There is no such thing as short term investing. You are using the term short term investor to describe trading. ... So when it comes to bitcoin anything less than 4 years is not investing.. it is trading. .you are wanting to play some kind of a price wave. Yeah you might fool yourself into believing that you are investing because you have 1 or 2 or even 3 years, but you are just playing the trade.. Most likely to really consider bitcoin as an investment you need to think in terms of 10 years or more... otherwise, it seems that you are mixing up trading and investing, since it sounds like you are just trying to get in and then out of it with some short term fiat profits and you are not really considering holding it long term.
Even if some folks try to deceive others and create different type of thought because they accumulated with huge amount it’s still not yet time to sell, what makes bitcoin investment grow is the consistency and time we put to make sure we make better profit but, aside profit a long term mindset is absolutely the best. Traders can’t hold their bitcoin for long without withdrawing profit and the surprising part is they don’t care if the investment will fall probably anyone making such move Should be ready to face lose, the idea 4years is just an example and if getting to 4 years anyone can still accumulate if they feel they’ve not gotten enough although the idea of a satisfied portfolio can’t be determined.
I guess they are not confusing people so that they can accumulate large number of bitcoin since for sure their money to use cannot do anything if you mean to manipulate the market even if they fool a lot of people. What usually happen is they mislead people maybe just to have fun with them. They misguide them towards wrong decision making that's why this should be corrected so that the person fooled by those people will learn on how to do good approach towards right investment with bitcoin.
its important to correct those wrong thoughts of people so they can get clear insights and good to have veterans like JJG since they provably know what is the right time span when they talk about long term investment and they will not get confused about the length on when they decide to sell. 4 years minimum should be done by lots of people since I think that year length to see good result with our investment.