The once popular electronic payment system, which differs from its virtual cash account collateral in real reserves of precious metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium).

Actively used in e-commerce to make payments on transactions, pay for IT-shniki and copywriters, shopping in online stores, various online services (hosting, domain name), games on exchanges on the difference in dragmetal quotes.

Since the creation of the system in 1996, e-gold users could be citizens of any country in the world. But in 2008, restrictions were introduced on this score, as a result of which complete freedom of action (receipt, transfers, withdrawal of funds) remained only among representatives of 30 countries (USA, Canada, a number of European). In this regard, in most countries of the post-Soviet space, e-gold could be known, but it was not possible to fully use it (the account for the start and storage of funds could be, but it cannot be translated and withdrawn).

January 20, 2015 website e-gold was closed, and system account holders were asked to submit applications for possible reimbursement of their savings from accounts that ceased to exist.