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

4.86%
Flip point: $1,573,916 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,534,756,606,803
Gold: $31,551,846,047,423

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 +105.32% +139.69%
4 year +151.99% +143.61%
3 year +184.78% +125.75%
2 year +15.56% +84.27%
1 year -27.52% +38.43%
6 months -16.2% +9.55%
YTD -12.52% +3.38%
3 months +14.41% -10.35%
2 months +9.57% -3.94%
1 month +3.66% -5.64%
1 week -4.87% -5.24%

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.