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

4.86%
Flip point: $1,601,816 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,559,051,777,580
Gold: $32,103,278,714,172

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 +92.37% +142.7%
4 year +165.89% +145.33%
3 year +187.12% +129.81%
2 year +8.9% +87.1%
1 year -27.15% +38.15%
6 months -10.22% +11.76%
YTD -11.12% +5.19%
3 months +14.45% -10.65%
2 months +10.26% +1.02%
1 month +2.53% -5.44%
1 week -1.88% -3.07%

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.