From "TJ" Chief Editor

The shortest month of the year is over and this means that it’s high time to delete from your winter Winamp playlist the tracks with murmur of the forest and sounds of birds, and to listen to the sounds of thawing snow drips and roundelay of the first birds outside. It makes no nevermind if they are echoed by importunate sounds of working ICQ, as the life actively continues and e-finances are more and more integrating into our life. Some new participants appear, old ones leave, someone leaves voluntarily, someone is made to hounded out from the market but we still observe an active growth of our industry.

However, the yang and the yin philosophy exist not only in a real world. Virtual economy also functions under the influence of black and white cardinals. In this issue we decided to touch upon such important topic as cyber-fraud that undermines all foundations of virtual economy. The matter will concern DDoS-attacks. In particularly, the editors of Trainex Journal have managed to interview the specialist in DDoS-attacks. It is the first official interview of ddoser for mass media where the DDoS-attack Guru tells about his profession, its specificity and the industry on the whole. You will learn what is hidden under a mask of ddoser, the cost of DDoS-ttacks and protection from them, whether ddosers have a code of honour and what the owner of online business should do if he was blackmailed by DDoS structures. In short, the best way to learn about DDoS is to talk to the representative of this profession.

But electronic currency market is affected not only by criminal. Very often government acts here as a haughty superintendent that sometimes slows down the evolution when it cannot keep pace with the developing world. About one of such cases will tell this issue of Trainex Journal. We will tell about the giant of electronic payments – NETeller company that at behest of the USA government was entered into the list of organizations that conduct illegal business on the territory of the United States. Crash of NETeller has recently created a deep resonance worldwide and today the issue of this electronic payment system is of high importance. As the story of NETeller is quite clear, we tried to investigate what waits for this sector of virtual economy and what partner NETeller will be in future for the users of Internet.

Also in this issue one should note the first month of operation of TrainexStock, electronic currency stock exchange. Service appeared to be unbelievably demanded and statistical services of Trainex mark increase in site traffic. The fact that users not only exchange their e-currency on stock exchange but also go into trading makes us very happy. One of such pioneers - e-currency trader will tell on the pages of March issue of TJ about his occupation which except passion and pleasure brings him large electronic banknotes.

But electronic currencies circulate in Internet since long time and their functions except payment for goods and services include payment for labor. There is an opinion that labor market in Internet is one of the main engines in development of virtual economy. In view of this we decided to pay attention to Freelance industry in Internet. Importance of this topic does not need confirmation that is why we thought that introductory materials on this issue are very necessary. The more people come to work online the more actively electronic finances will develop and hence the whole industry about which we are writing.

As it was proved our team of analysts writes for you, our dear readers, not for nothing. According to the latest statistical data the audience of Trainex Journal is more than 8000 people from more than 90 countries аt the world. We see how the interest to virtual economy grows and try to cover only the most important topics. We want to shed light on electronic finances and we hope that a light of Trainex Journal will shine overhead of each Internet user.

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