-- Over the past ten years there have been many attempts to get a micropayment system working, all of which have failed dismally, leading to a widespread attitude that internet micropayments just do not work, and never will work. In the past 24 hours, e-gold has done fifty thousand micropayments, of which thirty thousand were one milligram of gold or under (about one cent or under) These are non anonymous, in that e-gold can link payer to payee, but anonymous in that it laborious to link e-gold account numbers to true names. e-gold has no knowledge what they are being used for. If they gathered that much information, it probably would not be worthwhile for their customers, but I would guess these are mostly per-click-through payments for ads. Some proportion of these payments must be e-gold's own referral scheme, but the majority have to be other people's schemes, perhaps other people's similar schemes. The fact that e-gold does not know what is going on suggests that past attempts to support micropayments failed by putting too great a burden on those seeking to participate. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG bXT+Ssbr8YwqxmGU48nKVUNmy/V5W9MrCY8AJ1iu 4JjvpESYIz/nh/OrZvLSSq8INjokq5UGC2eACxupI --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com