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# Did you know that you can trade crypto currencies for real gold?
In these turbulent times of Brexit's and banking scams, it might not be a bad idea to think about putting your money into gold. There are several ways to trade your cryptocurrency for gold.
Below follows a quick tutorial on how to turn your Steem into gold trough Bitgold.com.

First of all you have to trade your Steem or Steemdollars to one of the currencies that is supported on ShapeShift (https://shapeshift.io/), like for example Bitcoin or Ether.
Do this by sending your Steem or Steemdollars to either Poloniex or Bittrex.

Than you go to https://www.bitgold.com/ and create a account.
Next step is to go to deposit.

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Click additional options.

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And select cryptocurrencies.

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Than deposit your crypto's that you got from your Steem. 

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Follow the steps and in no-time you will have some Gold on your account.

After depositing your crypto you can go and redeem physical Gold by selecting redeem and press physical gold.

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Besides Bitgold there are other services like the decentralised platfrom Digix (https://www.dgx.io/) on Ethereum.
I'm not covering that in this post, because of the current uncertainty with Ethereum, but maybe for a later post.

# Introducing the SteemGoldTicker
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Together with my friend [@mauricemikkers](https://steemit.com/@mauricemikkers) we added a page to Steemdollar.com. On this page you can make a conversion from Steem to gold, and see how much Steem to Gold you can convert.

# http://steemdollar.com/gold.php

Wouldn't it be a good idea to have your account and post balance shown in gold? 
It's much older and more stable than the the $.

Interesting video of someone using Bitgold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYp8s0rps8