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The USD is absolutely going to collapse. We are seeing that happen already.
I suspect there will be one final "blow off top" for the USD where it will become significantly stronger than it is today (due to USD funding crisis in which foreign entities who have debts denominated in USD will have to convert local assets to buy dollars. This will happen because they will have cash-flow crises resulting from Covid sales collapse).
Once the last of these dollar crises have passed, the tidal wave of Fed printing will burst the dam. The world will be flooded with US dollars, and the Fed will be unable to reduce the supply (they have printed to monetize the Treasury debt, and so they have no ability to reduce the supply of cash they've effectively counterfeited).
When that happens, there will be massive inflation and a very very rapid flight out of US dollars.
The best option (In my non-professional opinion, so this is NOT investment advice) is to hold physical gold (coins) and Bitcoin.
I believe Bitcoin has better upside potential, but there is a risk that the blockchain is hacked (two ways to hack the Bitcoin blockchain that would bring the value to essentially zero). The other risk to Bitcoin is that the Internet goes offline (an EMP or an attack could do this) in which case the value would be unaccessible. Barring these contingencies, Bitcoin is much easier to trade and use than gold coins, so it will be the first non-fiat currency that people scramble to buy in a dollar collapse. The price could explode higher.
Gold, on the other hand, has a very very very long history of being money. It is likely to increase in value 20-50x in a dollar collapse. But still would be less than Bitcoin imo.
If it were me, I'd be in gold ~75% and Bitcoin 25% (of the amount I was looking to protect. Obviously, most of my savings would continue to be in my local currency, since that's what my bills and contracts are in)
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