Even if at risk to get burned...
Gold has been a store of value (distinct rarity) eons before the Internet was invented, holds no counterparty risks, has no dependencies and is recognized literally worldwide, even in the most remote shithole you could imagine and by people who can't even read - let alone speak a language you've ever heard of. Its softness makes it extremely divisible, outside of that there were always "money changers" to suit everyones needs at a fee, nowadays typical coins and bars exist from 1 gram or less all the way to hughe certified LBMA bars for long-term storage for very wealthy beings.
It's there to stay and in its physical form will even outlast humanity as a whole if push comes to shove.
As Money is has become difficult to use because central bankers successfully guided people away from true money & value to
percieved money & value within a mere 100 years.
If they're still alive, show your grand- or if possible even grand-grand-parents a gold coin - they will immediately recognize and acknowledge its value. Same of course is valid for Silver, for example.
Bitcoin is a few years old experiment (with unknown background, which is still wide open to speculation inbetween true extremes) that relies on its arbitrary set scarity, a functional internet connection (which most people don't realize is a high technological infrastructure requirement we've just become used to within merely two decades), a small working group to maintain its entire software and alot of permanently connected nodes and high profile miners to confirm blocks and make transactions work.
Note these are actually (considering where we come from)
very high requirements for BitCoin merely to
function. "Generation Internet" is absolutely unaware of this, they take this for granted.
Just to see how high the requirements are, just remember there are still alot of blind (non-internet) spots even for your "nearly every citizen on the planet has one" mobile phones - even in well-developed countries. Mobile cell phone masts seem "almost always there" but few realize what a gargantuan effort it is to keep these running. Cut off power grid for just 2 days - there goes your entire internet (unless you have an extremely expensive satellite uplink)... Talk to catastrophy responders or people in combat zones about what their typical cell phones were worth after a few days into the mess. The answers would surprise most people.
After that, look no further than a little more remote spots that naturally we wouldn't call the "developed world".
In short, a long long chain of requirements that modern people often take for granted like breathing clean air - unfortunately nothing of that is as granted as it seems to be, a single part of that chain breaking can interrupt the entire glory of hightech. The vast majority only realizes that when it is too late, sometimes just a normal hurricane is enough to do the trick. Then we're not talking Bitcoin, we're talking drinkable water, food and heat and (a true luxury) maybe electricity.
Since the Internet has long stopped being anonymous and efforts to store just about every single datastream for a certain timeframe of possible analysis are underway (look no further than your own governments, be it USA or the entire EU, Russia or China for that matter) and the only thing that holds the dam against complete mayhem is a SHA256 code segment....
Well, all I can say is that Bitcoin (in its current state) isn't exactly there to stay, there are lots of influence factors that can either degrade or nearly devastate it (which need colluded government efforts, but in these times this is something you can count on, if they feel threatened).
Gold or any other precious metal like Silver don't have
any of these weaknesses and are meant to stay.
And as opposed to Money (Cash as we know it) or BitCoin and the likes, the truly wealthy and powerful people on the planet are absolutely into Gold.
Always have been, regardless what they say. Their "family" realms lasted many centuries because they know what value is and that it survives world wars or any changes in governments/regimes.
They don't care about money or bitcoin because they know these are merely tools that carry counterparty risks that are unacceptable over generational timeframes.
These come and go, precious metals stay.
The general population, however, has been broadly speaking converted into pure "functional worker/consumer slaves", many of which wouldn't recognize true value if you hit them on the head with it.
Almost as good as brainwashed slaves, who willfully accept any substitue (even arbitrary binary 0's and 1's) that cover their primitive consumtion needs or achieve "percieved wealth".
They're meant to be in no competition to their masters for true money (which would be in insufficient supply to satisfy global demand), that goal is almost achieved.
Gold is the money of kings
Silver is the money of gentlemen
Barter is the money of peasants
Debt is the money of slaves.It's up to everyone self to locate an appropriate spot for BitCoin in that list.
