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

4.1%
Flip point: $1,535,389 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,264,765,936,065
Gold: $30,816,602,491,758

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 +34% +145.16%
4 year +160.62% +153.87%
3 year +116.03% +129.3%
2 year +9.36% +77.34%
1 year -46.3% +30.35%
YTD -28% +0.97%
6 months -8.3% -12.68%
3 months -20.3% -3.94%
2 months -4.95% +1.44%
1 month -2.64% +7.63%
1 week -2.93% +0.69%

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.