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

4.78%
Flip point: $1,616,351 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,550,123,335,140
Gold: $32,442,621,893,709

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 +56.99% +157.66%
4 year +264.72% +168.36%
3 year +195.22% +142.55%
2 year +30.77% +81.46%
1 year -32.4% +37.11%
YTD -11.76% +6.3%
6 months +13.62% -9.7%
3 months -0.3% +1.21%
2 months +20.22% +10.85%
1 month +18.45% +14.55%
1 week +21.76% +5.83%

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.