ** At the same time I do not see e-gold itself as an obstacle to GoldMoney's success. Far from it! E-gold's growth makes a bigger cake for both e-Gold and GoldMoney, in addition to other eCurrencies. They blaze the trail so that those who follow enter a market where consumers have already accepted (and hopefully embraced) the concept of privately issued 100 percent precious metal backed electronic money / currency! Without e-gold, how many would even be entertaining the idea of using GoldMoney? The response would more often be "Too difficult, too complex, no one else is doing it". --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
