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

4.37%
Flip point: $1,654,327 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,447,711,704,251
Gold: $33,159,196,245,200

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 +24.39% +171.43%
3 year +158.25% +137.15%
2 year +0.84% +103.98%
1 year -5.37% +59.55%
YTD -17.47% +10.47%
3 months -20.61% +6.59%
1 month +9.38% -5.3%
1 week +6.08% +0.51%

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.