Quote from: adultcrypto on June 13, 2025, 05:21:54 PM

Please take a moment to get my point before you conclude. I know a lot of people judge a post by the topic alone and if that is applied to mine, I might be sounding anti-bitcoin since selling is highly demonized by a lot of people in this community.

Now the question is, assuming everyone who ever bough bitcoin is holding their bitcoin in their private wallets, what will be the fate of bitcoin and the bitcoin network? Does holding bitcoin strengthen the bitcoin network? If no, are those who sell and more their bitcoin on-chain generally doing bitcoin bad?

I believe in holding bitcoin and I'm actually holding some quantity and still buying. But a greater part of me feels that there should be more to bitcoin that just buying and holding in private wallet to gain some profits. I believe that bitcoin will be much more beautiful if a good number of human populations are using bitcoin for their daily lives and have real testimony that bitcoin actually made their lives better. We cannot achieve that if we only encourage people to buy and hold, can we?

I don't know if I have sounded so pessimistic towards bitcoin. From the depth of my heart, I want bitcoin to gain more utility than it has, the reason I made this post to seek opinion if there are people actually thinking in this direction or the right way of thinking about bitcoin is only HODL.

I have always been advocating against holding Bitcoin because if all we do is buy and hold Bitcoins, then how will Bitcoin grow? I believe that money has to be in circulation in order to develop the economy. If we regularly use Bitcoin for payments, then more and more stores and companies will accept Bitcoin payments, the more we see Bitcoin Accepted and this will help Bitcoin to grow but recently things have changed and I've changed my habits, now I promote Bitcoin holding because if you see, governments are starting to keep their reserves in Bitcoins, more and more companies follow MicroStrategy's plan. We shouldn't give our Bitcoins to governments and big corporations, we should hold them tight.