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

4.41%
Flip point: $1,520,150 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,345,874,516,252
Gold: $30,512,607,560,089

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 +65.06% +130.68%
4 year +201.44% +136.62%
3 year +167.06% +122.13%
2 year +1.58% +84.68%
1 year -36.43% +24.52%
6 months -24% +0.4%
YTD -23.39% -0.02%
3 months -5.85% -13.52%
2 months -9.61% -10.34%
1 month -17.27% -7.22%
1 week +6% -0.07%

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.