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

5.98%
Flip point: $1,597,945 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,908,167,124,480
Gold: $31,921,549,583,081

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 +163.47% +149.24%
3 year +351.1% +143.17%
2 year +121.38% +126.83%
1 year -4.52% +70.35%
3 months -11.62% +4.55%
1 month +8.77% +6.37%
YTD +9.14% +6.35%
1 week +5.54% +2.18%

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.