I do not know why they say gold is better than bitcoin, while bitcoin transactions are spreading in their midst.
My speculation, maybe they do not know bitcoin or do not know how to use bitcoin, when in fact they admit that bitcoin is better than gold.
I agree with your opinion, maybe those who say gold is better than bitcoin because they want a safe investment, we need to know that bitcoin is very risky. and most likely, because they have known gold first than bitcoin.
No doubt that gold is safe investment as compare to bitcoin, but i think that the income that we can get from bitcoin cannot get from gold investment, because we can see a very slight change in the price of gold even after years, while investment in bitcoin can give us a very good profit in a very very short period of time that i think cannot possible from anything else.