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

4.11%
Flip point: $1,543,968 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,273,012,343,026
Gold: $30,986,274,081,527

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 +38.94% +150.31%
4 year +164.87% +155.57%
3 year +115.78% +128.88%
2 year +7.87% +80.37%
1 year -46.59% +30.87%
YTD -27.52% +1.53%
6 months -5.24% -12.97%
3 months -22.38% -7.71%
2 months -0.19% +4.43%
1 month -0.72% +7.01%
1 week -0.98% +8.01%

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.