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

4.29%
Flip point: $1,514,813 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,305,372,953,050
Gold: $30,399,493,166,910

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 +40.46% +148.41%
4 year +180.34% +150.73%
3 year +119.86% +122.68%
2 year +6.79% +76.66%
1 year -44.17% +27.03%
YTD -25.68% -0.39%
6 months -7.2% -14.24%
3 months -19.37% -8.65%
2 months +5.5% +2.33%
1 month +2.89% +4.67%
1 week +2.49% +5.91%

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.