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People really make selling your hodlings seem like a punishment and there were times I felt bad whenever I had to sell my coin even when I'm in some form of profit and this was because I felt I wasn't doing the right thing not until I held my ground and realized it was my possessions and the decisions to sell or hodl are mine and not someone else's to make.
It really should be stated out the type of hodlings and I think first one you mentioned which is buying some coin and coming back after some few years is the best but can mostly be achieved with greater possessions so as not to get liquidated no matter how bad the market might go against the hodler.
Yeah, absolutely.
The thing is that Bitcoin is just money. Of course it's great to have a mentality of saving more than what you spend, that's part of what makes Bitcoin great.
But the thing is that if you need to buy something, then of course you should be able to sell Bitcoin for that. That's the whole point of money, to acquire goods and services.