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From: Ian Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: e-gold Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 4:18 AM
Subject: [e-gold-list] RE: URGENT WARKING, READ AT ONCE!
Ian,
Perhaps, you missed the posts to this list by offshoresurfer that say if
you call Paritate's
Apparently Bruce Springsteen also has performed this song. The lyrics are at
http://www.thuismarkt.nl/users/springsteen/Lyrics/War-7585.html
-Original Message-
From: Ian Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 11:04 PM
To: e-gold Discussion
Subject: Fractional
This is no rumor. The National Bank of Latvia closed the bank by
withdrawing its license. This took place yesterday morning. I would like
to know what happened, but don't go blaming the messenger. The information
is important. I wish it had been delivered earlier.
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/update/story.jsp?story=79745
If you don't have any facts, why waste valuable time asking for them?
Just skim a few articles and then dream up whatever sounds right!
JMR
Incredible! Did they get anything right?
* Gold Currencies are only 6 months
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/update/story.jsp?story=79745
If you don't have any facts, why waste valuable time asking for them?
Just skim a few articles and then dream up whatever sounds right!
JMR
This is a PR job. Facts are irrelevant. Positioning and perception are
not.
I dunno if e-gold has considered it but they might want to consider sending
an electronic
newsletter to all its account holders periodically, new businesses could
advertise in the
newletter. It could be as simple as sending the most recent news from the
e-gold News
page. If the newsletter had
Someone (Viking?) was implying that the ADS in magazines SUPPLEMENT
magazines incomes -- ie, mazgines/newspapers get income from the
cover price.
That is not correct (the cover price is all-but irrelevant),
magazines, like all media, are simply things that exist because of
advertising.
Anybody who opened that attachment from David now has a trojan virus on
their system.
I have a Mac, so I for one am unharmed, but david best not ever
meet me or my mates in person.
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Dagny Taggart wrote:
e-gold does not have a patent in anything. So what do
they have to offer?
Defensive patents are there to protect against patent lawsuits, not to
start them. If that's what he's doing, he's only sitting on the patent
as a means to wrangle a ceasefire if some other company
Frankly, the demand for a list of all 280,000 e-gold customers would be a
low quality list even if e-gold did rent it out. Only about 40% of those
accounts actually have money in them, and even fewer have more than $10
worth.
Fascinating, I now know of 3-4 clients that will pay anything (say,
At 7:52 AM -0700 6/26/01, Charles Evans wrote:
Please pardon the impersonality of this message. It is going to
several recipients.
While attending a conference in Scotland, I was served a
15-page civil complaint, initiated by Gold Silver Reserve, this
morning.
They accuse me,
Goldfingercoin.com is launching its new gold currency very soon.
http://www.e-bullion.com/
Gee, it will be funny to see the philosophical debate there about
them not letting trusted, large merchants who want to advertise on
their site to e-bullion users, do so.
(Previous sentence:
I am quite possibly going to brand myself a pariah on this list by standing
up in favor of fractional reserve banking, though certainly not its current
incarnation.
There is nothing wrong with fractional reserves per se. The problem is the
incestuous relationship between the checking and the
At 08:53 AM -0500 06/26/2001, SnowDog wrote:
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/update/story.jsp?story=79745
If you don't have any facts, why waste valuable time asking for them?
Just skim a few articles and then dream up whatever sounds right!
JMR
Incredible! Did they get anything
Well, Gold Money IS incorporated in the Bahamas.
Their corporate headquarters are in the Bahamas, but they are incorporated
out of, and have their administrative headquarters in, the British Isles
(Isle of Man).
This reporter did even less research than Declan did a little while ago.
Leo has
Actually, you got that backwards:
GoldMoney is incorporated in the Bahamas
Their operational corporate HQ is in the Isle of Man.
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From: Viking Coder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: e-gold Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:02 PM
Subject: [e-gold-list]
I think, Sam, that you are on the right track there. Fractional reserve is
fine IF the institution tells the customer in the user agreement, If you
ask for your money at any time we MIGHT give it to you, or we MIGHT NOT.
Perhaps a better way of dealing with that problem is short-term rolling
Someone (Viking?) was implying that the ADS in magazines SUPPLEMENT
magazines incomes -- ie, mazgines/newspapers get income from the
cover price.
That is not correct (the cover price is all-but irrelevant),
magazines, like all media, are simply things that exist because of
A currency that is 100% backed by gold may sell itself as AUG or grams of
gold.
To which e-gold GoldMoney, and soon e-bullion, can all stand and proudly
proclaim. Standard Reserve's gold-backed side of their accounts also meet
this qualification, even if they are 1 step removed, being 100%
On 26 Jun 2001, at 12:02, Viking Coder wrote:
Well, Gold Money IS incorporated in the Bahamas.
Their corporate headquarters are in the Bahamas, but they are
incorporated out of, and have their administrative headquarters in,
the British Isles (Isle of Man).
The GoldMoney system is
Actually, you got that backwards:
GoldMoney is incorporated in the Bahamas
Their operational corporate HQ is in the Isle of Man.
Oops...
GoldMoney's corporate HQ is operated by Net Transactions Ltd. which is
incorporated in, and run out of, the Bahamas.
GoldMoney's administrative HQ is
The only one who is currently an ether gold is OSGold.
If they are not 100% backed, then I fully agree with you, but where is the
evidence. It seems to me that we just don't know what OSGold is since they
have not disclosed it. They might be 100% backed, they might be pure ether
(no backing
The only one who is currently an ether gold is OSGold.
If they are not 100% backed, then I fully agree with you, but where is the
evidence. It seems to me that we just don't know what OSGold is since they
have not disclosed it.
They have. They made a proud, high-faluting claim of being
Paritate is dead. What is the first thing every account holder is going to
do? pull out their money. Even if the situation gets resolved, no one is
going to trust Paritate any more. This is one of those things you don't let
happen. ONce it happens, the bank is dead. Even if someone bought
Hello,
Your assumptions are a bit premature and emotionally tainted.
Paritate Bank is experiencing problems right now. There is no word on
the permanency of this issue, but the bank has personally told us that
everything should be operational in two or three days.
It seems that
James M. Ray wrote:
http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/update/story.jsp?story=79745
If you don't have any facts, why waste valuable time asking for them?
Just skim a few articles and then dream up whatever sounds right!
I don't like the tone of these recent news articles.
Paritate is dead. What is the first thing every account holder is going to
do? pull out their money. Even if the situation gets resolved, no one is
going to trust Paritate any more. This is one of those things you don't let
happen. ONce it happens, the bank is dead. Even if someone
NOthing would make me happier than if that was true. However the reality is
that the second after they get back up and running, everyone is going to
pull their money out. Where are they going to get that money? They know
this. I have been trying to open up a new account there for the last two
I sincerely hope you are right, but at this point I think my vacation money
is gone!
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:06:58 +0200, offshoresurfer wrote:
Paritate is dead. What is the first thing every account holder is
going to
do? pull out their money. Even if the situation gets
Fact is it does happen OFTEN and it's going to keep happening. In many cases
the reasons why it is happening may be disturbing.
Here's a another example this week:
This is a story filed under Oddly Enough on the Iwon news service
(run by CBS I believe. Read the second to last paragraph. What
The only one who is currently an ether gold is OSGold.
If they are not 100% backed, then I fully agree with you, but where is the
evidence. It seems to me that we just don't know what OSGold is since they
have not disclosed it.
They have. They made a proud, high-faluting claim
They have. They made a proud, high-faluting claim of being 150% backed.
Then they described what they actually meant when they said 150% backed;
50% paper fiat cash, 50% paper gold certificates, 50% gold. Which means
they aren't 100% backed by hard gold.
More to the point: they have no
Can someone give me some information about the Anglo-American Bank?
http://www.angloamericanbank.com
I would appreciate getting the information from someone who has an account
in that bank already (No rumours please, just facts).
Thanks in advance for your replies.
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Viking Coder wrote:
snip
Very true. Even if they claimed to match circulation 100% by hard
un-allocated metal, without a redemption policy they are not a gold backed
currency. Until OSGold implements a redemption procedure, they will be a
EGC Ether Gold Currency.
/snip
The thing is, there are probably cheaper ways to get a physical bar of
gold
in either Dubai or London, but since it can be done IMO someone's probably
someday going to do it (but it won't be me!). IMO, speaking only for
myself,
etc...
JMR
Well, the important thing is, is that if there is a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 7:52 AM -0700 6/26/01, Charles Evans wrote:
Please pardon the impersonality of this message. It is going to
several recipients.
While attending a conference in Scotland, I was served a
15-page civil complaint, initiated by Gold Silver Reserve, this
I notice that MetalSavings has zero in its account, so that withdrawals are
obviously impossible.
Isn't zero a rather slim reserve? I would have thought twenty to fifty
percent would be more like it.
heh -- you know, there may be a new service, along the lines of metal
savings, coming soon.
i notice Amazon (in a desperate bid to actually make money? :) ) is
offering a lot of FREE shipping lately - example, buy any COMBINATION
of books and music or dvds, and you get free shipping. Take
advantage on bananagold.com.
(All special offers, etc, are automatically passed on to
I notice that MetalSavings has zero in its account, so that withdrawals are
obviously impossible.
Isn't zero a rather slim reserve? I would have thought twenty to fifty
percent would be more like it.
I agree, it has been at zero for a while now. Would anyone more patient
than me like to
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