so perhaps is very important to be able to distinguish between investment through DCA and holding because they are actually two different things and however most people believe that since almost everyone that intend holding uses DCA for accumulation they assume that holding is the same thing as DCA because even me I was thinking the same way until I realized they are not the same.
Holding is obviously not the same as investing using DCA methods, it's even better to compare holding to trading because that's where people normally make mistake from but comparing holding to the DCA methods of bitcoin accumulation is just same as saying that winning the world cup is just same as participating in the world cup tournament.
DCA methods is just a strategy used to accumulate Bitcoin in a safe and easy way that can work well mostly for new investors that aren't yet strong enough financially to accumulate in bunch of bitcoin at a time and so will have to buy it at regular intervals just do they can Hold it. Regardless of weather a user decides to using the DCA methods or not, the end product is to hold the DIP and that's basically the obvious difference between Holding and investing into bitcoin using the DCA methord.
As a matter of fact, I think the two concept are even parallel in connection and their is no need to compare them.
@hewlet your really going off topic relating holding to trading, I don't see how there are the same thing or even related, just imagine buying a piece of land(I'm using land here cause its the most relatable I can think off) knowing its value and deciding to stake it, with hopes of getting more lands can you call that investment or hodling, but if you buy a piece of land, keeping it until it grows in value, now that a good example of holding. There Are two separate things and are not relatable. Anyone that trades or engages in short term investment is actually placing a bet on the odds of if thigns would go his way or not, and it's way risky than actually holding bitcoin, cause just like land it is guaranteed to give to profits on the long run than instantly unless something happens to the land or property.
And why we use DCA strategy is cause it helps us to accumulate bitcoin on a longer time frame since it eliminates the frear and panic caused by market volatility, so it's used to accumulate Bitcoin, while hold her simply means the act of keeping that our bitcoin for long, in some cases we even plan on holding forever, with the expectation of even more profit, just imagine if anyone has been holding bitcoin for about 10 years now and has been accumulating with DCA he would have gotten a real big portfolio and his profits would even be up to 20x for the much older coins he has bought and can now decide sell some to maybe build a house or for whatever ever reason he was holding for.
In this thread we are on the fact that holding Bitcoin profits more than any other practice you can engage in with bitcoin, be it trading or short term investment.