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

5.2%
Flip point: $1,518,174 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,584,969,146,496
Gold: $30,491,398,611,368

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 +74.83% +140.55%
4 year +290.98% +152.52%
3 year +200.94% +125.93%
2 year +30.18% +67.5%
1 year -31.95% +18.46%
YTD -9.83% -0.09%
6 months +11.2% -13.72%
3 months +22.58% +2.42%
2 months +26.79% +8.04%
1 month +24.42% -0.53%
1 week -1.76% -2.35%

Annual Supply Growth / Inflation

Bitcoin: 0.83%
Gold: 1.63%

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.