What is C-gold?
Ever since e-commerce (electronic commerce; goods and services sold and bought using electronic means, ie. The Internet) began gaining ground during the last decade, its wider acceptance has been hindered by politics and policies in many countries.
The fact that about 10% of retail trade - in fact up to 40% in specific niche markets - in the developed world is now e-commerce-based, is therefore an amazing achievement, as it developed despite those politics and policies. These include outright disinterest, even ignorance, in the government and banking sectors in some countries.
However, if there were ways and means to circumvent some of the worst of these policies, by strictly legal means, then there is a very high probability that e-commerce would not only continue to grow at increasing speeds in the developed world, but could moreover surpass these achievements in many other countries.
Commerce Gold, or c-gold.com is an attempt to make that possible; to usher in a new era of technology-based, private commerce, in which borderless trade between individuals and corporations becomes not a distinct possibility, but, in fact, the norm.
C-gold is 100% gold backed and redeemable. C-gold is fully redeemable for actual, physical gold bars, which makes the weight-based balance of a c-gold.com user account the same as buying physical gold with no taxes or surcharges.

How to open an account?
Creating an account is easy at C-gold. Simply enter your details, such as your name, account title, and address, etc., and you will have a full-functioning, free C-gold account in minutes. To create an account simply click here.

Where is C-gold registered and located?
Commerce Gold (c-gold.com) is a project of Private Gold Equities Exchange Limited, a Seychelles company (est. 2005, cert. 024795) that specializes in the development and operation of online market places and e-commerce platforms.
While Private Gold Equities Exchange Limited operates the c-gold.com business, customer support, as well as gold bailments, storage and redemption are outsourced to CyFro Associates Sdn. Bhd., of Penang, Malaysia.
CyFro Associates Sdn. Bhd. is a joint subsidary and corporate headquarters of the CyberFrontier Group of companies, which have been active in the fields of e-commerce, web application development and hosting, as well as management & consulting, since 1991.
Commerce Gold is the declared intent to bring Free Market Capitalism and thus Peace and Prosperity to the entire Planet.

How does it work?
C-gold.com is a gold-backed (and redeemable), electronic book-entry system that serves as a platform of free and voluntary commerce and exchange between users, denominated in grams of gold (G).
Initially c-gold.com is being established as an online presence, with gold being stored for the users at premises owned by the company and/or at convenient locations provided by third-party contractors.
Anyone who is of legal age in his country of residence can open a c-gold account and operate it to receive and make payments to any other user.
To obtain a balance of gold (G) into their respective c-gold accounts, users can either receive payments from other users who already have gold in their accounts, or they can deposit bullion bars with c-gold. The minimum bullion deposit will initially be set at one kilogram of 999.99 fine, hallmarked bars, but with a growing user base, smaller minimum weights and also several specific types of bullion coins will be accepted.
Another way for users to obtain c-gold is to use the services of independent, third-party exchangers, who will pay c-gold into user accounts in return for fiat currency payments.
Users can use their c-gold account balances to make payments to each other by using the web-based interface to login their account and pay c-gold (G) to another account.
To withdraw a balance of gold (G) from their respective c-gold accounts, users have the choice of obtaining gold bullion in person at participating outlets (see Expansion & Franchising), or to have bullion shipped to their individual address on record (fees and charges apply).
Third party exchangers are also offering a means for users to convert their c-gold (G) holdings into fiat currencies, independent of c-gold, by paying a balance of gold from their respective accounts into the account of an exchanger and receiving an amount of fiat currency by means of bank wire, cheque, money order, or other financial instruments, unrelated to c-gold.
c-gold.com itself, will at no time offer exchange services itself. This means it is impossible to buy gold from, or sell gold to c-gold.com, and c-gold.com will not handle cash, nor will it maintain accounts with any financial institution whatsoever.
As such, c-gold.com's main function is to own, operate and maintain the online book-entry system, as well as to accept bullion deposits added to c-gold user accounts and manage redemption orders when users are un-bailing / redeeming bars from their accounts.

Why does C-gold require my ID and utility bill scans?
For one, knowing who our customers are will help us to eliminate attempts to abuse the c-gold.com system. But various countries also make it mandatory for us to Know Our Customers, in order to combat terrorism, fraud, money laundering, child pornography, copyright infringements, etc.

For more details please visit the official site of C-Gold at www.c-gold.com.