It's quite surprising how people still consider gold a more profitable investment than Bitcoin. Guess they're not familiar with the saying, 'the higher the risk, the greater the reward'.
People do not consider gold to be more profitable, they only consider it as a store of value. Although, Bitcoin can also be considered as a store of value but the price volatility still make it to be considered as a speculative asset. Gold price is not volatile like that of Bitcoin, while the marketcap of gold is over $10 trillion. Because of this, many many people prefer gold, but I am not disputing the fact that Bitcoin holding is more profitable than buying gold, it is distinctly obvious that holding Bitcoin is more profitable.
Although this doesn't mean you should go taking uncalculated risk as that'll be a deadly move that could cost you all your funds. Bitcoin has shown time without number that it's the better investment vehicle than Gold and it just did it again
If not trading, I do not see any risk there, if someone buy Bitcoin at the present price of $45000 with just $450, even if Bitcoin price decreased to $4500 (which I think can not be possible again), the person will still have $45. If the person hold $45, the person will still have $4.5. if the person hold $4.5, the person will still have $0.45. But, it is certain that the price of bitcoin will reach all-time-high again, while the person will get back his/her fund and make more profits. Bitcoin price is even not likely to plummet to such low price again while increasing above $100000 is very possible than the price to decrease to that extent I used as an example.
Guess there's nothing left to be proven again for bitcoin and it's safe to say it has outperformed Gold in all angles.
I have posted similarly before , this will interest you to read. I did not know much about the news authenticity, but what was on the news is that US dollar price devaluation has been what has been making gold price to have been increasing since 1980:
Gold reached a price of $678 U.S. dollars in 1980, according to a breakdown from Visual Capitalist. Accounting for inflation, based on calculations from Officialdata.org, $678 in 1980 held the same buying power as approximately $2,142 in 2020.
When compared with Bitcoin, Bitcoin was around $10000 at the time, it was said that the US dollar devaluation as a result of inflation is only responsible for $2000 price increase. So, it is obvious that investing in Bitcoin is more profitable even as the price significantly increased during last decade. No asset as perform/increased like Bitcoin.