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

4.59%
Flip point: $1,592,022 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,463,680,458,800
Gold: $31,912,398,175,682

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 +104.48% +137.2%
4 year +151.03% +142.04%
3 year +159.76% +132.92%
2 year +6.88% +91.27%
1 year -32.29% +38.3%
6 months -19.72% +7.14%
YTD -16.57% +4.56%
3 months +8.97% -14.89%
2 months +10.1% +0.62%
1 month -4.36% -1.55%
1 week -5.84% -0.2%

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.