Both are alternative assets, but gold has traditionally been used as a more secure bet than volatile investments like real estate. btc rise in value is encouraging for crypto advocates who have been hoping it could supplant the gold standard of safer investing. if you look at that and compare it to the price of 1btc, a bitcoin has a higher value. However, this is an arbitrary comparison. something doesn't need to be tangible to have value. It is a digital store of value and exists just like gold does, except not physically for you to touch. The forces of supply and demand still take effect to give it value just like with gold.