e-gold primarily failed in the marketplace, like all the other gold currencies. This was really of a piece with PGP and the other cypherpunk notions: they didn

e-gold primarily failed in the marketplace, like all the other gold currencies. This was really of a piece with PGP and the other cypherpunk notions: they didn't take off because people were not yet invested enough in their digital lives to care. It was largely experience with this that brought me to the conclusion that the end of privacy is inevitable. I wrote the software behind two of e-gold's "major" competitors, and contracted for e-gold as well very briefly, so I'm not exactly unbiased, by the way. I don't know much about BitCoin, though.