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

4.25%
Flip point: $1,524,708 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,300,549,899,496
Gold: $30,597,443,354,974

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 +48.12% +151.77%
4 year +172.04% +152.66%
3 year +117.63% +124.6%
2 year +4.77% +78.55%
1 year -44.46% +27.67%
YTD -25.95% +0.25%
6 months -8.13% -13.63%
3 months -19.18% -7.91%
2 months +2.74% +0.79%
1 month +4.11% +6.5%
1 week +3.24% +7.13%

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.