:: Black Market Gold News ::

:: Monday, December 26, 2005 ::

Status Report on Free Market Money for the year 2004.

The 2004-report is by Jim Davidson and is located here.

Jim Davidson's 2005-report will be out in early 2006. Here is a snip of it.


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Loom.

Loom (http://loom.cc/) currently issues two e-currencies: "gold" which is redeemable for one troy ounce gold pieces and "1M" which is redeemable for 1mdc gold e-currency. There is a third e-currency which is a "play e-currency" called "spangle" (no value) which is what you use to test how the system works when you make a payment or receive a payment.

To learn now the system works, you have to click on one of the 3 e-currency names (gold, 1M, or spangle) and then move through the system by clicking on...

- Move
- Tally
- Help (this is where you find the FAQ)
- Contact
- Merchants

Another tutorial on how to use Loom is located here.

Loom is Elegant. Go here and then scroll down a bit for "What is Loom?" to feel the elegance.


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The 1st Golden Sunshine Award.

Black Market Gold News' Golden Sunshine Award is a spotlight on free spirits who use free market money within the context of bringing value to the marketplace.

The 1st Golden Sunshine Award goes to Rayservers.com.

Rayservers.com provides privacy solutions for computers and networks and provides computer hardware (servers and laptops).

Rayservers.com accepts Digital Gold Currencies (DGC) in exchange for products and services rendered.

Rayservers.com has a blog on which is discussed privacy news and DGC news.

Rayservers.com also operates as a Digital Currency Exchange Provider.

Congratulations to Rayservers.com!

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To nominate yourself or someone else for a Black Market Gold News Golden Sunshine Award send an email to Black Market Gold News providing the link of the website you wish to nominate (be sure to put "GSA Nominee" in the subject of your message).

The 2nd Golden Sunshine Award will be posted on 1-Feb-2006.


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Solidus Ramblings.

"As though as a warning from heaven, all the great empires of the past - with no exception (ed. note - except for the Roman Catholic Church) - have disappeared. The French sou, a negligible coin if it still existed when the euro came in, derived its name from the Latin solidus. That was a gold coin used only by the upper class during the Roman Empire and in the Middle ages largely in transactions between states. Much of the less exalted transactions during the dark ages were transacted in kind, even taxes. Gold came largely from central Africa and ended up disproportionately in religious vessels and ornaments of the Church, i.e., the transactions between man and his Creator. Undoubtedly you know about Henry the Eighth and his wives. The reformation was supposed to have been a by-product of his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, so that he might marry Anne Boleyn, one of the wives he later beheaded. A more powerful motive, however, seems to have been to shake loose the gold hoards of the [Roman Catholic] Church, so urgently needed by England, whose trading economy had come to depend upon an adequate supply of precious metals. The multiplier of banking that later made much money out of a little money base had not yet evolved. So the British monarch achieved that goal by hanging the odd abbot for hiding gold vessels - as in Glastonbury - and of course later by piracy on the seas."


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