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

4.39%
Flip point: $1,591,772 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,399,388,002,530
Gold: $31,852,018,871,726

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 +20.07% +163.73%
3 year +148.11% +129.51%
2 year +12.56% +112.18%
1 year -19.45% +50.05%
3 months -20.62% +5.38%
YTD -20.09% +6.12%
1 month +4.51% -7.98%
1 week -0.87% -9.81%

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.