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

4.26%
Flip point: $1,467,259 per bitcoin
Bitcoin: $1,254,795,861,504
Gold: $29,423,881,525,739

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 +76.79% +133.43%
4 year +208.89% +126.07%
3 year +103.32% +116.1%
2 year +9.41% +76.06%
1 year -42.08% +24.8%
YTD -28.51% -3.59%
6 months -31.52% -4.67%
3 months -7.03% -10.2%
2 months -21.61% -7.84%
1 month -1.92% -6.18%
1 week +4.39% +2.41%

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.