Yes it is indeed easier for early adopters to HODL. I'm not that early of an adopter (bought my first coin for 26$) but I find it very easy to hodl, having been through the April bubble and even now sitting on quite massive (unrealized) fiat gains. So...I take it as my responsibility to teach the art of HODL to people who have bought during/after this latest run up and might be in the red for now, getting nervous, some of them having bought in without much knowledge about the underlying technology (though I try to educate each and every one of them). I do this exactly because it is easy for me but might be harder for them.

It's all a cycle. During the last bubble I got told to hodl. Now I tell you to hodl. Next bubble it will be you telling people to hodl. If you hodl now, that is