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%
Flip point: $1,559,528 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,565,404,937,008
Gold: $31,311,477,961,917

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 +65.45% +144.43%
4 year +293.68% +158.85%
3 year +185.63% +127.95%
2 year +31.8% +76.88%
1 year -28.33% +28.53%
YTD -10.91% +2.59%
6 months +13.22% -16.54%
3 months +5.72% -1.62%
2 months +33.16% +10.81%
1 month +20.47% +8.18%
1 week +0.33% -3.8%

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.