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i got all my freelance work payment via bitcoin all these 3 years. spent very little. believed in bitcoin and was holding all these times. finally its going uppppp !!! who is holding like me since this long?

I'm holding some but I have also sold some. I'm not sure why it's going up so much. It could be a pump and dump or just panic buying. There's no way to know yet until we see a sell off.

Congratulation to you as now you are going to get the high profit of your savings, I am not holding that much as i use to use the bitcoin for my monthly expenses also but still i am holding some value of bitcoins my target is $800+ and i will start to sell my bitcoins slowly slowly.

you got big guts to hold for such a long time. i cant hold my bitcoins for that much long time. but i am feeling very sad that why i didnt saved my btc before for this coming halving. i m feeling jealous that you will get much high profit than me in this halving. btw how much btc are you holding ?

I also have a lot of bitcoin. before finally in May 2016 I sold 80% of bitcoin I have. because of my financial problems that are bad. I was disappointed why I was not patient enough to wait until now. prices too much and I was not lucky.

How many btc are you holding right now?  Can you tell us? Im only holding an amount of 0.04 all of it comes from my signature campaign.
Im gomna hold this for 5 more years.

32 In my Paper wallet and 12 in my Online wallet right now...  Not much but thats a lot for me as i'm only 21 :P

You are rich now starboyshuvo now, BTC keeps pumping with almost mo sell order, i wonder why is that keep pumping, its strange, almost everyday.

I wish I could get my freelance money btc.

Everyone wants to pay with Paypal, its sucks so much.

In my country Paypal Doesnt work so i always got my payment either thru PerfectMoney or BITCOINS !! Some People Pay me via Western union or Moneygram but i used to buy bitcoins with those money same day in local cyber cafe to grow my bitcoin.. 

Good for you. Now you can celebrate, its like wining a lottery!


we at http://toutrix.com/adserver pay hourly to webmasters who work with us. they receive btc hourly   ;D

I think that the time will be soon that you can make some profit with Bitcoin and that you have to know that people are holding it for a long time.
And the value is now going to be more worth so that is really nice and you can sell it soon with profit and that is nice.

This wallet of mine still has 0 outgoing transactions and plenty of incoming transactions after this one :)

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its the same feeling im getting of late 2013. when i used to wake up on each morning and i used to find bitcoin rising 100 to 200 then 100+ each day till 1200 !!!!!! i had only 0.12 Bitcoin that time... which i got payment on a 10$ work someone paid me! and it went up to 100$... from that time my btc journey started

Good for you that you have been able to manage to hold you Bitcoins for so long I think that I cannot be patient enough to hold them for so long. I like to sell in the mean time.

I've a few btc in a vault, but most of it is in constant moving. Trading and lending.
Let's hope for a new ATH in next month so i can sell a few and buy a bigger house  :P

That's really great of you. Its very hard to hold for such a long term, I have hold to a maximum of 6months time. Now you have got the reward for your such a long term holding with the ongoing price increase.

It is very hard to hold all the bitcoin you are paid unless you have other source of income. I have spend some to pay my mining bills.

3.3 years in Bitcoin and still holding, but also accumulating during dips.

Hopefully by the time I have to dip into my coins I won't have to sell any, just spend them.

hodling since 2011  8)

i was never seen any people such as you could did it and this is first time i see somebody could hold his bitcoin over than 2 years and i think with the current prices you already get benefit from your patience because i'm pretty sure you will got very much profit if you sell your bitcoin with the current prices

Been holding ever since $400 price zone.

But waiting till higher prices to reach to sell obviously, once it gets to $800ish zone I`m ready to sell small amounts cause I feel the price will go down after the sell off for most will do.

I have been holding for 2 years now. Waiting for the big break. After taking some hits, i am finally in the green.
Hoping my time and effort i spent on bitcoin, will finally pay of

Serious question: What did you do?

I still consider it as a short term honestly.. for some  people its long but more me a long term is around the 8 years or longer..
Its good that you are holding and I think you will make nice profits for sure!

The strength has continued to hold and show that it's not just some pump and dump as people like to claim here. The definition of a pump and dump is to commit fraud by encouraging investors to buy shares in a company in order to inflate the price artificially and sell what you bought cheap. Nothing about this rally is fraudulent, it's simply because the supply of selling coins from miners will be cut in half.

@OP, Stay strong, Bruddah. I'm with you. Just gonna keep hodling. I'm not even worried about whatever this upcoming halving will bring at this point. I'm just going to keep accumulating whatever I can within my means with the 2020 halving and beyond already in my mind.

Bitcoin is like a cash cow that pays off all those holders who have held it from the start. And it's good to see that you're actually getting paid in bitcoin for your freelance work.

I'm holding as well, and I'm enjoying the price rises.

you are a genius sir and also you have great patience...good luck

congratulation, my earning in 2,5year arround 20BTC maybe more than it if i not invest at f*cking cloudmining, if im not lost at trading, if my wallet not get hacked.

now i have only 0.27 hope i can earn more and holding like you.

i haven't been holding as long as you are but it is still long time for me, i think it is about a year and a half that i have received my first bitcoin and ever since i have been believing in bitcoin and its future and i have been holding bitcoin without blinking of an eye.

Nice! Never heard of a guy who have worked for their coins and still held it instead of paying rent or their living expenses with the coin. And you must really be enjoying this halving hype so far :P

I congratulate you on your success.

The price will go down after halving. So if you have saved till now , keep your bitcoins save for another one month and you will get a lots of profits.I  ,myself is not selling now even if the price reaches 1000$ now, as i know it will increase more at halving.

Why would the price go down after halving?
Don't you know that after halving there will be less coins generated so price is more likely to go up...

It's not worth the time for me. Holding for 1 year or more with no possibility of withdrawing the profit is as good as having no money. I invest in stock market too where we need to hold our shares for years but I also earn an interest for the same and get bonus shares. There's no possibility like this in bitcoins unless you risk your coins by lending. If you check, even currencies have gone up since 2.5 years.

How is there "no possibility of withdrawing the profit" from bitcoin ???
You can withdraw your profits from bitcoin any time you want.

Also, I am using euros and here is price of 1 euro in dollars for last 2 years. Bitcoin was better choice for sure.

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so you are rich guy who have bitcoin on 2011 till now ?? ,

Bought when it was around 20USD. Still Holding but i spent some buying pizza in the past when it was around 200USD.

i started with holding in 2014, but the number of coins i had back then was not that much. i used the sub $300 prices in 2015 to buy myself plenty of coins in order to increase my position in bitcoin. and as you see it pays off nicely.

I'm talking about profit in terms of bitcoins and not in terms of USD/EUR. Bitcoin price increases and not the amount of bitcoins unlike shares where you get bonus shares if you hold for a long time.

Oh, ok.
But that sames goes for all physical investments (gold, silver, oil etc.)
And if you invest in currencies like usd/eur they don't get bonus shares either.

Also I don't see why it is so big deal if the investment doesn't get bigger, if the value still gets bigger.

Scenario 1: invest 10 "units" and after 1 year hold you have 11 units and 5% total profit
Scenario 2: invest 10 "units" and after 1 year hold you have 10 units and 5% total profit.

Why is scenario 1 better?

long term holding is always a good idea which is very profitable but it is best if you can buy at the bottom as much as you can and then hold it not buying at the top and then holding. because the maximum profit can only be gained if you buy at the very bottom and your mind will be at ease too.

I too started holding my coins since 2014 and could only manage to hold 40% of my earned coins which amounted to 0.4 BTC. Unfortunately, I sold them in November 2015 and now I'm regretting as the price is almost double now. I'm still happy as bitcoins always make users go in profit and we shouldn't fear buying it at even the current price.

In case of BTC, if I have 0.1 BTC now and keep holding it for next 10 years also, I'll have 0.1 BTC only and the price would change in terms of USD. While in scenario 1 as you described it, I can atleast think about selling that 1 extra share and keep holding 10 shares at 5% profit and plus I get paid a yearly bonus as well. With BTC, it's not possible as you earn no interest by holding the coins for any amount of years. You need to trade them and hence I believe in trading rather than holding.

I bought my coins in 2015 and haven't sold any one yet. I hope to see the price go higher before i decide to sell.
At this moment it seems stupid to sell and hope to buy back cheaper.

Yeah, I think that is smart. When the price goes too high obviously you would want some sort of security and therefore sell some of your bitcoins. However, I'd buy as soon as the market crashes.

Holding is one of the best things I've ever done in my life :P

you are not alone, i have been doing the same thing for the past two years or so. i have been earning bitcoin through services and trading and have been holding 90%+ of the earning and also i have bought some bitcoin last year that price was at its lowest amount and have been holding that too. and i will continue doing this until bitcoin price is over $5000

Nice work man!! It is really hard to hold for long time because everyone not have enough money for invest for longtime but you are not one of them you just save from your everyday earnings and expenses. You just wait for your jackpot. Now you got your jackpot. Best of luck for your bitcoins. :)

Congratulations! It's not easy to work 3 years, and most of earned money to put on a side. Your moment came, and I always feel glad and happy when I hear some positive story about people who earned nice money with btc.
I hope you will stay in btc community, and those coins you have use to buy something. Or invest, anything to make btc grow even more,  show to people how you earned your coins, show them that you can spent coins on more ways and when people see that its gonna be easier for them to join and believe in btc.

Appreciate your patience of holding it this long, as I have not held them with me for such a long time, but saving small pieces with which I can make large amounts.

It could go down after halving if there are many panic sellers and less buyers. Buyers may not buy coins feeling that the price is too high as they are currently fearing as well. I just hope what you've said about the number of coins being less makes the price atleast remain stable as we would soon see a drop then after halving.

After halving there will be 54 000 less coins generated every month. That is over 40 million dollars. Every month. That will leave room for some panic sell too ;)
If someone would buy bitcoins with 19 million dollars right now (from bitfinex), price would go up to 1000$ per coin.

Now your saving will save you, you are young to have such a good profit and will now sitting on a fortune. It really pays you off.  Either buy what you want or make a good small business it's up to you though.

small business with 44 bitcoin , why not making bigger business. or maybe you can buy your own house

Holding is just now the best thing that you can do and that is because you have to know that the value will rise now for a long time and that is perfect for people who already have Bitcoin because they waited a long time for it.
But you have to know that you are not for sure what will happen in the future and that is the risky thing of Bitcoin.

How many bitcoins did you hold? 1 BTC was worth $340-$1000 in 2014 and hence you did it right to hold.

Jan 2014   $750 – $1000
Feb 2014   $550 – $750
Mar 2014   $450 – $700
Apr 2014   $340 – $530

However, if you got those coins when the price was $750 or more, you would need to wait longer to sell them as the price now is around $780 and it's not worth to earn only $30 profit for holding it for so many years.

If he continues to hold the bitcoin for the next 10 years, he will make a profit of $10,000 each bitcoin easily.

Lol you are the kind of peole i hate because how can you hold yuour coins just for 2.5 year and dont do anything with it this is why i hate that people what if we all hold your price wont incereease.

If everyone would hold price would be a lot higher than it is now.
Because holding does not exclude buying.

These people i hate the most becausse why should we all not save bitcoins becasue the price wont change anything if we all hodl the bitcoins so you are proud of it wouww....

Good for you that you have been able to hold on to your Bitcoin for such a long time, I would not be able to do that. If you have been holding for so long then I am sure that you will be able to make a huge profit right now if you sold.

That is a good thing for you to hold on to your Bitcoins for such a long time, most people would have sold there coins a long time ago.
The number one thing with Bitcoin is that if you really want to make money that you will have to wait a long time and be patient.

Yes the man with the power to have patience do get success for sure. As talking about myself, I was into bitcoin since
2013 and collecting little and little each year and up to now holding all my bitcoins.

I started mining seriously since early 2011 and 20% of the coins I've mined have gone to savings. Although I blown through the remaining 80% (mining equipment, speculation, bad investments, scams, cash out to fiat, etc.) , some of the coins in my savings addresses are over  5 years old. I was lucky in that I went through 2 phases of highly profitable mining - 1) early GPU mining, and 2) batch 1 Avalon ASICs.

Awesome, starboy.  I have had mixed feelings for years about bitcoin, and it's only been in the last 9 months or so that I've seen its strengths.  I've bought and sold--stupidly--a little here and there, and I haven't accumulated much.  Still working on it.  It's great that you got paid in bitcoin.  I'm definitely not in a field where that could happen anytime soon.

That is already a long time to hold your coins for I believe that you have bought for a very low price so you can sell some coins right now for a profit.
You can also hold on for a longer time if you want to make some more money. 

I have to say that you are very patient if you hold them for all these years, and i am sure that you did good work as price now is very large

and no i don't hold them for that long, i hold them for like year only becausr first time i saw bitcoins like only 1.5 years ago, that's why

I have been holding bitcoin for over 3 years. I have not sold any bitcoins. I just bought computers with it.

Well, I was impatient, so I have started selling my bitcoin when its price rises to $ 400, then I need the money to develop some business. so I exchange it, but now I am back again to hold bitcoin, because there is a possibility this year bitcoin price will be $ 1,000. you hold your bitcoin in a long time, maybe if you hold on a little longer, you could sell it at the price of $ 1,000

I admire your decision to decide investing it for long-term as it means that you trust bitcoin that it will be successful someday. And here you are, happy with the decision you made. I wish I knew bitcoin on it's early days.

it was long enough and eventually you get the right moment to sell.

I could do the same thing as you, when I had a job and was busy with my job.

I was never able to hold on to my coins for that long because I was to greedy when it came to making money. Every time that I could make a profit I sold.
I am going to try to hold on to my coins for a longer time because then I will be able to make more money.

I've been hodling since late 2012, after bitcoin crashed. It was all over the news, and everyone was flocking away from it, so naturally I flocked towards it. :)

No, I sold way too early not expecting the Bull mania to get so crazy, so soon.
Some of the memories from 2011 are "worth a fortune" to me:
Money isn't the only important thing in life...

I bought some bitcoin a few years ago. The price was significantly lower than the current ones, I am still holding.

I am conducting the same strategy.
Buy low... hold
Wait
But more... hold

This way i hope to gather around 40 bitcoin when we will see the real price of bitcoin, and i get a good pension life.

I am really jealous of you outatime1 :) If only I could have saved my bitcoins more than I could, I would do that but it was really a good lesson for me. I am now growing it tightly and steady and hold until I can hold on. I now see the value of bitcoin as gold treasure - I feel so much love to bitcoin.

you....  lucky soros... i tried badly to get into batch 1, ended up in a group buy of batch 3. which never shipped. got my btc back, though. batch 1 were money printing machines.

Well people don't know future so there's a reason why you sold it and no one will blame you in that way. We all have different perspective towards bitcoin before.

You are lucky because you don't need to exchange in real cash!
but even nice choice!
So holding it's the best choice, like a bet that start from 1000 to 1.01 there are 999.99 points when you can sell ;)
So where is the point 1.01? I think there is a lot distance from this day and we can hold without doubts ;)

That is good for you that you were able to hold on to your coins for that long I do not think that I can do the same thing. When I see that I can make a profit I sell right away which is not good.
With Bitcoin you will have to be patient because in the end it is going to pay off but it is just so hard.

Well, that sounds pretty good, especially if you already have a lot of bitcoin in your wallet. it can make a profit in large numbers. I advise to sell it when the price of bitcoin has gone up to $ 1000, because at that time, I think the price of bitcoin becomes unstable, because it will be very many people who sell their bitcoin.

I also hold my bitcoin for more than a year. I do not see any other investments are better than the bitcoin.

I think you should hope the price will drop more so that you can buy more. That is my hope any way.

I'm loving how everybody in this topic is congratulating this miracle of nature who...





Wow , in nov 2015 you're 18 y.o and in  june 2016 you're 21?

I do not know if the price will rise next week or next months, but I am pretty sure the price will rise in years.

I just think it is a long time. I applaud what you're doing. not everyone can hold their bitcoin within a few months, even more years. may hold a little longer to make aware to sell bitcoin. maybe you should target the price at which you can sell bitcoin what you have. maybe $ 800 is a pretty good number for selling bitcoin, but it all depends on you

If you want to hold the bitcoin for years, $800 or below is a good price to buy. The price will rise in the future.

Yeah getting bitcoins and holding them is more then doing investments as it has such power of wealth to make each bitcoiners rich and richer if only if he or she have a good enough patience :)

I like the cut off your gib son
Keep up the good work
I have been in since btc were  $3 and I am still expanding my btc holdings which are fairly substantial by now....
Don't believe any panic or fud, it's just leeches trying to separate you from your coins.... ;)

It is good that your were in bitcoin before 2012. Some of us are in the crypto currency when the Ethereum was $3.

All those people who do not need much money or who have already some money or income for their expenditure, do not need to spend their bitcoins or to convert them to fiat, so it is not hard for them to hold them for years, as there is no any lose or risk in holding bitcoins for longer.

i have been holding bitcoin for more than 2 years also. but i also have been accumulating and spending bitcoin at the same time too. and i can't imagine just putting my time and money into bitcoin and never getting anything out of it.
i prefer to get something out even if it is a very small amount.

Now after this halving the user who have been holding long for such a long term might have sold their bitcoin to earn the profit. In my opinion one can go for holding of short term rather than such a long term holding.

I am sure that you are able to make some money because if you are holding for that long you must have bought your Bitcoins for a cheap price.
If you have hold on for that long I am sure that you are going to hold on to them for even a longer time.

That's right! Because bitcoin is deflating and it will not be denied. Bitcoin's limited supply is the reason why bitcoin will surely have it's price increased in a matter of time.

That part should come right now, because miners only get 12.5 bitcoin so in a matter of a few months/year i do expect that the price increase because the supply is limited quite a lot.
But there are never any guarantees..

I think the price will rise a lot after the halving. Last halving, it rose 100 times, this time, it could rise 20 times.

Holding is the way to go. The price right now is by far not worth to sell it. Just give it a few years.
By then you will get the real value of bitcoin and selling or using then is better.

If you have enough patience and dedication to keep holding your coins for several years, then definitely go for it! But it's not as easy as it may seem. Plenty of people get very tempted to sell their coins once they see the price has gone up and they made around 20-30% profit. Solid holders can keep holding even when they doubled their money.

Holding is easy, it is like making your money as an item that you don't want to sell. That's all it takes and your bitcoin may value three times higher than what we see today.

Holding is not so easy. When the price rise 60% in one week, many people will be very enticed to sell.

Great story, I'm not one of the early adopters like some Legendary here in forum that hold bitcoin since 2011 when the block reward was 50BTC, at the beginning I bought and earned bitcoin but spend after a slightly increase.

I think many people sold at the price of $750 and they must be feeling lucky as price dropped suddenly after then and rest who were holding would be definitely disappointed for not selling at that time.

This crypto economy is still so volatile and unpredictable that I have preferred to store only a few proportion of my earned coins because no one can foresee with full accuracy the future of these altcoins. Fortunately I have been very responsible spending my coins in profitable investments that have also greatly increased my money, even in a larger proportion that the simple storing was given me.

well i didnt sold at that time and i was a bit sad about that to be honest, 2.5 years is not that long, in my opinion it is worth holding bitcoins for like 10 years

Sitting it for 2.5 years is really hard to do for me. I could have used my money elsewhere and not just let it sit for 2.5 years. If I have the chance i could invest it to a project like ETH during that time and ETH is pretty cheaper 2 years ago. for 1 btc you could have about 1000+ ETH.

I still hold my bitcoins from  $3 upwards....

If you bought $3,000 worth of bitcoin, you will be a dollar million in a few months. So it is good to hold.

As long as there is no big bug in the bitcoin technology or the developers develop it properly, the price will rise.

The kicker is you only bought 0.5 of them =p

Ive been holding for over a year now and will continue to for the forsseable future, The last few shakeouts we had last year i just stopped checking up on prices and even bought in some more so now im just holding dtrong to see where it takes us in the years to come.


Hind sights a great thing though, had everyone known eth was going to go up such amounts then everyone on the forums would have sunk thier life savings into it.

That is right. A Chinese company completed a purchase of 416,000 ETH, the native token on the Ethereum blockchain, in an total investment of $500,000 in September last year.

well that is nice for you that holded them for long time like 2.5 years and since now price rises, i am sure that if you will keep them for few more weeks and then sell them, you will earn a lot

What is ATH? Is that a hash rate or something to do with mining perhaps?
To be able to buy a house with what you accumulated. I would like to know what you are doing which sites you go to for you to have that much in bitcoin in such a short amount of time. 2.5 years is not along time when it comes to investing. :)

keep them for a few more weeks? you mean a few more years, right? because there is not much upwards potential that will lift the price much higher from the current price in the coming weeks.

oh wow, that is insane, you must have made a lot of good profit out of that, in my opinion it is good to hold it even more in order to make even bigger money in the future

The ATH is the all time high. And it was established in 2013 when the price spiked to 1300.
Today everybody is waiting for this price to be achieved, although we are just at 50% of that.

I agree with you idea, I will say that if a person has patient and can hold his/her money in their wallet for longer time then they should have to hold as the image of bitcoin in the world business is going more better and its price will increase much faster.

That's a better option to hold long and earn good profit. At the same another important factor is that the price might vary in the forward or backward anytime. So to keep yourself on the safe side, its better to hold for limited time period than such a long holding and make decisions of buying and selling based on the price movement.

Ah ok.. thanks for that explanation. Never would of thought of that acronym that way and thought it might be referring to something in a technical aspect. And all this time I thought the all time high was 1200 in 2013. That got me on the correct path now. :)

No i don't do that, i most sell all my earning from bitcoin because i need money for my life but now after the price keep rising i try to save a little bit from my earning maybe 5 year again can have 1 bitcoin.

It would be better if you can use the bitcoin instead of selling it. But it depends on the usability of bitcoin in your country.

it is a long period of time. I hope you can survive and make a profit. for me save bitcoin for 2.5 years is quite difficult behavior. I need to have extra patience to do so.

Its good that you are holding them for such a long time....u have good patience ...but i never able to hold them...most of them i lost in gambling

Yeah majority of users will lack patience to hold it for such a long time and they will sell their coins when they are able to make some profits from it.

if you have some patience, hold your bitcoin and make it double or triple it's value in less than a year, i already experienced that, when i started to have bitcoin it is just more than 200 dollars, in less than a year, it's already 600+ dollars. it is rising and no one can stop that.

I hold the bitcoin since the price of $50. I did not sell any. I just use that to buy some Etherem a few months ago.

Nice that you have been holding on to your coins for so long I am not sure if am going to be able to do that because that is a really long time.
With Bitcoin you will have to be patient and that is the thing that many people lack.

That is at least 3 years. 10 times rise in 3 years is not a bad return for the investment. The price might rise further.

great. i came to know about bitcoin when it was 120$

The day of the halving (July 9th) was exactly 2 years since I first bought a Bitcoin. Price was around $550. Continued buying my way down until $200 and it's been over a year since I last bought. I'm a long term holder and very bullish.

Glad that during current price I'm finally green  ;D

I think that it is pretty impressive of him to be able to hold his Bitcoin for that long of a time I do not think that I can do that.
When ever I can make a profit I most of the time sell some Bitcoin.

If you are able to hold for a longer time then you can make a huge profit with them so I suggest that you hold them for a bit longer.
I think that I am also going to hold for a long time to make money.

That is what I did not past three years. I bought the bitcoin when there was a price dip and then spent some.

holding bitcoin for this long time is so much harder because 2.5 years ago bitcoin price was at the current level and maybe a little bit more even and i really can't imagine holding bitcoin even when price goes down. that much from $880 (Jan 2014) down to $200 (Jan 2015) is such a hard task.

yeah when it went down to 180$ i was really sad but was still collecting bitcoins because i had confidence that it will rise again... i just want to see 1k again.

I will hold for 10+ years because I don't have deep regrets of selling too early. Ideally, we will reach a point where we don't even need to sell because Bitcoin is simply too valuable and the government currency is not as trusted as Bitcoin.

i will also hold few for many years..

We are talking years yes. I don't expect anything big for at least 1 year. And my selling price is no less then 1.5k.
So yeah probably a few years.

I think the bitcoin price can reach $1500 by the end of 2017. But it is still better not to sell at that price.

If you think the bitcoin price will rise in the long run, it is better to buy some now and hold for the long term.

Why not sell at $1500? I think it'll be good for the market, but I don't think we'll reach it by 2017. Maybe in 2020.

im holding mine before halving. but spend it now. and im happy about it. because my btc for 500$. i think the most important part is you enjoy the item that you buy using your bitcoins :)

That is good to spend the bitcoin. If you pay with bitcoin, that will increase the circulation and help the price.

Many people want to use the bitcoin, but the transaction confirmation time is too slow at the moment. They are using the Ethereum now.

There are times that the level of confirmations are slow but there are ways to get with this - we can pay higher amount of transaction fees and the process is very fast. For me, it is alright to wait for confirmation and benefit from all of bitcoin's features than fiat money transactions that has many government regulations.

holding bitcoin for a long time is really a wise decision because long term investment is a good investment and it can give you a good profit. therefore to me 2.5 years of bitcoin investment is a good investment and hope that it will really give you a good profit at the end.

That is a very long time to hold for and not have the urge to spend it.. bearish in a way if you ask me. ;D

Care to say how much you have come to collect in that time of doing that freelance work?
It would give an idea of how much to expect if one were to do this if they had enough will power too. :)

Surely it will. Slow and long term investment, wins the race. Of course, we can get a few profit doing day trading by buying and selling coins in a short period of time but we can get much profit if we go for a long term. This way, we are also not gets very stressful because we just let our bitcoin stays in our wallet no matter what the price is compared to day trading where you will always get stressed with the volatility of price.

The people who are holding bitcoins i hate the most because what if everybody who are buying bitcoins in a early statement are holding their coins the price wont rise allot.

Nice that you are able to hold on to your Bitcoin for that long because I never manage to be able to hold them for such a time.
I am going to try it again without selling them even if I can make a profit.

I also think that I am going to hold on to my Bitcoin for a longer time because every time that the price goes up again I end up selling.
It is hard to hold on to them for such a long time but I will try it.

Holders do contribute to a price increase. Think what would happen if one of the early investors decided to offload his stake in one of the exchanges.
Of course, if they spent their coins, it would result in an increase in bitcoin adoption.

Honestly i can wait for that its very long time for me so i decided to use my bitcoin to increase the amount of my bitcoins.
Im satisfied right now what i am earnings than buy and sell bitcoins but its still doing it as of now because it increasing my revenue..

Now only very few believe that long time holding is profitable. Holding is the best option if one doesn't wish to take risk. Also the earning will be very low compared to most other methods.

I feel the people who are holding are the few.

Most of us are here for short term profits which is why most people try acquire bitcoin in other forms of being free or to get it for cheaper then the market value.

So the ones who are holding have their methods of making for them to hold just remember that.

holding bitcoin for a long time is a good decision because there is always a very low risk of losing your money, if you are holding bitcoin for a long time then you will not be caring for a little ups or down and will remain confident, and will surely get a good profit in the end. therefore i always prefer long term  investment.

I have also tried to hold on to my Bitcoin for that long but every time that I can make a profit I sell some Bitcoin.
Saving is pretty hard but I will try harder next time I buy Bitcoin.

I've been HODLING for around 2.5 years also. I was buying regularly until about a year ago, haven't bought since though. I've never sold any, I plan to HODL for a good 5+ years & just see what happens.

As much as I want to hold my earnings from signature campaign, I was oblige to spend almost all of it.  I am kind of envious with you cause it is like you do not need to work hard for it.  I mean it is not your only source of income since you are able to keep it all. 

That is a pretty long time if you are asking me and I think that is pretty good if you hold your bitcoins so long, on the other hand I think I already had sold mine.
Its hard to keep your bitcoins when the selling price is profitable, I already had this once but not sold them back in the days.

I'm also holding my bitcoins but not for long time like you, only hold it for 1-6 months. Holding your bitcoin until 3 years is really sick though, but you can earn profit right now.

same thing i'm also holding it for a long tim, in my case it's more like the OP, it's been the end of 2014 since i'm holding my 10 btc, those were bitcoin made with mining and i'm proud of their value now, i just hope we can return to the last ATH

you really do hold a strong, but now is not the right time to sell. you have to keep a strong hold until the price is really high, at least $2k or even $5k.
I do not have a job, so it's hard to do that and rather earn profits every day.

If OP bought and hold for 2.5 years means he could sell it now itself because if you see the price rate from that time to now means this is also best to sell for him.

Nice job OP! Holding is difficult through all of the ups and downs.  So hard to predict what to do.  That is why I just hold.

Holding also two years and made nice profit from it and other people were laughing at me back then saying the golden oppurtunity has past.
But theres still lots of chance that it will reach high amounts even higher then the 620 now. Hoping to hit the 1k in 17!

That is a pretty long time to be honest, I even think its pretty sick that you are already holding your bitcoins so long.
Its pretty you are and I also think it will pay off.

You are doing a good job just holding on to your bitcoins. I wish I had the patience to do that as well. I have only been holding bitcoin since April and sometimes I already get tempted to sell some.

that is what i call awesome commitment! it will pay off in the very end just hold it for longer even though i know it is tempting to sell when prices are profitable you should just keep on holding them for longer my selling point would be 800 or maybe even 1k but nothing below 800 cause for sure it will reach that amount before dieing out.

your holding for a long time. i also do this but not for 2.5 years yet but maybe a year. its very tempting everytime it rises to sell but i keep telling myself that i will get a bigger payoff by just holding.
So right now my plan is to hold for even much longer atleast im already earning more than the interest rate of the bank!

Holding the bitcoin for such a long time is pretty cool but I also think its bad honestly due to the fact you on a certain point have to sell your bitcoins for some nice profits.
I think that would be better honestly but maybe this is also a smart move, who will say.

yes i am also in favour of long term investment, it is really good to hold bitcoin fro more than 3 year, through this you are minimizing your risk of loosing money, in long term investment we do not care for the little dumps or ups, and it cannot compel for panic selling.

The most people are now holding their coin and that is because the value of Bitcoin is going to be higher now so it will be smart if they are holding a little longer.
And that is important because you have to sell it on the right moment so you can earn profit.

The thing is that if you hold for the short term, bitcoin can be very stressfull because of it's volatiliy. And i honestly would rather invest in something less risky. But since we can hold bitcoin for a longer period, there is a less risk, because i believe even the buyers at 1200 usd back in 2013 will some day get ROI, on their investment.

All they need to do is being patient and hold.

These are the people who i hate the most peopel who are just holding bitcoins for nothing because they dont make money with it and they crash the price of the bitcoin the best!

What you are saying is not right, some people hold it it indeed but they are not spending it due to the fact that they use it a as a investment.
Soon or later they will sell without any doubts so I think it would not be bad, the bitcoin price will not crash because of this..

i agree to this. There is no wrong for people to hold their bitcoins. It is just like keeping the treasure and once the price is right in the near future, it will be open and sell on high profits. of course, not all of the people with bitcoins are just holding it, there are also a percentage that spends and use it in trading and other related to investment stuff..

How can you say that this is the reason of the price crash for bitcoin, is he holding the major portion of bitcoin in his wallet that if he dont trade the bitcoin price will crash, without knowing that how the trading and the price fluctuation is working you are posting some thing which is not related to topic, This is happening due to you want your campaign post to be reached.

Bitcoin is a investment like gold, peoples are investing for the high price or when ever they are in need, I think OP is well enough that he is earning from his daily work that he dont want to use his bitcoin and he is just investing it.

without people holding, the price would probably not even be higher than $200 as the market would be flooded with circulating coins. those who keep holding contribute towards this price. so show a bit more respect.

Big balls man I wouldn't be able to do that cause I sell them anytime they rise but in those 2.5 years alot has happened and I am surprised you still have them all.
I can't judge you but I wouldn't do the same I would've cashed out when they were 750+ and buy them again low because why not? thats missed chance buddy.

Good to know that you are holding your coins for last 2.5 years. You must have bought the bitcoins at that time for 100$  - 150$ and today if you sell them you can get 4x to 5x profit.

Can't hold bitcoin that long i don't have enough patience to do that waiting till the bitcoin price increase is not possible but there are chance that it will dump again and i think he gain lots of profit already brought bitcoin when bitciin is very cheap and it can afford by anyone else. If there are chance that bitcoin will be cheap again i dont hestitate to buy more and im going to hold too that long till it increase again

Wow you hold bitcoin very long at all and it was full of risks. I myself do not dare hold bitcoin for it because of fear that if the price to drop. But prices are now rising very high bitcoin 3 years ago that you had a profit very much.

That is your opinion, hold the bitcoin always give us profit, now again the time start to going the bitcoin up, so why he sell his all bitcoins? he is lucky because he buy the bitcoin in a cheap price, and now bitcoin never and ever come back in that price. So i suggest him, hold them till you never think that you need money mustly,

you're right,selling without thinking twice is definitely not a wise choice,as I see there's still many possibility that bitcoins price could be rising even higher,even there's dump he won't losing money since the price of bitcoin just higher than when he's buying so definitely no problem to wait till it reach lets say 800$

I think nobody can or have holded bitcoin this long, as even with 10$ dump people feel scared and sell their bitcoin in panic. Hats off man you are true supporter of bitcoin.

I wonder if you learned something from this experience? It is not too late.


Two and a half year is really nothing, even in the Bitcoin world. It is in production since the 3rd of January 2009 (!). Don't watch the graphs all day and think about the long term potential: then decide whether to buy or sell.

It's a good thing if people can have this patience when holding their bitcoins. I have done the same thing with my other investments. For one, I have an investment that I started five years ago, and still holding on to it. There' s also this company related investment that I'm part of for the almost two years. With bitcoin, I still have a long way to go since I only started this year. But I try to take it slowly and conservatively. If it turns out to be a good investment, then I am going to continue buying and earning, and holding.

It really depends  on us on when we would sell our bitcoin because  for sure anyone of us had the  amount targeted   to sell our bitcoin either  on high profit or  small profit as long we are profited on those selling. No one would  sell  bitcoin on cheaper price and  make  him negative profit.

Holding bitcoin that long is a really ballsy move but it shows you really have faith in the bitcoin for it to go up very high else you would've gotten rid of it when it was at ATH.
I'm going to be honest I would've sold it when it was 1k+ but who knows maybe this will make you rich.

If the bitcoin market price goes above $1k it is good to sell all your coins and buy back when the price drops.

that really depends.

There's a good chance the price would not stop rising at 1k this time.

I will know approximately when the top is in when it happens, and I will try to profit from it too, but it's to early to call a specific number now.

Even after I sell at or near the peak, I will buy back as soon as the price drops. Price drops always happen after a sudden price increase.

It might be a little bit better to still wait cause prices are highly volatile at the moment so it's highly possible for it to go down alot.
If you see it starting to go up then buy it and keep it and wait for it to be at it's max for that time being.

you have to be stable when you decide to make an investment.

that means you make a decision to hold bitcoin to a certain price up and to a certain price down and you should stick with it and never get out of line to do a different thing instead of it.

and this is called a true trading strategy not balls.

I've been holding my coins for a long time now. When the price surged above 600 dollar i have to say i wast tempted to sell and buy back lower.
However that would have been risky since there is no guarantee the price would go down again.

I held bitcoin on the way to $1200 and sold, then rebought at $300. Sold at $790. I again just rebought at $550. It's been a great couple of years.

That's what I call long run, you need to keep them a bit longer to make batter profit. Bitcoin will rise, and if you have more patience, price will increase and profit will be higher.
I don't hold my coins, I'm earning, gambling and withdrawing when I'm in a need for cash. I'm not in situation to save money or coins for such long period.

perform a holding period of 2.5 years was extraordinary action. we have to be patient with all his strength in order to benefit in the future. you must have a large capital to do that.

Yup it is good to see some one holding for these much years and I think might seem millionaire or something. Most of the people's cases we are in need of money and we just exchange it always but he didn't do that. However it's a good go.

if you buy bitcoin 2,5 year later
and holding 2,5 year latter, this mean your buy bitcoin 2013 - 2014
i think this now your still lost because price in 2013 bitcoin price 1000 dollar every one bitcoin

I started buying in January or February 2014 around 600 a coin, and kept doing so until March 2016. Never sold any of them, and I'm up well over 200 bucks a coin.

Another case in point that if you just have patience, wait, and keep emotion out of it you'll do well in the long run.

That's probably why he's still holding right now to be honest, and it doesn't surprise me that he would still be holding at this point if he bought in around $1k, even $700.

For sure he would hold it as long it reaches the $1k price because he would lost for sure some % of his investments but in year 2013-2014 it's not on a 1k price maybe he bought on lower price. Most of us would sure hold our coin and wait for the right time to sell to make profits.

I'm just only a newbie here but I think you did a great decision of holding your bitcoin and wait until it hits high. Having patience on something is good, like what you did cause it's really hard if you're selling or spending your btc this past few years and in just a blink of an eye it hits $1500 or something more higher for sure you'll gonna regret it which is not the thing you don't want to happen right?

I think you are a patient person, not everyone can survive that long. most people will panic when bitcoin prices rise or fall, as most of us would soon sell bitcoin we have. if you were able to survive until bitcoin price reaches $ 1000, I think it would make a profit. need great confidence that you could survive like that

I have invested bitcoin since 2013, 3 years, and I still love bitcoin. I am a bitcoin holder. I will keep bitcoin for my son and daughter.

im too late, i have barround 5bitcoin at 2015 and i sell it all my bitcoin, some for buying altcoin then lose, some get hacked and some for fun.
now im in progres to collecting bitcoin again. hope this month i can reach 2btc :)

It's a common thing that people have in mind that the longer you hold your coins, the more value they will gain throughout the years. This potential is what makes people hold their coins for such a long period of time. That being said, not many people can actually hold their coins for such a long time. Only the most dedicated holders can do it. You need to resist selling to secure profits. If you can do that without problems, then you'll do very well.

I am sure that you are already able to make money with those Bitcoin but I bet that you are going to hold on to them for a longer period of time.
I maybe am also going to this but it is hard to hold on to them for such a long time.

I find it hard to believe that the price at some day will not surge all way to the roof. But until that day comes we, as normal supporters can only earn with bitcoin by holding our precious coins and most importantly be patient. Whether a there is a large dump or pump.

Just don't get tempted to sell all of your coins. In a few years the price will be higher if everythings turn out to be working well.

Unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in selling. A bunch of money sitting in your checking account doesn't do any good. The people who feel compelled to sell are most likely over invested. I was for a little while and really had to fight the urge to sell. Just don't over invest and you'll feel much more relaxed and won't fret over temporary pumps and dumps.

I prefer to hold my coins for a rainy day. The thing is that at the moment the price is not even close to a price where I feel confident to sell. So holding may be the only option. Because every time i need something and I can pay in bitcoin, i make sure to buy bitcoins with fiat and buy the time.

it's not really that people are over investing, but more like people using money to buy bitcoin with that they badly need in their personal life. that's why certain people panic sell, or get too tempted to sell when they have made a profit. other than that, it's always good to secure profits from time to time. that allows you to buy back your coins at lower prices when the price goes down.

That is not quit allong time but what i do know is that you can make allot of moneyt with bitcoins in 2.5 years but by just holding them wont make any profit maybe a little bit after rissings but for sure just hold nah nothing interesting happens.

I really wonder what is the average age or investment experience of the Bitcoin population. Is it all just gambling for a quick buck? 2.5 years is very short term 'investing', it is nothing compared to stocks / bonds / pension funds etc.

Buy bitcoin (or any investment really, diversify) and forget about it till the date you want to retire. Then start spending 4% per year and you will have a financial perpetuem mobile.

wow, good advice there. That is preferable than just saving to banks. With bitcoins, you can either hold in your local wallet or invest it to some good altcoins and forget it until you reach your desired price goal and cashout. Investing for a short period of time oftentimes gives much stress and disappointment due to volatility unless you know what you are doing.

The reason I've been holding for "only" 2.5 years is because the first bitcoin I bought was 2.5 years ago - can't fast forward 10 or 20 years  :-\

I understand your point that bank can give some amount of interest value to us but that is not in bitcoin. If have some of your money with you put thst into to buy 5 bitcoins and hold for some long and If you see the price after 2 years I am sure price will be double on that time.

I bought 1 BTC for US$640 in June of 2014.

I'm still HODLing.

Like a stupid idiot.

Welcome to my club.

2.5 years is a long time and if you not sold a penny in that time its just stupid, I think that you should have sold it all ready to be honest.
its stupid if you have not done this..

Good that you have been able to hold on to your Bitcoin for that I long, I am sure that you can even make a profit right now if you sold.
But yeah it is better to wait for the price to rise even more so that you can make more money.

You cant say stupid  since people are different, you could assume that he spend  somehow his coins in 2.5 years time  but  as he states he didnt even spend a single coins but we have the same thinking  2 years is soo long  and  for my  situation i would definitely get some of those coins to be spent.

If you hold bitcoin for 3 years now you definitely get a very big advantage. Because the price of bitcoin in the past three years no more than this year and you definitely get bitcoin very much. It was a a very good profit, congratulations.

For those who are already have a bitcoin yeah its a good thing but how about this newly in bitcoin.. just like we i am just know bitcoins since 1 year..  and expecting more again for bitcoin that the price will increase more.. and i hope it will happen to new holders of bitcoin that we will success to hold bitcoin a lot and the price will increase a lot..

I also think its not very smart because this is also meaning that you have not sold bitcoins due the times the bitcoin had a great worth.
I also already had sold some nice bitcoin for some nice prices by now!

think GOLD :
2000 = 300 USD
2016 = 1300 USD

Bitcoin is more smart ... more fast.
And will replace the card system (or fiat ponzy system from central bank centralisation).

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img923/4463/uyJp5I.jpg

bitcoin value at 3200 USD in less than 10 years, not a big wait ...

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img922/8939/nz1218.jpg

they destroy the value of work in 50 years.
we can rebuild this value in less than 20 years.

Yeah he is lucky that he is in the world of bitcoin from that time. I also wish that I would know about bitcoin from the start of it. But as now we cannot go to the past we have to think for the future. I am collecting bitcoins and as I am sure that bitcoin has a bright future so I will wait for a longer time to get a high profit.

Yes indeed, its good to hold your bitcoin and the bitcoin has a good future but I maybe would already sold my bitcoins, I also already did but its more that it would be nicer if you are asking me.

Wooah that seem really quite patience huh you have that skilled that you can hold your bitcoin that long if i were you i already spend my bitcoin in nonsense thing like buying it all and im still earning bitcoins from faucets you are too lucky enough to hold that coins and the price is increasing :) well goodluck sir

How can he be stupid? He is holding a good investment. Even if the price today has gone up and could be 3 times the value when bought it. If he is still holding, then we have the same belief that the price of bitcoin will still go up in the future.

I agree with you.  It is cannot and will not be considered as stupidity if he still holds his bitcoin for 2.5  years.  For sure he have such a great income and gained a huge profit from it after he have bought it 2.5 years ago.  And he has this positive outlook that its price would continue to grow bigger and holding on to it.

If i were you, i will release the bitcoin and sell it all, exchange it into fiat. Because the price of bitcoin for now is already good and you can earn a good profit from it.

you are wrong in the past bitcoin was even higher was $1200 so definitely holding back then without selling a penny was a bad move, right now it's half of that

LOL i think OP is not that stupid, he just believe about bitcoin too much.  And i bet he already spend some but accumulate some too during this times.  Anyway, i really salute OP for this patience.  Maybe he has enough to not spend his all his bitcoin all those years.  Besides he never spent anything on this except time and effort and no money involve.

Don't you think price can still grow well above the current range? However i also think shorting half of your holding at current price can give you enough fiat so that you can buy back in case of price get dumped hard.

well, not really.
it will be soon 3 years from Mt. Gox crash. Just to remind, as people tend to have short memory, the price at the top was around $1200. We haven't seen these levels since then. All we got was $800 at the top of this year. So I can imagine there are people who are still well underwater.

I think in 3 years the price can do a lot. Meaning we could see a new all time high. But if you hold longer you may see you can earn even more because bitcoin needs adoption. More adoption means a higher price in the end. And we all benefit from that.

Well holding Bitcoins for 2.5 years is really not bad decision, i guess you re already in the profit mode, and if you sell your coins actually you make good earning.

I think its not possible for everybody to hold the bitcoins more than 2 years. There is daily and monthly bills and even some traders sell even with small profit percentage. But always holding still a profitable method.

Last time when I checked Bitcoin was much more expensive in the past. Sure it was a bubble, but in 2013 bitcoin reached its All Time High price of $1242.
I am not even sure if we will see price that high in the future. I wonder now if selling all bitcoin back then wouldn't be the best option.

Yeah 2013 bitcoin price is really big! I do expect that price happen again on the halving day but i do more expect a lot buut it didnt happen tho -_-. I think soon it will happen again :D lets hope ! That would really big if the price with that High Price!

Very smart move but i think his still holding his bitcoin thinking that bitcoin price will increase that too much or it will maximize this year we all hoping that waiting this to happen but if i were him also i'm going to exchange website exchange my bitcoin into real cash and or make a trade for other crypto-currency.

It really depends to a person on  how  he manage his bitcoins ,some may sell as of  the current price of bitcoin and some would  intend to keep a longer more and waiting for their  target price to sell their bitcoins. All of us  have difference on when and what price of bitcoin in the time we bought it and   all of us have the aim on gaining  profit thats why  some may sell for 10% profit and some  are  waiting for  more 100%-200% for sure which those people  who holds for longer of years now.

typical attitude from someone who probably cant afford a bitcoin lol
these people are toxic to the btc community and should probably move over to dogecoin or something more suited to them and their budget ;) ......

That is right. Every person has his/her own strategy in managing its assets or bitcoin. In my case, I have a portion of my overall bitcoin that I won't spend for decades to come. I just have them offer for loans in poloniex. So, regardless of present and future prices, I just hold it because I have big hope that its price will be really big decades from now.

All under the assumption that adoptions goes well. Look back at how the situation changed in the last three years. How much did we advance in the adoption, and how did the price change.
$1200 from the end of 2013, beginning 2014 seems to be a distant, overvalued level, even with the current adoption levels.

Yes indeed bitcoin prices was higher in the past but a drastic decline occurred in 2013 so that bitcoin prices low. Since 2013 until now bitcoin continued to rise so that bitcoin is constantly growing. It holds bitcoin in a long time is very risky due to the fluctuation of bitcoin is very dangerous.

Yes you're right but holding of bitcoins especially big amounts for about 2.5years is too long enough ,some people need money as you said they can't hold it for too long. That depends on what kind of life you are if i am rich well i will do the same as my savings like in bank but i rather save/invest it on bitcoins.
I have a normal life but i need as always money so i can't hold any amounts for that too long.

I think bitcoin holds more value than even useless gold for future.
It might really become money of all digital world. Because its easier for lots of operations.
So hold and wait. Dont hold just for price. Hold for future.

I think bitcoin will be valued more in the future too, which is why I am holding. Not 2 not 5 but at least for the second block halving. Because by then I am confident we get mass adoption and thus our bitcoins will see a realistic value.

In terms of adoption, gold is still ages ahead of Bitcoin, so I would be careful here. Still there are plenty of people who doesn't fell well with computers, let alone leaving their hard earned money for the speculation that Bitcoin is at the moment.

For people that are in the retiring age now and are not really into computer, they surely prefer investing to gold. Well, unless one of the members of their family or friends introduce bitcoin to them and they check and do extensive research about bitcoins then there is a possibility that they too will invest to bitcoins along with their gold investment.

I doubt it. The complexity is far too high, for them. There may be some examples of people who will be able to use Bitcoin at that age, but most of them will give up.
Among mid-aged, there will be also a big mass who is not able (or don't want) to swallow the risk that underlies Bitcoin.
That makes quite a big pack all together and I don't have a good answer how to address them.

Normally its good to hold the bitcoin a long time but I do think if the price is around the 1000 dollar you should have sold it because sometimes holding is not the best option.
I think that its better to just sometimes sell it, you have to look at the market 24/7

2.5 years is still kinda short term when it comes to investments. Keep it growing, you'll see its worth.

The chance that any exchange is going to be hacked within now and decades, based on historical data, is near 100%. Act accordingly.

yeppp 25 years then you can call it as a real investment ,
but so far bitcoin gives me a good experience ,
bought 3 bitcoin in the mid of 2015 price that time are $240 ,
and guess how much money i have made so far(if i keep holding that time)? with current $600 bitcoin price?
$350 x 3 = $1,050 , just keep holding. don't be like me (i sold it at $400)

I agree with you about holding bitcoin for a longer period of time. The best approach here and the most profit are the people that are investing bitcoin for a long term. You can invest in short term like buy low sell high but you need a big amount of capital in order to see some significant return. By the way, your selling of $400 was not bad at all, you still profited on that sell ;)

Allot of people are for a long time into the bitcoin and that is not strage because the bitcoin is getting more and more attention and taht is great because we need to help the bitcoin grow for the future.

You really  have  nice diversion  on your bitcoin  holdings and  i could say this is  somehow a wise decision  not putting all bitcoin on a  short investment, it would be better to lend  some  or make partitions of your bitcoin that are kept for  long term purposes which could  make assure your self that you would    be profitable in future.

Why holding bitcoins such a long time the price wont rise allot if everybody is just holding the bitcoins off course i know for sure that when you did trade the bitcouins in 2,5 year you will now had allot of money for sure!

2.5 years into the bitcoin and still holding this is not what i mean becuase holding does not give allot to the bitcoin you need to spent your coins also if you are not able to do it you are not able to take care with bitcoin.

This is simple. Someone who bought at the top of very close to the ATH has not yet seen the price getting to  70% of that value in the last three years or so. There two ways in such situation, either to hold hoping that the price will eventually catch up, it to sell at huge loss and then to do many smaller trades to recover for the loss.
And one more thing, there is nothing 'for sure' in Bitcoin, as it is a highly speculative asset. You can't easily predict what will happen next year, let alone the exact price.

I also think that waiting so long with buying is not smart but of course its also their own choice what they do with it.
I already would sold my bitcoins on a very high price.

I think him holding his bitcoin for so long is the opposite of stupid, Bitcoin has alot of potential which still has to grow out so why sell and not wait for a new all time high which is going to come for almost certainly.

3.5 years holding is allong time and i dont think that is something where you have to be proud of because you are not selling or spending and only dropping the price becuase of you idiot.

That's very nice that you're 2.5 years into bitcoin and still holding I have been holding for maybe over a year now but my hands are itching haha.
My plan is to hold for 5+ more years too to see where the price is heading and if i can make some nice profit.

people should put a lot of faith in bitcoin ,
believe that bitcoin will grow year by year and do planning on long term investment ,
don't make yourself regret twice like when you did not be an early adopter of bitcoin ,
i indeed have made a good profit ,
but my human nature tell me it was not enough , i want more than that.

Once again, think about the price action in the last three years or so, and think about possible entry points. What would you do, if you happen to buy next to the ATH, at $1200 or so?
Would you sell it for $400 or $300? It is easy to write that, now that you see the charts and how it played out.
I also wouldn't call someone idiot for holding. It is good to share you experience and mistakes to help learn more about Bitcoin.

This are the people who i hate the most look at the time he is holding 2.5 year in holding that is allong time do you really think that would help to make big profits dont think so.

2.5 is way too long to hold I even think that its not good because of the fact that holding is never good, the fact is that if you hold bitcoins it can be profitable but on a certain point you have to sell it than...

To hold so much years is good but I also think that holding too much is also not good and can you let a lot of money.
Some are holding to strong and I think that its even very bad for yourself.

Indeed holding for that long means he made a very good profit. I am also planning on holding mine for a very long time until price increases more again. You should probably not sell them yet since prices can reach 1k next year I think.

That's very nice that you are holding it for this long already my goal is also to save alot and hold for it as long as possible to make a good profit.
People that panic sell are the ones ruining it we should hold it and circulate small amounts to keep it active!

Indeed hold for the future but also for the price cause imagine how high the price gets if this will be the main currency.
Then even one bitcoin will make you rich you never know so take the risk if you lose you lose some money but if you win you win a new life.