I think you should just stick to what you believe, everybody with his/her opinion about things, some will definitely choose to hold why some will prefer to trade, atlast both will get a particular result suitable for their decision. Just keep doing your thing, don't follow anybody but your mind.
following your own desires is the best lesson in trading, because everything or experience is the best teacher,
if you get through the hardships when trading Bitcoin, then you will be successful in trading on the future, I'm sure
That's good, you mean our failures on every experiences would always give us the best lessons. Partly it taught us everything in life to make it as a warning on our next plans in order to become successful. Following our desires sometimes fails, that's why we need to listen from our mentors that can give us reliable advise. But, you can't apply all of them because only few points can be used in reality of our trading career.