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

4.77%
Flip point: $1,654,725 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,580,549,581,782
Gold: $33,142,517,201,506

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 +57.81% +159.72%
4 year +170.94% +155.62%
3 year +194.59% +132.42%
2 year +28.3% +98.56%
1 year -23.29% +44.74%
6 months -22.27% +12.29%
YTD -9.83% +8.59%
3 months +19.23% -4.11%
2 months +11.86% -7.7%
1 month +11.53% +0.95%
1 week -2.49% +2.29%

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.