The Bitcoin-Gold Flippening

flip.gold tracks several metrics to compare Gold to Bitcoin (sometimes called "digital gold".) Some of these metrics might put bitcoin on top (in the future); this is the Bitcoin-Gold flippening.


Market Cap

7.71%
Flip point: $1,096,667 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,678,241,368,995
Gold: $21,754,219,513,289

Bitcoin's market cap is transparent and can be validated by anyone. For gold, supply estimates vary.
Sources: CoinGecko and World Gold Council reports.


Price Performance

Period Bitcoin Gold
5 year +1174.14% +91.12%
3 year +82.85% +60.63%
2 year +196.87% +59.01%
1 year +21.23% +39.64%
YTD -9.52% +19.83%
3 months -10.36% +19.88%
1 month -1.63% +10.01%
1 week -3.33% +3.63%

Annual Supply Growth / Inflation

Bitcoin: 0.83%
Gold: 1.72%

Bitcoin is disinflationary and halves the mining reward every ~4 years. For gold, it depends on how much has been mined and recycled. Theoretically, more new supply means more new demand (buy pressure) is needed to maintain the price.
Sources: Bitcoin code and World Gold Council quarterly reports.