1mdc

<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<p>As with any digital gold currency, one used 1mdc to keep assets away from <a href="/facts/Fiat_money/Hdm03QIj">fiat currencies</a> and avoid inflationary risks associated with them. To open an account, 1mdc required the user to have a functioning <a href="/facts/E-mail_address/srdpG6am">e-mail address</a>, an e-gold account, a password, initials and a <a href="/facts/Personal_identification_number/DGMvGdJf">PIN</a>.
</p><p>1mdc charged 0.05 <a href="/facts/Gold_gram/UX74Qchl">gold grams</a> per spend for accounts that receive 100 or more spends (total over 500 grams) to their account in any given calendar month. There were no spend fees for accounts that receive 99 or less spends in a calendar month, and no storage fees on all accounts. This was in sharp contrast to e-gold, which charges a storage fee of 1% per annum. Coupled with the quick and easy transfer of funds between e-gold and 1mdc accounts, 1mdc was attractive to persons with large amounts of e-gold, whose balances gradually shrink due to e-gold's storage fees. 1mdc also offered virtually fee free exchange from Pecunix gold to 1mdc, and a 5% fee to exchange from 1mdc to Pecunix gold. It was often said that most or all heavy users of e-gold are 1mdc users, although of course there was no way of confirming this.
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<h2 id="criticisms">Criticisms</h2>
<p>1mdc's e-gold was held in unallocated (pooled) storage (in several e-gold user accounts) which allowed for extra privacy from e-gold's administrators.  However, this increased storage risk, as the client had no precedence on the e-gold they entrusted 1mdc to hold, and there was virtually no way for a user to ensure that 1mdc is maintaining full reserves of their e-gold. The amount of e-gold held in the 1mdc system was undisclosed.
</p><p>Also, since 1mdc was backed by <a href="/facts/E-gold/6vEl0HaG">e-gold</a>, events that affect e-gold also affected 1mdc. Once e-gold Ltd. was instructed by the US government to freeze and liquidate all 1mdc accounts, 1mdc became insolvent by default along with all other e-gold accounts seized in the April 27 action.
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.1mdc.com/">1mdc Homepage</a> (defunct)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.1mdc.com">Web archive for 1mdc</a> (2001–2007)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110101121037/http://indomitus.net/2004status.html#1mdc">The Indomitus Report covering 1mdc</a> (Jan 2005)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Mullan PC (2016). A History of Digital Currency in The United States. ISBN 978-1-137-56870-0. <a href="978-1-137-56870-0" target="_blank">978-1-137-56870-0</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Mullan PC (2016). A History of Digital Currency in The United States. ISBN 978-1-137-56870-0. <a href="978-1-137-56870-0" target="_blank">978-1-137-56870-0</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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