1. “Gold should not be viewed as the means to make you rich, but rather,
as a means to avoid the debts that can make you poor”
-BitGold Inc.
May 1, 2015
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3. A New Global Operating System for Gold
BitGold is an internet software service that makes vaulted gold accessible for
savings and mobile payments; the first full-reserve ‘online bank’ like platform
with e-payments and debit card for sending & spending gold
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• Modernizing and mobilizing a trillion dollar market
• BitGold can revolutionize access to gold for retail & commercial
accounts just as the ETF did for institutions
• Technology, UX/UI and scale can make BitGold cheaper and more
accessible than ETF or existing vault services
• Gold is a significant percentage of base money with no
“payment apps”; strong use case for EM & cross boarder
• BitGold can be relevant in every country and to every income
segment
• ideally positioned for secular growth in EM mobile payments,
cross border service invoicing, global micro-transactions,
remittance services
• A powerful financial-network growth-case to be made by
connecting the global gold markets with leadership, software
innovation, and new payment-market use cases
5. Business Highlights
• Trusted, Limited Third Party internet financial platform
• BitGold is not a bank and does not custody client money, BitGold is an internet
software service that links a user’s securely-vaulted gold to global payment networks;
ensuring minimal counterparty, FX, and banking credit risk for savings and payments
• BitGold is not a bitcoin or an IOU/ETF linked to gold
• BitGold is a transactional software service for fully-allocated, redeemable gold
• Benefits similar to bitcoin in mobile & micro transactions, but without bitcoin volatility
or anonymity (BitGold is proudly on-shore, tax compliant and KYC/AML compliant)
• Innovative technology (see slide 15)
• BitGold’s patent-pending “Aurum” technology solves the key settlement cycle
impediment that made allocated, vaulted gold difficult for high-velocity payments
• Globally relevant, internet-scalable business model (see slides 13)
• BitGold is pursuing an internet growth strategy that leverages global sales channels,
and the global nature of gold as an unmatched store of value, for a service relevant to
anyone on the planet using money and a smart phone
• Over CAD $10mm raised pre-launch (see page 17 for capital structure)
• Public funding syndicated led by Dundee, Clarus, GMP and Canaccord Genuity
• Backed by Soros Brothers, Sprott Inc., PowerOne Capital, and Sandstorm Gold
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6. Platform Features
Secure Gold Savings:
• Purchase or redeem gold at within 1% of official spot price
• Free gold storage in vaults operated by BRINKS and insured by Lloyds of London
• Five deposit/redemption Methods from any global currency:
1. Direct Bank Deposit – INTERAC, SEPA
2. Bank Transfer – SWIFT, Wire
3. Credit/Debit Cards – VISA, MasterCard, China UnionPay
4. Virtual Currencies – Bitcoin (Ripple coming soon)
5. Cash via BitGold ATM Machine
• All gold vaulted under customer’s name under allocated storage in separate
legal entity
• BitGold has zero rights to customer gold (bailment Law)
• Gold is redeemable as 10g GoldCubes or 1kg Bullion Bars
Best Practices in Compliance and KYC/AML:
• Every customer required to provide valid government-issued identification and
email + mobile phone verification
• Proprietary technology flags suspicious activity & screens AML risk
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7. Payment Features
Gold for Payments:
• Spend vaulted gold at traditional points of sale or withdraw local
currency from traditional ATM machines with BitGold MasterCard
• Send or receive gold payments to any BitGold user
• Send gold to anyone with an email address or mobile phone
• Convert to digital currency such as Bitcoin for global transfers
• Tax tool for end of year gains & loss accounting in local currency
Empowering Global Merchants with Payment Processing for Gold:
• Earn Gold by invoicing time, labor, goods or services
– Only 1% of invoice value + processing fees
• Accept VISA, MasterCard, ChinaUnionPay, Bitcoin from anyone around
the world, resulting in credit of gold grams, kilograms or tonnes in Vault
• Email an invoice or request payment
• Collect payments via tablet or mobile device
ATM Machine:
• Converts up to 100 different currencies into gold, credited instantly to
the customer’s Vault Account
• Full account features: make/receive payments
• Customer acquisition tool: encourages long-term savings in gold
• Functions as a branch for BitGold service allowing for a physical
consumer-facing relationship
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8. Mobile App in Development – Summer 2015
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• Mobile onboarding, tap and pay, social/contacts integration, push notifications and more
9. BitGold ATM Machine (launching soon): On-boards customers in
minutes, accepts deposits of local currency funding mobile Vault
Account
BitGold 24K Gold Visa Signature Card
(feature in development)
BitGold Plastic MasterCard
(feature launching in May 2015)
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11. 6 Instant Deposit Methods to Physical Gold via Patent-Pending Aurum Technology Credit Card Deposit Screenshot
Platform Features (Screenshots)
160 live reference currencies, relevant globally
Over 100 Live Reference Currencies
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Chinese deposit processing
12. Four ways to redeem gold Redeem Gold – Vault Balance View
Redeem Gold – Cubes or Bars Selection Redeem Gold – BitGold 10g Cubes
Platform Features (Screenshots)
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13. Revenue Model
• Targeted markets for early growth:
• Online and third-party gold vaulting business (and alternative to ETF for retail )
• Crypto currency market
• E-gaming community
• Cross border payments and remittances
• Invoicing and merchant business
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BitGold’s revenue model is driven by internet-scalable transaction velocity and pricing
automation. BitGold makes small gold/currency conversion fees through an embedded
markup on the “best bid or offer” quoted on the Aurum exchange every time gold is bought
and sold (account funding, withdrawals, debit card purchases, ATM deposits), and through
merchant fees.
Network Value Proposition
The BitGold Investor Proposition is to deliver strong growth in our user base, building a
global network for both savings and transactions. Maximizing shareholder value in the long
term, achieved through growth in our users and revenues to scale, requires investment in
our users, and investment in the user experience and security of the platform.
• Powerful Business Model – High ratio of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
to Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)
• Key Performance Indicators to be published in Real-Time
14. Pre-Launch Press Coverage and Media Buzz
• Early media coverage and interest for the platform (as evidenced on Twitter) have
greatly exceeded expectations prior to an official PR campaign
• BitGold funding and pre-launch articles appeared in multiple media outlets
• BitGold has built a strong social media following
– Over 15,000 Twitter followers – 14,000 Facebook – 1,700 Instagram
• Over 20,000 pre-launch sign ups recorded
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15. BitGold “Aurum” Patent-Pending Technology – Gold Trading and Settlement Reinvented
Aurum
Pricing
Engine
•Consolidated feed from
Counterparties quoting
Bid/Ask Spreads in each
Vault Location 24/7. Matches
orders from Digital Value
processors against price at
order book.
Vault
Operators
•Provide Settlement, Security,
Storage,Transportation,
Insurance, Accounting,
Redemption
Digital
Value
Processors
• ePayments - Bitcoin, Paypal,
Dwolla
•Credit/Debit Cards
•Bank API, ACH, SEPA, Interac
•Swift, Bank Wire Transfers
Customers access
one global
platform over the
internet using PC,
Mobile, ATM’s
Legal,
Compliance,
Audit •Third Party Audit
•Bank-Level AML/KYC
Onboarding
•Tax Lot Accounting
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16. Multi-Disciplinary Team
• Daniel Crandall – Chief Financial Officer – CFO to TSX Companies
• Jason Loewe – V.P. Operations & Compliance – Former Regional Compliance at Assante
• Alex Potichnyj – V.P. Marketing & Strategy – Former head of global marketing at OANDA
• Karman Lee – Operations – Former PwC, UBS, Trafigura, Vodafone
• Emily Cornelius – Marketing and Public Relations – Former AOL Canada, Huffington Post
• Benjamin Smith – V.P. Customer Success – Former customer service lead Ecobee, Agora, Swiftrade
• Stanley Chen – V.P. Customer Success APAC – Former head of Chinese Accounts at OANDA.
• Amanda Hamilton –Brand Strategy – Former Marketing and Brand Management at Unilever
• 8 Software Engineers working under CTO Alessandro Premoli in Milan, Italy
The BitGold team builds on decades of experience in financial services, investment
management, software engineering, UX/UI design, cryptography, digital security, financial
service compliance, consumer marketing, commodity market trading & macro economics
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Roy Sebag – Director Co-
Founder - CEO
Former Portfolio Manager
Long/Short Equity,
Essentia Equity
Josh Crumb – Director
Co-Founder – CSO
For purpose Businesses,
Former Sr. Metals Strategist,
Goldman Sachs
Alessandro Premoli
Chief Technology Officer
Decade+ experience in
encryption, cryptography,
digital signatures
James Eaton
Independent Director
Weatons Holdings Inc,
John David and Signy
Eaton Foundation
Denis Peterson
Director
Peterson & Company,
25+ years experience in
corporate securities law
17. Capital Structure & Recent Financings
• 35.8mm shares O/S of following completion of Subscription Receipt Amalgamation
– 4.4mm warrants & options (warrants forceable at C$1.35 strike)
• Founders own and control over 20mm shares and continue to invest in BitGold
(and continue to work without salary/compensation - both founders are independently
successful from previous ventures and are extremely passionate about BitGold potential)
• ~$3mm raised privately during 2014, December Series-A Round led by PortVesta Holdings,
Soros Brothers Investments, Sandstorm Gold, leading financial services professionals
• Go Public Transaction Announced on January 28, 2015: raised $7.5mm led by Sprott Inc.
($2mm) & Roy Sebag ($1mm), Co-Book Leads: Dundee, Clarus, GMP, CanaccordGenuity
Capital and Liquidity as of March 30, 2015 and Consolidated Amalgamation
• ~$9.2 million liquidity + inventory of ATM Machines and Gold Cubes
• ~$5.0mm additional cash from warrant exercise
• Current cash burn of $170k per month can service first 30,000 customers due to
scalable infrastructure
• No material liabilities, obligations or encumbrances
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18. Gold as a commodity, an ideal “commodity money”
Gold needs to be reinvented for its commodity value in a new technological age
• We do not support the traditional gold money narrative of the gold bugs – pulling away from
society or selling fear or greed is inconsistent with our human values and isn’t relevant for
younger generations to embrace gold
• Consider a different Narrative: Gold is the only logical offline, globally neutral form-factor for
securing digital values with non-bank like risk or regulatory requirements - $11K per Cubic Inch
stored inexpensively and maintaining purchasing power over time. Gold as a physical commodity
that holds value globally is superior to local systems of debt for cross border micro transactions
• Gold as physical element Au – cubes, not coins
– Gold’s commodity value (for jewelry and heirlooms) held over millenniums due to its low marginal
transaction cost (due to it’s density and tarnish-proof properties over many exchanges), coupled with its
opportunity cost structure (gold’s commodity cost is composed of basic labor and energy, just like food)
– Gold as money was highly politicized during the centralized gold standard and ever-changing sovereign
currency regimes
– Gold as money broke down as it became an inferior medium of exchange in an inter-connected world
needing high velocity transactions in more complex economies
– However, gold’s value as a commodity will hold and grow, making it useful as a decentralized and secure
store of value
– New and superior digital money for transactions still need links to natural systems, and natural systems of
account: fiat and crypto were superior monies as a medium of exchange, but physically unanchored as a unit
of account – which negatively leads to illogical inequality and an unanchored sense of environmental cost to
growth
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19. The internet is transforming from an internet of
communication to an internet of value, or
“internet of money”. This transformation will
have profound effects on the financial services
industry by democratizing access to the global
economy, potentially integrating up to 4 billion
un-banked and under-banked over the next 25
years. This transformation provides opportunity
for leadership in linking the growing market for
digital-transactions to gold, a globally neutral
asset uniquely positioned to secure digital
values and empower individuals.
- Roy and Josh
“Bitcoinhasburst,butcouldstill
revolutionizebanking”
-FinancialTimes,Oct2014
“Bitcoinisexcitingbecauseitshowshow
cheapitcanbetotransfermoney.”
-BillGates,Oct2014
“Wefindthatwhilebitcoinisunlikelyto
displacegoldasacommoditystoreof
value,focusingonthevalueofbitcoinas
acommodity,whichbitcoinwitha
lowercase“b”clearlyis,misseswhat
Bitcoinwithacapital“B”is–a
technology”
-JeffCurrie,GoldmanSachs,2014
“Callitbitgold…”
-Bloomberg,July 2014
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20. A New Global Operating System for Gold
BitGold Inc.
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