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

4.27%
Flip point: $1,466,856 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,257,004,280,230
Gold: $29,409,742,226,592

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 +77.13% +133.31%
4 year +209.5% +125.96%
3 year +103.72% +115.99%
2 year +9.63% +75.97%
1 year -41.97% +24.74%
YTD -28.36% -3.64%
6 months -31.39% -4.72%
3 months -6.85% -10.25%
2 months -21.46% -7.88%
1 month -1.73% -6.22%
1 week +4.59% +2.36%

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.