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.
If everyone thought like you, BTC's current position would be more active and stronger all over the world .
Bitcoin is not just a price chart and it is not just for holding to create assets but also for spending, earning, donating, paying and if we can do these things normally all the time then Bitcoin can become a true global currency .
None of us are against Bitcoin HOLDING . The future of Bitcoin depends on the "user experience", if we can buy goods with Bitcoin, send remittances, or live an unbanked life then this will be an effective, realistic step or attempt to make Bitcoin better. Satoshi's main purpose of creating Bitcoin was not just to hold Bitcoin but to use it as a currency, through which people can achieve true freedom and the main purpose of Bitcoin will be achieved .