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

4.45%
Flip point: $1,643,294 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,463,552,190,530
Gold: $32,908,885,684,322

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 +25.67% +172.64%
3 year +157.78% +135.36%
2 year +5.67% +101.23%
1 year -11.55% +53.27%
YTD -16.5% +9.64%
3 months -19.25% +5.34%
1 month +6.75% -7.32%
1 week +9.26% +1.81%

Annual Supply Growth / Inflation

Bitcoin: 0.83%
Gold: 1.72%

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.