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

3.84%
Flip point: $1,704,322 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,306,655,695,949
Gold: $34,035,283,208,273

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 +36.84% +168.37%
3 year +198.92% +164.45%
2 year +35.78% +141.85%
1 year -31.66% +69.08%
3 months -36.45% +18.55%
YTD -25.24% +13.39%
1 month -27.95% +7.99%
1 week -10.58% -2.06%

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.