What I do not understand is that the average account level in the Byeball thread is pretty high, a lot of Legendary/Hero accounts, posting consistently. Why do they all stick around, why not leave after having received all the airdrops? Surely there must be more to it, there is a lot of belief in Byteball but I can't exactly pin point why. Can others maybe shed a light on this?
A lot of Bitcoin maximalists missed out on Ethereum, they mostly sold from $3 to $24 when they all mostly bought Ethereum at mere cents. The first years of Ethereum was full of fud and they all cashed out early. If they held long enough, they could have been filthy rich.
Ethereum was new crypto technology focusing on smart contracts. This was the reason to hold for a long time. And now the newest innovation are DAG coins, in which most will hedge their positions that they will soon dominate the top ranking coins in the following years.
Byteball is indeed a long hold of 3 - 5 years.
I think you are right. The first year of Ethereum went live the price range was from 0.5 cents to 20 dollar...