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

5.69%
Flip point: $1,528,482 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,746,533,687,328
Gold: $30,703,488,098,579

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 +102.52% +145.92%
4 year +360.79% +157.59%
3 year +220.66% +125.03%
2 year +37.73% +65.76%
1 year -24.86% +17.82%
YTD -0.66% +0.6%
6 months +23.24% -3.38%
3 months +35.35% +4.9%
2 months +33.35% +8.41%
1 month +19.07% -3.55%
1 week +13.18% +0.28%

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.