e-gold® Blog

e-gold scheduled downtime for 1 hour on 2 September 2007

Please note that the e-gold website will be offline as described below. Times provided are estimates only - actual downtime duration may be slightly shorter or longer. Scheduled Maintenance Begins: Sunday, September 2 2007 9:00 EDT (view in other timezones)... Read more →

deconstructing money, part 2

In Part 1 of this post I suggested that there is not an obligatory connection between strategies for maintaining price stability and the exchange value of the money used as a settlement medium. I insisted on using the term settlement... Read more →

deconstructing money, part 1

In my recent Better Money post I proposed that money that did not lose its exchange value over time... would generally be better than money that did. In response, Sameer Parekh asserted the benefit of stable value and pointed out... Read more →

The buck starts here. (So does e-gold.)

In an earlier post I made reference to the role of liability as it relates to monetary issuance. In this post I want to explain all that. To preview: money that is someone's liability - (potentially) good. Money that is... Read more →

Better Money

The trademarked slogan "Better Money" is displayed on the homepage of the e-gold site. As best I recall, I came up with that one myself. In making this claim my intent was (and is) to stimulate thinking and discourse along... Read more →

e-gold is...

Since this blog is going to be all about e-gold, a natural place to start is with a succinct definition of e-gold. I promise to offer a succinct definition... but I am not going to stop with the succinct version.... Read more →

Q&A with e-gold Founder

One of these days, hopefully soon, I'm planning to do a talk radio interview. In preparation I recently met with a radio journalist to familiarize her with e-gold. We decided to record our discussion... Read more →

Welcome to the e-gold blog

Hi, I'm Douglas Jackson and this is the first entry of the e-gold blog. Welcome! My goal in this first note is not to introduce myself - I'll surely get to that by and by - but rather to scope... Read more →