People prefer to use digital currency because most of them are looking for where to tap profit from, which gold is not given them that, only a few who are involved in bitcoin go into it because they need privacy and total control, as some of them don't even care about it but only chose it because it's the oldest with the highest market capitalization, which shows some level of trust and nothing more.
Yes, indeed people prefer level of trust is different now than before, maybe they see the current progress which is more towards digital money and making it a trend for now, and that is something common because they think that gold does not provide many benefits, among them many choose bitcoin which they apply of course reaping profits is the main reason,
because they think more advanced for the present.