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

4.56%
Flip point: $1,570,914 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,438,947,196,938
Gold: $31,530,637,098,702

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 +53.37% +150.7%
4 year +242.28% +159%
3 year +174.64% +135.98%
2 year +20.34% +77.9%
1 year -36.43% +34.3%
YTD -18.09% +3.31%
6 months +7.13% -10.41%
3 months -6.66% -0.67%
2 months +12.88% +7.6%
1 month +10.84% +11.75%
1 week +13.06% +1.64%

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.