Investment means giving the money to someone who uses it for their business and pays you back a dividend (and you normally get some kind of share that can be sold later). Think stocks.
"Save in bank" is actually a kind of investment. You give money to the bank, they use it for their business and give you a small interest (if at all) as dividend, and you can withdraw your money. With current interest rates, this is pretty boring, the only advantage compared to keeping money in a safe at home is that it's easier to do most types of payment, and that you don't need your own safe...
Buying precious metals is not an investment because those metals won't work with the money you paid for them. It's mostly speculation (you hope that you can sell it for a higher price) and safekeeping (real value of money can fall due to inflation, while precious metals will mostly retain their "real" value). But you need to consider storage fees.
To decide which is better you need to know what you consider "good".
Do you want to maximize your ROI? Do you want to store your wealth safely? Do you want to enable entrepreneurs to build their businesses?
Onkel Paul
Very well explained. If I were to decide, I guess I would do both saving and investing through bitcoin. Buying gold would only give you frozen assets since you won't be able to use it. You can only wait for its value to increase until you can sell it for a higher price. Saving in a bank is good but not that much since they only pay you a little interest within a long period of time. Bitcoin is probably the best way to make your money grow faster and you can save it in trusted wallets to make it secure.