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hey guys,
Today we are releasing a revamped version of our commodities exchange which has been running since 2015.
With Vaultoro we help crypto investors to protect their wealth with allocated physical bullion.
Using your Vaultoro wallet you can buy and sell cryptos such as BTC and DASH for gold and protect yourself from market swings.
We'd love to hear your feedback. Check out vaultoro.com (http://vaultoro.com) and reply to this topic with your feedback.

Hi everyone, Joshua Scigala here, I'm the CEO and co-founder of Vaultoro.

I'm so proud of the entire team here at Vaultoro.

Since launching Vaultoro.com back in Feb 2015 we have had the mission to make crypto trading transparent. It all began after I lost a heap of bitcoin in the MtGox collapse. My brother and I were determined to build a transparency protocol for exchanges so that creditors could always see if the exchange was above reserve or not and by how much. It is a real-time audit that the exchange could not mess with without being busted. No need for Roger Ver reading from a tele-prompter saying "trust me the exchange is liquid" like he did with MtGox.

And so the glass books protocol was born. This protocol enables anyone, including a crack-smoking Grandma to see that the exchange is above full reserve. 

We then didn't like the fact that everyone was trading bitcoin against fiat. When MtGox collapsed, their fiat holdings started getting chewed up by liquidators and administrators (still happening!). That's why we decided to use Gold instead of fiat as a counter asset. Gold can be allocated in a users name as their legal property, off the exchange's books and can be fully insured and physically audited. That way if anything happened to Vaultoro as exchange, liquidators could not touch our client's assets.

Since launching we have seen stable coins arrive on the scene who rely on un-audited bank accounts that supposedly have the backing fiat. The banks could easily freeze, get shut down by governments or go bankrupt then bail-in with creditors funds as we saw in Cyprus.

Gold on the other hand, is secured in top tier vaulting facilities in Switzerland, fully bank independent. The only thing a government could legally do is confiscate a single bad actors holdings but they could not take down the whole lot. This protects users as private property law in Switzerland are some of the strongest in the world. To even confiscate a single person's gold is a very lengthy process not like in other countries.

Almost 2 years ago we became the first exchange in the world to offer lighting network deposits. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/vaultoros-bitcoin-gold-exchange-implements-lightning-network-payments . Vaultoro has been a proud supporter of the lighting network and continues to be, and we also see great potential in other scaling solutions.

My personal goal is to see crypto scale so that we can truly compete against the global debt-based fiat monetary system. I don't care which one does it as long as someone does. This is the magic of competition. I'm interested in how bigger blocks go, but don't believe it will work long term and stay decentralised. I find the DASH masternode network an interesting solution to scaling and I find EOS's DPOS interesting too but I don't find voting to be an efficient governance model due to voter apathy and naivety on most subjects.

Back to Vaultoro, Since 2015 we have traded over 100 million euros worth of gold in only a single trading pair (gold/bitcoin). With the launch of vaultoro 2.0 we present a total rewrite of the exchange from the ground up, all built in house. A beautiful new interface with more advanced graphing features rolling out over the next few weeks. We will be having more crypto pairs as well as rolling out silver and more metals in the coming months.

We will also have a maker-taker fee model that will pay the market makers some of the fees that takers pay. This means if you are sick of paying trading fees you can get paid by placing an order in the order book and waiting for it to be taken.

Please feel free to ask me and the team anything.

We're proud to have had our Founder Josh Scigala featured on the DashTalk show with Amanda B Johnson.
Talking about Vaultoro and physical gold, the Dash community and Dash Investment Foundation using Vaultoro to buy gold.

Plus first announcement of our new referral program about to launch with 20% payouts and a half gram of gold for new users.

You can see Josh in action below. Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)


https://vaultoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Dashpay-Vaultoro-forum.jpg
 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZB2O52ql7A)

Nice to see that Vaultoro is evolving! Looking forward to your new API.

Thanks!
We have a lot of exciting and useful trading features coming. Stay tuned

We take BTC and Gold security very seriously. Here's how we secure gold bullion and Bitcoin.

For more info visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)


https://vaultoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/vaulting-thumbnail.jpg
 (https://youtu.be/cVU3NsMaePQ)

What do you guys think of this story that CSW was behind the MtGox hack?
We covered some of the allegations against Craig Wright about MtGox (https://vaultoro.com/law-firm-links-craig-wright-to-stolen-mt-gox-funds/) but we'd love to hear your thoughts.

Listen to our Founder Josh Sciigala talk about why he started Vaultoro and the need to get away from banks.
 -It's less than 60 seconds.

We are proud today to be the leading gold backed crypto exchange in the world

Watch the soundbite here on youtube (https://youtu.be/ihIIgAicI2U)

We're going to be performing scheduled maintenance today. Starting at 16:00 CEST for 1-3 hours. Enjoy a drink because we'll be back to trading gold before you know it. Thank you for your understanding as we work to make the world's leading Gold to crypto trading platform even better

What are you guys more bullish on right now? Gold or BTC?
Tell us what you think and why

4 events happening that could see a rise in the price of gold.
Are you in a position to take advantage between gold and BTC?

Read more at the Vaultoro.com Blog (https://vaultoro.com/4-events-that-may-push-gold-beyond-1800-an-ounce-next-week/)


https://i2.wp.com/vaultoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/financial-2860753_1280.jpg
 (https://vaultoro.com/4-events-that-may-push-gold-beyond-1800-an-ounce-next-week/)

Josh Scigala talking to Blockstream CEO Adam Back about how Liquid Network could be used on exchanges to avoid custodial risk while performing the equivalent of atomic swaps at the same time.

Watch the video below. Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)


https://vaultoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Adam-Back-blockstream-dex-interview_Moment.jpg
 (https://youtu.be/dQq828RVkLM)

Check out Josh Scigala talking on livestream with Aleks Svetski and Bitcoin Club Malta about Bitcoin, covid, Orwell and more Check the livestream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thg-d06sAe4&feature=youtu.be)

Every milestone matters and we're proud to have reached 1000 followers on Twitter.
If you aren't following us then please do and a BIG thanks to all of YOU that are!

Check out the Vaultoro twitter feed (https://twitter.com/Vaultoro). Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)


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A new report by Global Witness implicates Valcambi and Kaloti Minerals in conflict gold buys.

Read the article below. Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)



Conflict gold may be more of a problem than you think

https://vaultoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/conflict-gold-valcambi-kaloti.jpg
 (https://vaultoro.com/new-report-confirms-conflict-gold-may-still-be-an-issue-in-2020/)

We're proud to announce we'll be offering negative trading fees on crypto trading!
That means you get paid when you trade on Vaultoro.

Read the article below. Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)



Negative trading fees announced on Vaultoro

https://vaultoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/bitcoin-crypto-exchange-lowest-fees.jpg
 (https://vaultoro.com/negative-trading-fees/)

Sounds great! I am interested in buying some gold because I believe that the price of gold will rise much further.

How much will I get paid out in the end?

Thanks. Time will tell how high the price can go.
But owning gold is a great step for wealth protection and insured and audited gold is our game!

Why all the arguing between gold and bitcoin. Both have a place and are useful. Especially as a hedge against the failing Fiat system. Can't we just be friends? 🤣

Read the article below. Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)



Rainbow-esque depiction of BTC and Gold being friends. WTF

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 (https://medium.com/@Vaultoro/gold-and-bitcoin-are-not-enemies-a02924ca5aeb)

We are one of the first exchanges to offer Negative Trading Fees for cryptotrading. Read thoughts from Co-Founder Josh Scigala on the future of exchange fees and why you should care already today.

Read the article below. Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)



Negative trading fees announced on Vaultoro

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 (https://medium.com/@Vaultoro/the-race-to-zero-trading-fees-now-goes-to-negative-fees-67fa9ba40a93)

The world is blaming Corona for the financial crisis. Read thoughts from Co-Founder Josh Scigala on what's really behind this meltdwn.

Read the article below. Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)



Corona is a great scapegoat but...

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 (https://medium.com/@Vaultoro/corona-is-a-great-scapegoat-for-the-financial-meltdown-but-whats-the-real-reason-f2b61eefe39b)

Gold reached a new ATH of over $2,000!
Where do you think it will go from here?

We're proud to announce that Laurin Bylica from block.one has joined us as Head of Business Development!
This is great news and part of our plans to aggressively grow Vaultoro during 2020 and beyond.

We are VERY proud to announce we are relaunching our affiliate program and we're giving away physical gold to the first users and affiliatese

Read the article below. Or come visit us at Vaultoro.com (https://vaultoro.com/)



Start earning rewards now...

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 (https://vaultoro.com/were-proud-to-announce-our-referral-program-relaunch/)

Hi Guys
We've spent a lot of time doing platform updates so we can bring back some missing features and old a bunch of new ones. Here's an update post about the last couple of months. As always, thank you for your patience and support!

Platform updates at Vaultoro (https://vaultoro.com/weve-been-busy-and-the-best-is-yet-to-come/)

We're working hard on growing the Vaultoro community. Like being more active here for example. On YouTube we just passed 1,000 subscribers!

If you haven't seen our channel then come and check it out https://www.youtube.com/vaultoro (https://www.youtube.com/vaultoro)

And thanks for the support you show on all channels!

There is a fake Vaultoro facebook page offering 50 users 0.5 BTC to click on a link.

https://vaultoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/fakefbscam-small.jpg


We will never ask you to click on links that are not Vaultoro.com and never ask for your account information in a google form. Please stay safe.

Guys, we released an updated version of our API.
Full documentation here. Enjoy:
https://api-docs.vaultoro.com/ (https://api-docs.vaultoro.com/)

And thank you!

I'm receiving reports from several users (I'm not a Vaultoro user myself) about a silver airdrop that was announced last December. Here is the announcement on Vaultoro.com site:

https://vaultoro.com/we-are-airdropping-5-kg-of-silver/ (https://vaultoro.com/we-are-airdropping-5-kg-of-silver/)

First snapshot, saved on December 17th 2020:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201217171033/https://vaultoro.com/we-are-airdropping-5-kg-of-silver/ (https://web.archive.org/web/20201217171033/https://vaultoro.com/we-are-airdropping-5-kg-of-silver/)

So the deadline was originally December 25th 2020, and later extended to January 7th 2021.

It was clearly stated that the silver would be given to ALL active users of Vaultoro, they only had to login to their verified account within the deadline.
Still users are now complaining that they did not receive their silver as promised, though they did access their Vaultoro account according to the airdrop's terms.

The answer they received from support is that the "winners" of the airdrop were only the first 1000 people to activate their account, so if they didn't receive the silver that means they're not among the lucky ones... That answer is just ridiculous, since the airdrop was not described like a race of the users to activate their account before some limit is reached: there is no mention about the 1000 limit, and it's explicitly stated that all existing users with an active account would get some silver.

Furthermore, some of those users can prove they accessed their account before Dec 25th, which was the original deadline. Since Vaultoro extended the deadline to Jan 7th, that must imply that on Dec 25th the 1000 limit was not reached yet, and then that user is eligible for the airdrop even admitting there was a 1000 limit, which is still not the case.

So that looks like an awkward attempt to change the terms for the airdrop afterwards and go back on their promise, only to save a few grams of silver: that's the kind of disgraceful behavior that makes a company totally unworthy of being trusted.

Then @Vaultoro, stop with this nonsense and give the silver to ALL users who honestly earned it, by accessing their account according to the terms stated in the announcement. If you keep refusing to fulfill your promise, then there's enough evidence for a scam accusation which will be posted in the proper section.