progress

[Steve Schear]

At 01:33 PM 1/5/2004, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>This is a welcome step, assuming the pharms are legit. We still need
>some form of reputation service.
>
>But I'm not overly optimistic (I tend not to be, in the short run). I
>do not know how resistant the e-gold corporate and technical
>infrastructure is to U.S. federal government targeting. If the Feds
>decided e-gold needed to be shut down and took very aggressive steps,
>what would happen?

Initially there would likely be a surge in use by their competitors, like 
Pecunix, that operate entirely outside the US.  Later new entrants would 
probably spring up.

steve