Gold is the world's best physical commodity to use as a store of value -- it doesn't degrade or tarnish, is easily molded into coins or other symbols, melts easily, has a highly fixed supply (synthesizing it is prohibitively expensive), and (now) increasingly is not tied to an industrial output so can weather GDP fluctuations. So in a battle Royale of all commodities, gold wins. That said, all commodities are affected by price action by speculators, so the actual traded value of gold can be very unrealistic.
Gold is conceptually very similar to bitcoin, except gold can't be forked or copied. Which is why in the long term, I prefer gold.
What makes you trust consensus? Consensus is fickle. Gold is unique in its physical properties. Even if you can’t agree on which country has a trustworthy currency, you have to trust gold.
Good has a long history of use as a store of value. Bitcoin has a few years of being valuable. So did beanie babies. Noone knows if Bitcoin will be worth 0 or 100,000 in 5 years.
Gold is conceptually very similar to bitcoin, except gold can't be forked or copied. Which is why in the long term, I prefer gold.