obviously gold would be the safe bet and bitcoin the risky. With gold having had thousands of years of maintained value and bitcoin being a few years old and extremely volatile.
Yes it will still depend on you. You can take a risk in bitcoin but you need to be ready on possible things that may happen. Think about and understand the characteristic of bitcoin. When it comes to Gold, yes it is truly much safer because even bitcoin doesnt exist before, gold was already there. Choose what you wisely everytime you made a decision and make sure that you will not regret it in the end.