Transparency is extremely important and the technology introduced by the NXT community is making giant leaps in making it eventually possible to technically provide full realtime transparency of operations, not the persons behind them which should in most instances be the secondary focus. DGEX is along with other individual actors working hard to materialize that goal.
e-gold? Was a good e-currency
E-gold was indeed the leader. The government goons shut it down because people used it anonymously to conduct business and fraud, just like they do now with Bitcoin. Times have changed, e-gold was unfortunately ahead of its time (not minding it was fully centralized).
For the sake of some little substance towards transparency here are the DGEX main reserve accounts
https://blockchain.info/address/1LNKq42Hx6nsWCyBsxKCDqdF3btBbufnQThttp://87.230.14.1/nxt/nxt.cgi?action=3000&acc=16386134630970163904