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

5.12%
Flip point: $1,558,268 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,601,834,683,064
Gold: $31,290,269,013,196

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 +59.5% +142.39%
4 year +299.26% +159.29%
3 year +208.85% +128.73%
2 year +37.57% +77.39%
1 year -27.95% +24.4%
YTD -8.85% +2.52%
6 months +9.77% -13.67%
3 months +25.04% -0.23%
2 months +26.43% +6.37%
1 month +24.52% +9.07%
1 week +2.51% -0.72%

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.