At 05:11 PM 8/4/2008, Chris Burge wrote:
> Hardly ever post here but I'm totally enjoying this message chain. EGold
> is a US based company that created a currency (e-gold) based on gold grams.
> They are, I think, the first out there to do that but their vulnerability
> appeared when they were raided in April 2007 for money laundering. They
> were innocent of that but were guilty of not having KYC, "Know Your
> Customer", established. In the USSR, errrr US, it's getting increasingly
> worse in the area of anonymity. The charge was that they were helping
> terrorists (nevermind that terrorists use credit cards in most cases...
> facts are never relevant in taking away freedom). Ack enough soap-boxing.
Thanks. I know that this is a support list, and this thread isn't support
related, except in the sense that I want to publicize the fact that XeroBank
(unlike Tor) is apparently cool with Freenet. The only issue is that there's
a 95 Gb monthly cap for its $35 per month service at 1.5 Mbps/0.5 Mbps,
and Freenet at maximum bandwidth would eat up more like 150 Gb per month.
OTOH, each machine (real and/or virtual) on one's local net runs a separate
VPN, and one can use different XeroBank access accounts for each, and switch
Freenet to a different account when the first maxes out. Also, BTW, one can
run multiple XeroBank VPNs simultaneously using the same access account,
and can split the 95 Gb monthly allotment among multiple subaccounts, each
with its own access code.
<snip>
> I'm not aware of Dalpay. What information do you have to provide to
> become a merchant of theirs? It looks like what they allow you to sell is
> fairly strict. Is XeroBank using them to process their cards?
Yes, XeroBank is using them for credit card payments. It used to accept
eGold and cash, but not now apparently. I read somewhere that the
overhead on cash was too high.
I know nada re using Dalpay as a merchant. Ask Steve ;-)
<snip>
PS - Damn, sorry about the missing subject again in my previous post.
Hierophant
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> Hardly ever post here but I'm totally enjoying this message chain. EGold
> is a US based company that created a currency (e-gold) based on gold grams.
> They are, I think, the first out there to do that but their vulnerability
> appeared when they were raided in April 2007 for money laundering. They
> were innocent of that but were guilty of not having KYC, "Know Your
> Customer", established. In the USSR, errrr US, it's getting increasingly
> worse in the area of anonymity. The charge was that they were helping
> terrorists (nevermind that terrorists use credit cards in most cases...
> facts are never relevant in taking away freedom). Ack enough soap-boxing.
Thanks. I know that this is a support list, and this thread isn't support
related, except in the sense that I want to publicize the fact that XeroBank
(unlike Tor) is apparently cool with Freenet. The only issue is that there's
a 95 Gb monthly cap for its $35 per month service at 1.5 Mbps/0.5 Mbps,
and Freenet at maximum bandwidth would eat up more like 150 Gb per month.
OTOH, each machine (real and/or virtual) on one's local net runs a separate
VPN, and one can use different XeroBank access accounts for each, and switch
Freenet to a different account when the first maxes out. Also, BTW, one can
run multiple XeroBank VPNs simultaneously using the same access account,
and can split the 95 Gb monthly allotment among multiple subaccounts, each
with its own access code.
<snip>
> I'm not aware of Dalpay. What information do you have to provide to
> become a merchant of theirs? It looks like what they allow you to sell is
> fairly strict. Is XeroBank using them to process their cards?
Yes, XeroBank is using them for credit card payments. It used to accept
eGold and cash, but not now apparently. I read somewhere that the
overhead on cash was too high.
I know nada re using Dalpay as a merchant. Ask Steve ;-)
<snip>
PS - Damn, sorry about the missing subject again in my previous post.
Hierophant
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