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Launch record

THIS PROJECT STARTED

30 January 2026

228 days of development

Every date here comes from the project’s own history rather than being written after the fact. We publish it because the order of events deserves to be checkable.

1 September 2026

Open data archive

Daily series published as downloadable CSV, with missing days disclosed automatically.

1 September 2026

Member activity log

Pages and dwell time derived from existing pageview data.

27 August 2026

Gold trading simulator

Practice at real market prices with a virtual balance, with ranks and daily missions.

26 August 2026

News archived as articles

Every gathered brief is stored as reviewable draft articles.

25 August 2026

Iraq’s gold reserve

Daily valuation of the central bank’s holdings and each citizen’s share.

22 August 2026

Analyst track record

Recording analysts’ and pages’ forecasts and scoring them against the realised price.

21 August 2026

Move attribution: gold or the dollar?

Splitting the dinar move into its two drivers — world gold and the exchange rate.

12 August 2026

Unified ad system

Direct company ads alongside Google AdSense.

10 August 2026

Realtime price streaming

Live price updates with a change flash across the site.

9 August 2026

People’s Gold Pulse

Reading market sentiment from the site’s own visitor behaviour.

8 August 2026

Pro candlestick chart

A full candlestick chart for the gold price.

5 August 2026

Gold by world currency

Gold priced across multiple currencies.

3 August 2026

Community Q&A

Questions and answers with images, moderation and sharing.

20 July 2026

Pro dark mode

A full dark palette with live price flash.

19 July 2026

Visual identity: gold & teal

Gold with a financial teal accent adopted as the site’s identity.

2 July 2026

Homepage redesign

The “quiet luxury” homepage and light frame.

30 January 2026

Project started

The first commit in the project’s repository.

Why we publish this

Good ideas get imitated; that is normal in any market. Dates do not. We publish our record in full so any reader can put events in order themselves, without being asked to take our word for anything.

And because this page is worth nothing if a single date on it is untrue, it binds us before it binds anyone else.

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