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

8.83%
Flip point: $1,194,058 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $2,098,117,046,705
Gold: $23,748,240,907,251

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 +1014.09% +98.61%
3 year +294.12% +83.72%
2 year +307.15% +75.09%
1 year +54.63% +47.72%
YTD +12.82% +30.82%
3 months +25.76% +17.35%
1 month +2.54% +5.9%
1 week +3.78% +2.02%

Annual Supply Growth / Inflation

Bitcoin: 0.83%
Gold: 1.72%

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.