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

4.53%
Flip point: $1,660,403 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,507,402,502,208
Gold: $33,249,586,169,961

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 +35.09% +170.17%
3 year +161.08% +139.7%
2 year +17.64% +99.75%
1 year -11.57% +43.05%
YTD -13.99% +10.77%
3 months -18.67% +2.53%
1 month +7.74% +2.93%
1 week +6.39% +2.97%

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.