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

9.3%
Flip point: $1,158,314 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $2,144,869,249,302
Gold: $23,055,872,367,681

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 +1064.56% +86.55%
3 year +397.49% +91.05%
2 year +255.46% +72.9%
1 year +92.84% +39.45%
YTD +15.24% +27%
3 months +36.09% +11.07%
1 month +1.96% +0.33%
1 week +0.58% +0.6%

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.