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: $1,539,925 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,269,779,129,142
Gold: $30,908,507,936,216

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 +37.44% +144.66%
4 year +164.55% +154.93%
3 year +120.01% +130.59%
2 year +7.44% +74.39%
1 year -46.16% +30.94%
YTD -27.72% +1.27%
6 months -8.19% -12%
3 months -19.03% -3.62%
2 months -3.56% +1.46%
1 month -0.82% +9.85%
1 week -2.46% +1.37%

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.