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

4.8%
Flip point: $1,612,125 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,554,539,069,100
Gold: $32,357,786,098,825

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 +57.43% +156.99%
4 year +265.76% +167.66%
3 year +196.06% +141.91%
2 year +31.14% +80.98%
1 year -32.21% +36.75%
YTD -11.51% +6.02%
6 months +13.95% -9.94%
3 months -0.01% +0.95%
2 months +20.56% +10.56%
1 month +18.79% +14.25%
1 week +22.11% +5.56%

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.