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

4.76%
Flip point: $1,626,804 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,550,508,610,913
Gold: $32,568,185,198,682

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 +49.04% +161.82%
3 year +177.98% +135.61%
2 year +15.87% +100.77%
1 year -17.23% +39.86%
YTD -11.51% +8.5%
3 months -13.41% -5.37%
1 month +14.15% +4.81%
1 week +3.5% -2.5%

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.