if it was me, I already lost a lot when I even bought those Bitcoins at $18,000 so the best thing I can do is to gamble it and earn more bitcoins to decrease my loss or breakeven it.
It seems that you have forget the fact that gambling is not at all a way to recover your losses. During the beer market all the bitcoin holders must be in depression/frustration due to their losses by the declined bitcoin prices, a frustrated gambler could never come out of gambling with profits. I mean to say you must need to be emotionally balanced when enter into gambling and when you are starting gambling for the reason of recovering your losses then definitely your emotions will collapse everything.
You have to have a lot of guts to do this and personally I dont.I would wait for better days regarding to bitcoin price as a solution.
That must be a perfect solution for any bitcoin holder for the problem of bear market. With respect to the speculation about the future of bitcoin, I believe there will not be any problem if you hold your bitcoin to recover your losses incurred due to the investments in bitcoins. Just holding will solve everything and that will be no room for gambling here in this case of bitcoin-holding and bear-market.