Although bitcoin is more portable than gold but gold still better than bitcoin. Both are very worthy. Bitcoin has many advantages that will help many people. It can become currency and asset at the same time, the value of it is tend to rise. Bitcoin theoritically is appropriate as a store of a value, it has limited amount, uncounterfeited, fast in term of transaction and many more but since there are many hoarders or what we call whales who influence it price in the market then for now it risk become bigger.
Bitcoin is not just more portable than gold, it's extremely more portable. In fact, I can't think of more extremes. I can carry Bitcoin inside my head if I wanted to (memorize my seed and restore any time I want) so it's like the most extreme comparison you could ever make.
Speaking of counterfeit, we all thought it couldn't happen but BCH/BTG and whatever other fork all showed that even if people counterfeit Bitcoin, it still has value if enough people are tricked.