That is exactly how it is suppose to be, holding for a long period of time before having a thought of selling but it appears that some people have made up their mind to buy and sell whenever there is a little profit and hoping to buy back when the price drop although it may look like a strategy for them but trust me it is not the best approach to Bitcoin investment and most of these people don't use what they can afford to let go that is why when they buy at a certain price they will have a target where they want the price to reach before they will sell and whenever this doesn't go as planned and they used what they can not afford to let, they will sell even in loss and this means that you are going backward instead of forward.
Those set of people that always have a mindset of selling their Bitcoin anytime when they see some little profits in Bitcoin I always consider that type of people as traders. To my understanding, they are not investors. If someone can't hold Bitcoin for certain years before thinking of selling, they are traders pretending to be investors, and this kind of people hardly make it from Bitcoin.
Having a mindset to sell when the price of Bitcoin rises and buying back when it falls this method has made some people lose more opportunities because the price of Bitcoin may not fall to the target they set.
As you said, the best approach to Bitcoin is investing in it, not trading it. In fact, trading exhausts much of people’s time, time which could be used for other hustles that could bring in more money to continue accumulating Bitcoin.
I agree with you that the real Bitcoin lovers are those who have knowledge about the nature and bright future of Bitcoin. So they do not want to waste it by trading. They spend whatever time they get in other professions and try to hold more Bitcoin with the money earned from there.
Those who sell when they make a small profit are not investors, they are short-term traders. If you want to invest in Bitcoin, you must have such a mentality that my invested money will last for a few years or centuries and I will survive here until the end. Basically, Bitcoin is for those who are patient, not for those who are in a hurry.
I hope most of the post we read here were not just aimed at deceit. Like how do we still think it's arguable if a person decides to sell his accumulation. 10 to 20 years is quite a big length of time. So it's already above a decade and it's a whole lot of patient driven holding. A trader spares no bitcoin if there's any small market rise. Someone who has held his accumulation for ten years can sell a part even though it doesn't mean he can't hold any longer.
We accumulate to sell later. Anyone who accumulates indefinitely may loose all investments if he eventually dies or looses his log in details. While accumulating, don't forget that life is not indefinite.