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...hodling might be considered as long process of gambling???
I guess it might be yes. If you are not monitoring the crypto market price then it would be gambling but if you know you can simply sell your holding coins in order to cut your loses. However, this is a case to case basis. If we compared both these holding and gambling, the worst I guess is gambling rather than holding. But when it comes the whole concept and outcome they are both gambling that risk money.
Well said which is definitely true.When we do talk about essence of risking money then they are similar but talking about the level of risk then they can be differentiated.
You can lessen up the risk on hodling if you do know on what you are doing not just randomly buying some stuff or coin and wait for its price to rise up.Always rely into those being mostly supported like BTC or ETH.