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

5.27%
Flip point: $1,538,373 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,628,260,001,760
Gold: $30,901,438,286,643

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 +71.12% +149.2%
4 year +314.21% +156.97%
3 year +197.81% +126.24%
2 year +28.74% +68.89%
1 year -29.91% +18.68%
YTD -7.38% +1.25%
6 months +16.01% -5.92%
3 months +27.63% +5.45%
2 months +25.33% +9.52%
1 month +16.98% -2.54%
1 week +4.92% +0.51%

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.