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

7.3%
Flip point: $1,165,415 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,689,881,169,549
Gold: $23,145,880,277,825

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 +1093.87% +100.78%
3 year +105.04% +70.21%
2 year +195.1% +67.57%
1 year +32.97% +39.64%
YTD -9% +27.5%
3 months -15.98% +24.51%
1 month -1.99% +9.5%
1 week -0.26% +3.24%

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.