E-Gold News

Just read this from e-gold:

e-gold Empowers Online Gambling Sites to Refuse Payments from US Persons

On October 12, 2006, the Safe Ports Act was signed into law in the United States. As a result of the Safe Ports Act and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 contained in the Safe Ports Act, the facilitation of many forms of Internet gambling by persons located in the United States has become a proscribed activity. With the objective of preventing the use of e-gold by United States persons for unlawful online gambling, e-gold has deployed a feature whereby any e-gold account holder may configure their e-gold account(s) to block incoming e-gold Spends from accounts controlled by Users residing inside the United States or who are accessing the Internet from within the United States. Online gambling businesses using e-gold are now required to enable this new account attribute.

While this doesn't really affect those of us who are not in the US, or playing with HYIPs and such, it's interesting to note that e-gold is pro-active in keeping themselves out of trouble (or in this case potential trouble). That being said, I'm sure the circus is going to come riding thru town with the latest annoucement and the rumours will start all over again......not that it ever stopped in the first place.