Our publication
Gold Certificate is an independent market-information publication covering gold, silver, platinum and Bitcoin. Our official website is goldcertificate.gold, and our official X account is @GoldCertGroup. For business and editorial inquiries, contact sales@goldcertificate.gold.
What we publish
Gold Certificate publishes sourced market references, weight-and-purity calculators and educational explanations. Our current focus is gold, silver, platinum and Bitcoin. The website is an information service: it does not accept customer assets, execute trades, take deposits or sell a government-backed gold certificate.
The brand is independent of the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, U.S. Mint and the organizations linked as reference sources. Our name and banknote-inspired artwork are brand elements, not evidence of government affiliation, certification or gold reserves.
Price source and update method
Displayed market references are requested from Gold API in USD. Metal quotes are per troy ounce; Bitcoin is per BTC. The page displays the timestamp received from the provider. While a page is visible, its tools attempt a refresh about once a minute, with manual refreshes limited to once per 30 seconds. A request may fail or the provider may return the same timestamp.
A reference more than 15 minutes old is labeled delayed. If a refresh fails, any last-received reference keeps that status visible. A page with no available quote does not invent one; the calculator still accepts a user-entered reference. These values are indicative, not official LBMA auction prices or executable dealer offers.
Calculation method
We use 31.1034768 grams per troy ounce. For metals, the calculation is reference USD per troy ounce divided by 31.1034768, multiplied by gross grams and the selected purity fraction. Gold uses nominal karat divided by 24; silver and platinum use fineness divided by 1,000. Dollar results are rounded at the end. Bitcoin uses price per BTC multiplied by the BTC amount.
Editorial responsibility and corrections
Content is published under the Gold Certificate brand. Source links are provided so readers can check the underlying product or market explanation. Educational examples are labeled hypothetical and are separate from current quotes. We update a page when its substantive information changes rather than changing dates to suggest unsupported freshness.
For a correction, send the page URL, the statement or calculation in question, and the source or inputs needed to reproduce it to sales@goldcertificate.gold. A displayed publication date is an editorial review date, not a market-price timestamp.
Dealer discovery and commercial relationships
The dealer discovery section on the homepage is an illustrative preview. It does not identify vetted dealers, establish inventory or provide a paid unlock. No dealer endorsement or affiliation is implied by those examples. Any future paid placement or compensated referral should be identified where it appears.
Privacy and contact
Calculator values are processed in the browser tab. They are not submitted to Gold Certificate or stored by these tools. Price requests send the network information normally associated with a web request to the data provider. Following an outside link or sending an email is subject to that service's policies. These pages use anonymous analytics to count page paths, broad traffic-source categories and browser visits. A random tab ID is kept in session storage. Calculator inputs, names, email addresses, full referral URLs and IP addresses are not stored in the analytics database. Temporary session and event IDs are pruned as new traffic arrives after two UTC calendar days; aggregate counts are retained. Browser visits are estimates, not unique people. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are respected. Counts are not published on the website.
Business, dealer and research inquiries: sales@goldcertificate.gold. Follow the brand at @GoldCertGroup on X.