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

3.84%
Flip point: $1,758,336 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,349,992,569,744
Gold: $35,147,774,589,953

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 +50.59% +173.84%
3 year +212.23% +173.1%
2 year +41.38% +149.51%
1 year -30.66% +73.47%
3 months -36.23% +23.26%
YTD -22.83% +17.1%
1 month -25.33% +12.33%
1 week -10.71% +2.56%

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.