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Actually, if you are just getting started in bitcoin, then 10 years would be a pretty good investment timeline to build up the quantity of your bitcoins.
In the scheme of things, even 10 years is fairly short for an investment timeline and to really establish your position, even though bitcoin has shown the ability of investors to profit quite well in the short term, too. Yet, many times traditional investment timelines tend to take 30 years or longer to really bear fruit... and frequently there will be needs for persistence and even smart investment and preserving capital while building capital.
In regards to bitcoin, there could be up to 3 upwards and downwards cycles between now and 2030, though, so it is good to prepare for those kinds of cyclical possibilities, too... .even though none of the BTC price action matters are even close to guaranteed, there are merely a variety of decent BTC price prediction models, that so far seem to be valid, which would include the stock to flow model amongst the most well known of the current seemingly valid BTC price prediction models.
Of course, your choice, yet there are a decent number of people who are going to figure out ways tto invest in bitcoin in ways that don't really hurt them, in the even that they lose everything, but that they would also be in a decent position to potentially profit stupendously from bitcoin in the event that it does perform anywhere close to the asymmetric bet that it presents.
You may be presented with a great once in a lifetime opportunity to invest in something (referring to bitcoin) that seems to be such a great asymmetric bet, but sure, do what the fuck you want, if you believe that you are better off with gold, then that is your choice in the event that you believe that you have to choose one or another.
By the way, for more than 10 years before I got into bitcoin (I got into bitcoin in late 2013), I had been considering investing in gold in order to hedge my dollar-based investments, and surely, I considered almost all of my other investments to be dollar based or dollar dependent in some kind of way... and some of my explorations into gold was causing me to consider gold to have a bit too many dollar dependencies too and including several complications that seemed to be considerably less problematic in bitcoin in terms of various attributes that bitcoin has in regards to its scarcity, verifiability, portability, divisibility and even some of the various third party complications that come with buying/selling, securing and/or transporting gold. So, I suppose that part of my receptivity towards bitcoin soon after learning about bitcoin came from my desire to find an investment that was kind of like gold but seeming to have fewer problems that I had perceived to have been in gold, and the case for bitcoin is way the fuck stronger than it was in late 2013 when I started or even in 2014 while I was building my initial investment into bitcoin while continuing to study it.
So, I have some troubles with how you could be so hot and heavy about gold when there are a whole hell of a lot of challenges with gold, likely little upside, and even current generation of investors are likely to increasingly learn similar things to me in terms of appreciating bitcoin to be much better than gold in a variety of ways, so in that regard, you are likely to witness ongoing gravitation of value into bitcoin and some of that value is also going to come from gold bugs either migrating over to bitcoin or at least hedging some of their investments with bitcoin instead of gold.. which seems to be happening more and more and more, even if you want to stick with that historical relic of an investment that is likely to continue to underperform bitcoin, just like it has done in the past 10 years.. gold is likely to continue underperform bitcoin in the coming 10 years... and we will see... we will see.. hopefully you figure it out rather than assuming that shininess or the fact that you can snuggle up with your gold bars or coins actually means value, when it may well be more of a burden than it is worth.. except perhaps having some gold in small portions.. just for funzies... rather than a practical long term investment hedge/compliment.