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

9.24%
Flip point: $1,118,595 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $2,051,932,769,175
Gold: $22,211,182,749,406

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 +1002.28% +84.26%
3 year +245.35% +72.38%
2 year +282.43% +60.72%
1 year +58.35% +34.9%
YTD +10.51% +22.35%
3 months +7.48% +11.31%
1 month +22.87% -4.72%
1 week +0.37% -3.81%

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.