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

5.09%
Flip point: $1,547,614 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,580,744,100,252
Gold: $31,078,179,525,985

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 +67.5% +145.72%
4 year +308.28% +157.08%
3 year +200.54% +129.68%
2 year +45.37% +75.91%
1 year -29.17% +22.25%
YTD -10.06% +1.83%
6 months +17.01% -14.54%
3 months +24.45% +1.78%
2 months +24.26% +7.51%
1 month +21.34% +1.55%
1 week +0.21% -1.04%

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.