Holding of Bitcoin differs with the holding of gold because the value of bitcoin is higher than the value of coin and it is safer to hold than gold if you hold bitcoin for a long time you can have a bigger profit and it is safer to hold than gold.
When this question had been put to community the situation was a little different. I hope that dude made a right choice.
Yes it could be but for me right now there is nothing better than bitcoin mate, as you said at that time situation was a bit different but right now we can see clearly that in market bitcoin is increasing in price, people are involving bitcoin community and they are buying high amount of bitcoin every day, which is making bitcoin unique currency of the era. Gold is nothing in front of bitcoin today as bitcoin has high price, more demand and more security than GOLD now so the market is all BITCOIN now.