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.
For those who can hold Bitcoin, holding Bitcoin for a long time will definitely benefit them. I think most of those who hold Bitcoin currently have the intention of making a profit from it. Yes, you said that Bitcoin is just for investment and holding it to make a profit? Although this may be partially or completely true because those who come to cryptocurrency must have the intention of gaining something from it, they must not have the intention of losing money and returning from it. Holding Bitcoin can certainly be good or bad. Those who have already experienced its positive results will certainly see it as good and those who have lost patience will certainly see holding it as negative. In the beginning, then when they see the pump at some point, they have no choice but to be disappointed. In the future, it is possible to do a lot of things with Bitcoin, but in some countries it has not yet been accepted as a legal currency, but I think it will be the currency of choice in the future instead of money.