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

4.11%
Flip point: $1,534,313 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,266,227,441,397
Gold: $30,795,393,543,037

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 +34.16% +144.99%
4 year +160.92% +153.7%
3 year +116.27% +129.14%
2 year +9.48% +77.22%
1 year -46.24% +30.26%
YTD -27.92% +0.9%
6 months -8.19% -12.74%
3 months -20.21% -4.01%
2 months -4.85% +1.37%
1 month -2.53% +7.56%
1 week -2.82% +0.62%

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.