Gold is a safe investment and store of value, but it won't make you much. Strong bet if you Invested the same into crypto on a coin you have researched and believe in the fundamentals of you could potentially make 2-10x+ your investment. With the widespread and rapid adoption of Crypto its highly unlikely to crash to nothing unless something major happened. Also no losses until you sell, you could watch it drop 60% a year then fly up 1000% the next. Or diversify and do half in gold, half in crypto?