In short, HODL is inevitable, whatever one may say;)))
Although it is difficult to condemn people who bought several hundred cuebs for pennies in 2010-2011 and began to actively withdraw funds to Fiat in 2017, having seen their long-frivolous acquisitions turned into numbers with how many zeros.
I regret that I was not among those people, although I had met references to bitcoins in specialized journals, such as habrhabr, for a long time.