Preparing for a recession... Gold or Bitcoin?
Of course Bitcoin. Harder question would be in times of war (especially world war 3) what you would choose, bitcoin or gold? With gold you could buy food and with Bitcoin? Only in countries not involved in war.
And what would war change about bitcoin?
If you have a network and you have access to it you can still exchange it from virtual currency to fiat and vice versa.
You could even trade with other people in same country the war is at at exchangers like localbitcoins or talk with them and trade currency virtually and get your fiat face to face if you couldnt access the banks.