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

7.68%
Flip point: $1,096,628 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,669,916,980,692
Gold: $21,740,372,142,498

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 +1168.58% +91%
3 year +82.05% +60.53%
2 year +195.58% +58.91%
1 year +20.71% +39.56%
YTD -9.92% +19.76%
3 months -10.75% +19.8%
1 month -2.06% +9.94%
1 week -3.75% +3.56%

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.