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

4.53%
Flip point: $1,434,645 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,303,329,090,024
Gold: $28,780,543,414,533

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 +74.27% +126.42%
4 year +205.95% +138.49%
3 year +121.26% +106.54%
2 year -4.35% +70.62%
1 year -44.92% +21.59%
YTD -25.77% -5.7%
6 months -26.43% -19.35%
3 months -17.39% -12.92%
2 months -14.32% -9.69%
1 month +8.31% +0.02%
1 week +0.45% +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.