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Therefore, if we are to bravely face the harsh and unpleasant truth and call things their real names, these people who proudly call themselves hodlers are in fact hoping to get something out of nothing, to get a share of the common pie when they themselves didn't bring anything to the table in the first place. Sounds familiar? So who are they if not parasites?
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The hodlers are also the people that stand to lose the most
if Bitcoin never truly succeeds. Of course a holder that is sitting
on hundreds of Bitcoins isn´t really contributing to BTC merchant adoption.
Nevertheless, he has put a lot of money into Bitcoin (only very few people got
in so early that they managed to acquire huge amounts of BTC for a few dollars)
and has therefore given a huge vote of confidence for Bitcoin.
I´d therefore disagree with the pejorative "parasite", because a parasite
isn´t taking on so much risk and is instead piggybacking off the success
of others.