In the light of recent developments in the digital gold market, with companies like e gold being indicted and the  US government taking a hardline against some of them because of moneylaundering and unregulated illegal practices going unchecked, what do you think the future of these alternative currencies or digital currencies are ?
Can the US govt and others force them out of business as some believe?
We value your opinion here on www.digitalmoneyworld.com and both Mark and Benson have written here on digital gold extensively in the past.
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Author: Mark Herpel
Listed in: Finance Innovation
Tags: gold e-gold e-bullion pecunix e-currency …read more

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What do we do?
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This is a kind of unofficial poll to find out which online payment company is rated best.
These are the criteria:
1. ease of use, functionality and options.
2. service level, charges/cost and market share.
3. security, support and reliability.
4. ethical, regulated and financially sound company.
So which online payment company does these best for you.
Leave a comment and tell us your experience for the benefit of our readers.
Moneypenny

I remember as an investment broker not so long ago, my clients and peers talking about ethical investments. Exercising your ethical choice in investments was becoming mainstream and even clients were talking about it.
Contrast this with the Elliot Spitzer case recently. He didn’t seem to care that prostitution and the crimes always linked with it, where being funded by him. He possibly said – I’m O.k. I’m not hurting anyone.
The IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division then started a probe, initially fearing that Spitzer was the victim of either extortion or identity theft.
 

Screenshot of the website of Emperors Club VIP …read more

 Much has been written on www.digitalmoneyworld.com about e gold and the fallout of the investment. HYIPs are still big business on the net and people fall into them because they are lured by the returns. Which are astronomical! Indeed those who have invested, will tell you that they lure people in by giving them these returns in the first few weeks and  by giving them bonuses for referring others. The problem like so many of these schemes, comes when the investor wants to cash out. Although this professes to not be spam or a scam, in my book it is. Firstly someone …read more

Here’s one for  all you gold people.  Just another of the many messages to arrive in my mailbox on a daily basis,
which  make little or no sense.
So the first person who can write in and tell me what this scheme is about or not, will win an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon in 2020. The winner will also be crowned the “smart alec” of the month.
Answers on a postcard.. no rather send me a comment here, as quick as a flash.
Moneypenny

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 jessicabeloved00@yahoo.com

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A warm wish to all those on b5media, and of course our readers, remembering the fallen on this Memorial Day 2008. May all those who served and are serving, be remembered. Here’s the link to participate http://www.nationalmemorialdayparade.com   Last week I wrote on web money http://www.bizzia.com/webmoney-online-payments/  and  it seems that every month, there’s a new way to pay on-line. Are these virtual companies using our money held-on-line to trade with? Are they using customers online funds to raise capital to trade with. Ask some finance wizzes or a group of investment bankers, and they will tell you that for the small benefit of giving customers an alternative to using credit …read more

The April issue of  DGC mag featured an article on the growth of the online payment company web money, and since we have been focusing on paypal, moneybookers and others this month, I thought it would be interesting to see how moneyweb shapes up, and what features they offer compared to the others, I covered in my last post.  Do you have a money web account? Write and tell us your experience with them.
 Thankyou to Mark at DGC mag for content and graph. http://www.dgcmagazine.com
Webmoney Shows Huge Growth In 2007

This month Webmoney Transfer announced their 2007 annual numbers and included some additional company information. …read more

Paypal at present has over 120 million customers that use its services. Customers ranging from large companies who do thousands of transactions to individuals who just want to occasionally send and receive money on line. So how does paypal measure up to the banks we have been using for 100’s of years?
Well, at first glance, Paypal may seem to be the cheaper option. Yet payments are levied by paypal to receive or (bank) money. Converting from one currency to another will also cost you money, so what are the advantages over a traditional bank? Good question!
Accessibility may be one, although most major banks have been offering …read more

This link on Paypal customers and their payment preferences, ties in rather nicely with a theme we’ve had here on digitalmoneyworld in the last week. That of security, and in particular, data security with any online payment system.
Weve spoken about scams, both with traditional banks in my last post, and also companies like moneybookers and the spammers and scammers that try to steal  your information.
The golden rule in protecting yourself here seems to be “think twice before you give out your personal information“.  How safe is it?  Where will it be used and stored, and most important, is the company/person  asking for it actually who they say they …read more