BitGold Inc. Reports May 2015 Key Performance Indicators

BitGold Inc. (TSX-V:XAU), a platform for savings and payments in gold, is pleased to announce its Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for the period ending June 4, 2015. These results will be published on a monthly basis to advise customers, the investment community and other stakeholders of the growth and development of the business of BitGold.



User Sign Ups

Period Total User Signups Net Increase/Decrease

Cumulative Net
Increase/Decrease
for the year

Launch to June 4th 33,014 +33,014 +33,014



Transaction Volume (Gold Grams) 1

Period

Transaction
Volume

Net
Increase/Decrease

Cumulative Net
Increase/Decrease
for the year

Value in CAD
for Reference

Launch to June 4th 28,881 Grams +28,881 +28,881 C$ 1,359,428



Customer Gold in Vaults (Gold Grams) 2

Period Gold in Vaults

Net
Increase/Decrease

Cumulative Net
Increase/Decrease
for the year

Value in CAD
for Reference

As of June 4th 24,377 Grams +24,377 +24,377 C$ 1,147,681

1. Defined as deposits, redemptions and payments on the network.
2. Defined as total segregated and allocated customer gold under safekeeping.

Features Launching in June:

The following enhancements to the BitGold platform are expected to launch in June 2015:

  • Mobile Application for Android and iOS devices.
  • Debit Card in Private Beta
  • Live Price Alerts in 106 Currencies
  • Seller Tools in Beta (BitGold Checkout Button, Seller Invoicing)

These features will enhance the customer experience and advance the development of the BitGold platform.

About BitGold
BitGold’s mission is to make gold accessible and useful in digital payments and secure savings. The BitGold platform provides innovative solutions to the challenge of transacting with fully allocated and securely vaulted gold. BitGold accounts are free and convenient to open by anyone, anywhere* in just minutes. BitGold provides users with a secure vault account to purchase gold using a variety of electronic payment methods. The platform will also provide transaction capability including: instant cross-border gold payments, merchant invoicing and processing for gold, debit card spending of gold at traditional points of sale, conversions to a customer's external digital-wallet or bank, and physical gold redemptions. All physical gold acquired through the platform is owned by the customer, stored in vaults administered by The Brink’s Company, acting through Brink’s Global Vault Services International, Inc. (“Brink’s”), which insures gold through third party insurance providers.

BitGold is a Canadian corporation with offices in Toronto, Canada, and Milan, Italy. BitGold has partnered with established professionals in bullion dealing, vault security and web security, payment processing, and is committed to best-practice systems for compliance with all applicable laws and regulations regarding anti-money Laundering (“AML”) and Know Your Customer (“KYC”).

*The BitGold Platform will not initially be available to U.S. Residents and will be unavailable to residents of sanctioned countries

No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein. Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy of this release.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains certain “forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws that are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statements that involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as “expects”, or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, “plans”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “forecasts”, “estimates”, “believes” or “intends” or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results “may” or “could”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking information and are intended to identify forward-looking information. Forward-looking information in this release includes but is not limited to statements regarding the development and implementation of BitGold platform features. This forward-looking information is based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time it was made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, among others: the Company’s ability to implement its business plans, meeting time and budget targets for product development; the Company’s limited operating history; future capital needs and uncertainty of additional financing; the competitive nature of the industry; unproven markets for the Company’s product offering; volatility of gold prices & public interest in gold investment; lack of regulation and customer protection; the need for the Company to manage its planned growth and expansion; the effects of product development and need for continued technology change; protection of proprietary rights; the effect of government regulation and compliance on the Company and the industry; network security risks; the ability of the Company to maintain properly working systems; foreign currency and gold trading risks; use and storage of personal information and compliance with privacy laws; use of the Company’s services for improper or illegal purposes; global economic and financial market conditions; uninsurable risks; and those risks set out in the Company’s public documents filed on www.sedar.com. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking information other than as required by law.

Contacts:

BitGold Inc.
Emily Cornelius, 647-499-6748
Manager Corporate Communications

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