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

4.56%
Flip point: $1,601,204 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,462,586,489,530
Gold: $32,096,209,064,598

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 +104.33% +138.57%
4 year +150.84% +143.43%
3 year +159.57% +134.26%
2 year +6.81% +92.37%
1 year -32.34% +39.09%
6 months -19.77% +7.76%
YTD -16.63% +5.17%
3 months +8.89% -14.4%
2 months +10.02% +1.2%
1 month -4.43% -0.98%
1 week -5.91% +0.38%

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.