ABOUT US & OUR VISION

My name is Oliver Antunovic. I am the founder and managing director of STANDARD IN GOLD Group. Therefore, I am personally fully liable for all activities of the company.

Before I discuss the vision of STANDARD IN GOLD, I would like to briefly describe my professional background in order to demonstrate that my team and I are ideally suited for the work that STANDARD IN GOLD requires.

At the age of 21, I was one of the top advisors at Allianz Insurance Group and responsible for the distribution of Allianz Investment Bank products. At the age of 23, I was recruited by a headhunter as a key account manager at GE Money Bank. I was soon the youngest branch manager at this bank at the age of 24. Four years later, I moved to WÜSTENROT Bausparkasse, one of the largest home loan and savings banks in Europe, where I worked as a sales manager.

Honestly, it was a good career, but it did not make me happy because it taught me how our monetary system works. I was shocked. Particularly, the unjust treatment of customers in the realm of bank interest caused me great anger. Furthermore, I had been traveling a lot during my career and realized that it wasn't only people in Austria and Europe who were suffering from the deficits of our financial system. Instead, the resulting problems were visible worldwide. I no longer wanted to support this!

So I decided to set up my own business and opened my first precious metal trade. That was ten years ago.

I finally came to the conclusion that J. P. Morgan was right. He said: “Gold is money, everything else is credit.” This quote dates back to 1912, and the man knew what he was talking about.

Over the years, I got to know a huge number of like-minded people, made contacts from Ottawa to Chennai and put together an internationally networked team of professionals who, together with me, will make STANDARD IN GOLD a successful company in the interests of token holders.

My team and I share a critical opinion: we no longer trust the central banks.

OUR VISION AND OBJECTIVES 

I had the idea for a gold-backed online currency like STANDARD IN GOLD, or STAND for short, over 20 years ago. But the technology was not yet mature enough to make it happen back then. This has changed with the development of blockchain. 

Since the gold standard ended on August 15, 1971, and we no longer have any real value behind our money, we have been experiencing inflation that is increasingly devaluing our money every year. However, we must not forget that money is the symbolic representation of our working time. Therefore, we have to work longer and longer for the same quality of life. 

This is attributable to the fact that the responsible central banks print money at will. However, you will agree with me that, just like people before 1971, we only have 24 hours a day at our disposal.

As long as our monetary system is not based on limited assets, this madness will continue.

There are now numerous cryptocurrencies on the market. Many of them are very good! Unfortunately, they all have the same problem. Their value is tied to the fiat currency system. The value is always compared in USD. When you consider that the USD has already lost 85% of its value since the separation from the gold standard, it quickly becomes clear that all these excellent cryptocurrencies will show a similar performance as long as they are tied to the fiat money system.

The goal of STANDARD IN GOLD is for cryptocurrencies to be valued in STANDARD IN GOLD. It should become the goal of any decent and reputable cryptocurrency to provide STANDARD IN GOLD coverage. This would mean that these cryptocurrencies would also be backed by gold!

Think about the impact. The wealth that this will spread globally is hard to imagine. In the days of the old gold standard, one income was enough for a family of seven. Today, that seems impossible.

With STANDARD IN GOLD, we now have the opportunity to introduce a new and better gold standard worldwide and, as a community, shape a future where prosperity is equally accessible to all.

I am confident that you understand and share my vision, and together we will create a new, better world in which STANDARD IN GOLD and blockchain technology offer us equal opportunities and where global prosperity is the motivation and goal of us all.

Oliver Antunovic, Vienna, January 17, 2022