Coin Perspective — Douglas Jackson

“e-gold was never about gold. It was fundamentally focused on payments and settlement.” 

 Dr. Douglas Jackson made history as one of the early pioneers in the digital currency space when he founded e-gold, a digital currency backed by gold, in 1996. The company was a leader in financial technologies before FinTech was a thing. Now, almost 25 years later he is about to return to this space. In our conversation, Dr. Douglas reminisces on the early era of digital currencies, and the challenges he and his company had to face while onboarding millions of customers and competing with companies such as Paypal or Goldmoney. He shares his somewhat critical views on the Cypherpunks movement as well as Bitcoin, and lays out his future plans. Read more here.

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