U.S. Government Forces E-gold Redemptions — Seizes Gold
May 15th, 2007I don’t have any reason to believe that this isn’t the case, I just can’t confirm it. If you have additional information, please share it with all of us here.
Via: Moneynetnews:
In an unprecedented move on or just before Wednesday May 9th, 2007, the United States of America has forced Omnipay et al E-gold to redeem all the gold backing the 58 previously frozen accounts owned by e-gold, 1mdc, icegold and a handful of other exchangers and customers to be liquidated effective immediately to a us dollar account owned by the federal government.

There can’t be any “competition”. Besides, the biggest mafia on the planet isn’t about to allow anyone to move into their territory…i.e. “funny money”.