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

5.63%
Flip point: $1,501,995 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,700,312,308,480
Gold: $30,180,334,030,125

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 +95.26% +143.94%
4 year +340.29% +154.71%
3 year +222.93% +124.33%
2 year +29.92% +59.65%
1 year -22.87% +13.66%
YTD -3.31% -1.11%
6 months +23.01% -3%
3 months +41.08% +4.89%
2 months +29.53% +4.61%
1 month +7.09% -7.4%
1 week +4.17% -2.4%

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.