Just started looking into playing around with HYIPs after being away for a very long time.

Back in the day (We're talking StudioTraffic days, any other HYIP veterans from then still around?) E-Gold was the go to source to fund any HYIP and LibertyReserve had just come onto the scene.

After checking out a couple HYIPs I noticed that they didn't accept E-Gold at all. Do any HYIPs accept E-Gold anymore?

Which is the most popular nowadays, LibertyReserve?

And of course what ever happened to E-Gold that made them lose what appears to be a huge (if not entire) share of the HYIP industry?

There is a topic on Egold here http://www.moneymakergroup.com/Gold-f54.html
I think you will find all the info you are asking for there and then add some

Welcome back buddy, half a decade is a very long time, so you have to expect to find differences in the media that you'd left many years ago..

Well, I was feeling the same thing when I returned back to this arena after a kinda long absence, but no as long as yours, I got away for a couple of years and found that E-GOLD is still online though no body uses it any more , I used to use it in the past days with ST, 4daiy, 12dp...etc and used Storm Pay and moneybookers for a few times..I got away from the online investment world when Alert Pay was just launching and no body was trusting it like nowadays yet and I got back to find it with LR are the most used PPs and e-gold has been just transformed into a history, I even tried to sign up there and it didn't permit me. Searched a little about wat brought e-gold to that position in MMG and googled it and it was all about a legal investigations by the CIA or watever authority that suspended it and frozen its actions to a non defined date!!

Again welcome back and I hope you will enjoy your time here.

Agree with the previous message! Liberty Reserve isn't very popular as a theme of resume writing also!

Yes, also AlertPay is quite popular right now.