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

4.27%
Flip point: $1,520,792 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,302,792,276,450
Gold: $30,519,677,209,663

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 +40.18% +149.39%
4 year +179.78% +151.72%
3 year +119.43% +123.56%
2 year +6.58% +77.36%
1 year -44.28% +27.53%
YTD -25.82% 0%
6 months -7.39% -13.9%
3 months -19.53% -8.29%
2 months +5.29% +2.74%
1 month +2.69% +5.09%
1 week +2.29% +6.33%

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.