Bitcoin to gold: how much gold does 1 BTC buy?
One bitcoin currently buys roughly 14.14 troy oz. The ratio is recomputed every day at 02:00 UTC from the previous trading day's BTC-USD and XAU-USD closes on stooq — the same spot price the wholesale bullion market settles against. Move the slider on the homepage to see what a fractional or institutional-scale bitcoin position is worth in gold; the dataset goes back to 2 January 2013.
Gold is the natural reference asset for any 'is bitcoin actually money?' question. It's mined at a roughly fixed 1.5% annual rate, has a four-thousand-year market history, and trades against every currency on the planet. A bitcoin's purchasing power in gold strips out fiat noise and leaves a pure scarcity-vs-scarcity ratio.
Open the interactive viewer → — scrub the slider from 1 sat to 21 M BTC, or drag the date back to 2013 to see how the cube grows and shrinks across history.
About gold and bitcoin
Gold's density is 19.32 g/cm³ — almost the densest naturally occurring metal you can hold without specialist handling. A troy ounce (31.1035 g) of gold occupies just 1.61 cm³, smaller than a sugar cube. The cube renderer on the homepage and this page draws the volume to true scale next to a constant 9-kg Shiba Inu so the eye has a reference.
For analysts, every BTC-to-gold pair in the dataset goes back to BTC's first liquid trading days. The full archive is published under CC-BY-4.0 at /data in CSV, JSON, NDJSON, and Parquet. The methodology page documents the stooq feed, the cross-validation step against Massive's secondary feed, and the forward-fill rule that handles weekends and exchange holidays.
Frequently asked questions
- How many troy ounces of gold does 1 bitcoin buy today?
- About 14.14 troy oz. The number updates every day at 02:00 UTC from stooq XAUUSD and BTC-USD closes.
- How is the BTC-to-gold ratio calculated?
- Each day's BTC-USD close is divided by the same day's XAU-USD close (USD per troy ounce). Both come from stooq's spot feeds. The methodology page describes the cross-validation, forward-fill, and per-source health-check rules.
- Does the price include premiums for physical bullion?
- No — the dataset uses spot (paper) gold. Physical-bullion premiums vary by product (coin, bar, refiner, region) and typically run 2–8% over spot. For investable comparison purposes, spot is the standard reference.
- How far back does the BTC-to-gold history go?
- To 2 January 2013, when BTC's USD market was first deep enough that a daily close is meaningful. Earlier prices exist but are too thin to be representative.
- Can I download the raw data?
- Yes. The full daily archive is published under CC-BY-4.0 at /data in CSV, JSON, NDJSON, and Parquet. The same data powers the homepage slider and this page.