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

5.62%
Flip point: $1,505,426 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,698,506,090,925
Gold: $30,243,960,876,289

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 +95.09% +144.46%
4 year +339.9% +155.25%
3 year +222.64% +124.8%
2 year +29.81% +59.99%
1 year -22.94% +13.9%
YTD -3.4% -0.9%
6 months +22.9% -2.79%
3 months +40.95% +5.11%
2 months +29.41% +4.83%
1 month +6.99% -7.2%
1 week +4.07% -2.19%

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.