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I would like to know what real value you think HODLing adds. What is the point of just holding bitcoin till moon and lambo ? This is cryptocurrency, why aren't we using this as currency? If we all just hold then this whole thing takes on a completely different business model, we lose all real value that it has as currency and it just becomes a full on speculative bubble.

Bitcoin and other currencies have no value if nobody uses them. So I would like to encourage everyone to spend and replace instead of just blindly holding. We won't see merchant adoption skyrocketing if nobody buys stuff with bitcoin. And yes I know it can go up in value, but why not just spend your BTC and EFT some fiat over to your local exchange and replace the BTC you spent ?
If any businesses accept BTC or other currencies it is our duty to support them extra for it and use cryptocurrency.

Your question is valid but your thinking is not close to the thinking of the ones who have probably made thousands if not million of $$$ in their own currencies just by holding it. It is really not a smart decision to sell your Bitcoins with huge losses. The ones who bought it at $19000 will face more than 100% loss by selling their coins at $7000 or below that. It really gives a funny but foolish type of image to them because many of them might have invested more than millions. And some of them already did  attempts of suicide just because of facing huge drops in the price of Bitcoins and the collapse of crypto-world in general.

So the best decision at current time is to hold the coins and wait for the right time to sell them. Bitcoin has some great future predictions so if any of those predictions becomes reality then those people might get rich within 2 years.

As long as the price is volatile and bitcoin is not used in payment systems, people prefer to hold their bitcoins. Even if they sell bitcoin, usually they don't sell it to buy something, they sell it for fiat.  Because they want to cash out their profit or they are panic selling.
Using bitcoin as a currency is great. But in my country I cannot use it to buy things. And I think most of the countries are same as my country.

Let's be honest here, do you actually use your Bitcoin for anything else rather than make money? I doubt it, most of us here don't. If you can buy something with Fiat currencies, then why spend BTC for the same product? Doesn't make much sense to me actually. Most people hold because from experience, they saw that it can possibly work out. The price spiked from $900 to $15.000+ within a year, thus, holders are becoming more and more confident that if they also hold for a good amount of time, they might actually make a lot of money, which isn't necessarily true.

I still  believe bitcoin will bounce back again , im a holder of bitcoin and tokens for almost 4 months and i lose 50% on my portfolio but still a true holder knows whats the best cause big rewards is coming for those hodlers.

It's true many merchants who started accepting Bitcoin say they stopped because there was no demand. However, I'm not sure forcing sales is the right side answer. We don't want false commerce any more than we want speculative bubbles. People will naturally start using the money that works better for them, the one that's convenient, cheap and fast. That's what people want. When Bitcoin starts beating national currency at that people will demand and reward businesses that accept it with natural sales.

Everyone is holding because everyone is treating their cryptocurrencies as an investment vehicle and there's just not enough merchant adoption around to use their coins into. Honestly if there would be enough merchants out there wanting to accept bitcoins for their products and services, many people will try to avoid using CC for the interests and the hassles it's accompanied with and just use bitcoins for their shopping instead. However, due to the lack of brave merchants wanting to do a start, coins which are supposed to be used as currencies are now stale and are being used as a speculative asset instead. Besides, there are no real guarantees that spending bitcoins = value or price. Most are probably wanting a share of success and they're doing that by means of letting their coins idle in their wallet for some time.

Yes you're right every one hold bitcoin for propose becuase of rising price when it comes the time that bitcoin grow up again with a huge price and because of that we can get a huge profit.

in your statement you say "why aren't we using this as currency?" it's because there are just a little that accept bitcoin, cause most of all country banning them so bitcoin can be a proper paid system. and as you can see the bitcoin price reached $20k in end of the year 2017, maybe the hodler believe the price can reach that top and even higher.

Bitcoin still very potential exceeds the current price. and I'm sure of that too. maybe I really can not hodl for a very long time but for those who have hope and have the determination and confidence to this bitcoin. he will definitely stay hodl until the price is very high. maybe 100k usd?
is that possible . YES

ofcourse with the market being bearish the safest way and less risky is to hodl.. but im sure everything will be fine and after this healthy correction is another all time high..

From point of view, people invested or bought it at a higher price and were waiting for it to increase in price so  they can sell. This is a situation where the prices have gone down and they will now choose to hold it than to sell it unless the prices goes up.

Well everyone hold bitcoin and make it as business since it has the ability to change price in a specific period of time. It does not rely on anything but on itself. People see it as a source of income by investing or buying bitcoin and wait the price to get high and make money through selling it again. This is how they make bitcoin circulate through the world. They used the volatility of bitcoin as well as other altcoins ability to change its price depends on the time.

instead of selling at lower price from your buy price then its better to hold the coins, especially if you have just hold bitcoin. never ever sell it before you gain its profit.

spend and replace the bitcoin now is just same as selling it at current price. right ?
if current price is higher then its okay.

We are still in the adjustment period of bitcoin becoming a payment option rather than a speculative asset. There are still so many merchants who doesn't accept bitcoin so we have no choice but to convert it to fiat and if ever we exchange it to the price now, we would spend a larger amount of bitcoin compared to the price when it would have a larger fiat value so that we can spend less bitcoin.

For now, majority of the people are holding bitcoin because we believe that its price would increase in the future and yes it would make it just a speculative asset rather than a currency which should be its purpose. Until all the products and services are still valued in fiat, then bitcoin would continue to be an asset because there is an equivalent fiat value of it which would make it volatile and prevents the businesses from adopting it.

The fact is most people think Bitcoin as a highly speculative financial asset, the volatility its given can make a tremendous profit and vice versa. sadly, Bitcoin as a payments system and currency is still lack of adoption from the mainstream.

Why not! What a dump price bitcoin is! Every moment every time bitcoin price is decreasing and decreasing instead of increasing. People buy bitcoin with high price but sell bitcoin as lower price..... very loss, so they decided to hold .

because they know that the bitcoin price  will shoot up again that's the reason they are holding

It is because there are not much businesses that accepts cryptocurrencies, hence, we cannot survive if we utilize the latter as currencies. More importantly, people who are into cryptocurrencies are here for opportunities of increasing their wealth. If they just spend the same the way they spend their fiat, there is not much of a gain in terms of accumulating wealth both for cryptocurrencies and traditional fiat currencies. And you know, with this, I can truly say most investors who are here are all for short-term gains with expectancy of huge profits. Sad but true. I think it has something to do with the global financial crises, hence, people grab every opportunity they can to improve their financial status.

Most people hold because everybody wants huge profit,it can be reachable if we hodl our bitcoins and wait until it skyrocket.Bitcoins can be spend if more merchants would accept it..more merchants that accepts bitcoi are those countries that bitcoin was legalize and adopted.
It can be made in doing fast transactions for sending digital money but most people hold bitcoins for future usage.As of this days there were less merchants around the globe,because of this votality some find it very complicated if they use it as a payment.

I think the main reason for hold Bitcoin is Low price, all the people deserve maximum project but at the present value are not good for sales, but some people are buying Bitcoin and they are also holding for future profit.

It true fact but its not working the way you are depicting it here! The crypto is backed up by million of people until now and with that said not everyone is HODL type of investors. Most of them are either gambler, trader and liquid investor. This categories them into these title depending upon how they are using the bitcoin for instance! There are only few % of people who actually hold their bitcoin as it is forever. They become the backbone for the market capitalisation of the bitcoin.
About the rest threee categorise, they are their to use the bitcoin, transact it on daily basis, transfer it From one address to other and much more things happening at the same time. I believe everything just fine, otherwise bitcoin would have never reached the current prices, aint it!

There are still many people who hold bitcoin to expect the price advantage to rise, and not everyone holds the bitcoin, which holds the bitcoin only those investors who invest in the long run, and I often make sales for the needs of everyday life.

I can not figure out, does everyone who holds bitcoin have the same purpose to hold? whether by holding everything will think to get a profit?

indeed bitcoin investment can be considered high risk, but that is if we panic and sell it when the price has decreased very drastically, but suppose we wait until bitcoin price l will rise again of course we will not lose, to be able to buy something or goods with bitcoin, only there is a in certain countries.

holding is the best way to avoid losses or cutloss
even a real trader or investor, will hold a holding for many years just to save his fortune
of course it all depends on certain considerations

bitcoin currently in my country only consider as digital asset so i can't free use my bitcoin for daily transactions because there was regulation that bitcoin not consider as official currency however regarding your questions that hold is good for those who already buy at high price so rather than being panic and lost so hold your coin and wait until the price recover back is more better

because I do not want my hard work every day gone, so easy, by selling cheap price. I think I will hold my bitcoin for a long time. with a high price. so I have nothing to lose.

In my opinion, people tend to hodl their btc for the reason that this is not yet the right time to spend where btc price has not yet spiked. People made to hodl because they are expecting to gain more from their investment rather than just spend it where that was not reason for them why they had invested.

Now the encrypted world is full of speculative bubbles, the entire community is still in the early stages of development, and a large number of projects will take a long time to get into practical applications, but the good news is that some governments and some big companies have been trying.

Some people just know that the price of bitcoin will increase in the future, but that's just a guess. Investing in bitcoins is really risky and it is more fortunate than rational.
Bitcoin is accepted as a fiat currency is very difficult. Because bitcoin is unmanaged, its value is dependent on the amount of investors. So its value is not clear and businesses can not use it.

The thing to realize is that while Bitcoin is indeed a global decentralized currency, we are only now entering the early adoption phase. Very similar to the Internet in 1993.
We are about to see a great many changes take place. Bitcoin is the "internet of money", which is maybe the best reason to hodl.

But there many other good reasons to hodl.

Many people fail to understand what Bitcoin represents for the future of commerce and finance.

You'r question is absolutely ok. It's a correct question.
Just look to your fingers. All of them are not the same. So, all the people in crypto world also not the same. They hold bitcoin to earn money rather than using a currency. I say it's rather a need for them to earn. They buy bitcoin when ther price is low and start to hold it. When it raise then they sell them.
But don't worry I think crypto world will make a good policy to develop crypto currency in future.

Why HODL? Because people don't want to waste their bitcoins. Its price could be so much more if you just wait for it to grow. It is an investment, and investments are meant to be like that. We all want big amounts of money out of our holdings, and it takes the right time to earn it.

Yes your right ever since hodl bitcoin gain alot more youll just have to wait for it to skyrocket and if you are impatient youll regret it someday just what I regret the year when I entered into bitcoin community I did sell my bitcoin in cheap price.

not "Everyone" is holding. if they were then price would have never moved at all. in fact these days a lot of people (mostly newbies) are selling their bitcoin. and holding is what most people do because of a couple of thins. for example because they don't want to become day traders buying and selling constantly. or when they believe in the long term potential of bitcoin. imagine if you have bought bitcoin last year at $900, you wouldn't care about this temporary dip at all!

Every one is very positive about the future growth of Bitcoin. They think price will go higher and higher from time to time. So most of us are holding not selling at this moment. Meanwhile price has decreased  as well.

Because bitcoin is still not suitable for large-scale use.
I hope that the lightning network can solve this problem, so that bitcoin will really have the value to use.

Actually people were not holding, they are slowly cashing out for the past few months. Just look how the total market cap of cryptocurrency have dropped, from $800B last year it is now down to just $250B more or less.

*I do understand your rant, but you cannot force people specially if they have bought BTC when it was at high. What do you want from them just accept their loss?

Holding bitcoin is the best way that we can do specially when the market was bearish and we just remember for every dip there was a pump better to do the safety things than cutting of losses to avoid any loose we are just going to wait when the market would become stable we better had a vacation to relax ourselfs to avoid any depression cause of market.

All of us has a different description on what is happening now in the market but even there are a long period of downfall many of us really holding there bitcoin. I think that those people are really admiring and patronizing btc in all the years of it's existence in the market that is why they not easily surrender their coins and still stay and hold in what they have right now. There believe and trust to the capability of bitcoin is I think up to the sky. And even there investment are in danger zone they always thinking that it will move upward again and btc are leading their way to success.

You are right, bitcoin was invested to be used as a payment medium. However, everyone has forget about the basic concept and is busy making money with bitcoins. This cannot go for long.

If you will be asking me, that is how it works as people knew it. You buy when the price is low and then you sell it when the price are high but most of the time, they are not selling it but instead they are holding it. I do not know if they are getting a good profit by doing that since they are just holding their digital currencies without any plans when and what price they will be selling it.

Everyone hold their bitcoin. Because The bitcoin prize become rise. When it's prize become more profitable they can sell their bitcoin. For this reason everybody become holding.

This kind of dips and downtrends should happen as this is part of bitcoin nature. If you look at the chart history from 2013 onwards, you will always see that Q1 of the year is the worst. Q2 is OK and Q3 is better. Bitcoin is always actively smart when it comes to Q4.

In this case, JUST HOLD means that if u have some coins, just hold it for some time and avoid selling it in this downtrend (bearish market). If work and getting a salary, it is better to use 3% of ur salary and buy and hold it for some time. Follow the news obviously and put a little trust in this project. Check out the news channel by the way and stay updated of the latest news and trends https://t.me/whatsoncrypto

I think the main reason why most of us are holding is just because they are still believing and hoping that btc will be rising up again and it won't never fail us to have our success in the near future. We can't blame those people because I think that bitcoin has a biggest part of having their better life for now that's why even it's really dipping for a long time they keep holding there coins. Well, we have a different prediction and it is good if we can easily listen to others because the most important is what we wanted to do about this because our investment are in here and we are the one who is responsible to this no matter what happen.

HODLING is a choice and you can't say to someone that they must not do it, even in real life people are HODLING their money because why in the world would they spend their money to nonsense things if they know a thing that there is a chance for a potential growth.

If you think that your idea was so good and want to teach it to others then do it but that doesn't mean you are right. You can't please everybody though.

I do not think that now we have to use the cryptocurrency for our spending.  Now the cryptocurrency is subject to strong volatility.  I think that in five years the crypto-currency market will become more stable, and then we will massively use the cryptocurrency for everyday purchases.  But now it's time to accumulate and earn money.

Well over here in South Africa our "Amazon" called takealot accepts BTC. If I want to buy a PS4 with the bonus i got this month, it is better for bitcoin for me to buy that mount in new bitcoin and then pay with bitcoin, or pay with bitcoin and then immediately buy new bitcoin.

I really think we should start spreading the word of spend and replace instead of HODL. If you spend and replace it is not like you are selling your BTC. You are adding more liquidity to the system and showing businesses there is a demand.

What happens if we all HODL and no merchants accept it anymore ? In that day regrettably I must say itl go to zero. We need to keep its use case alive 

Those who want to double their investment they are waiting for the future and through this way we have t keep patience and this is very good that now a days the bitcoin price is going to rise and if we hold our bitcoin the value will double soon but some of the people sell their coin then they are not happy for this decision.

I understand where you are comimg from bitcoin was intended by Satoshi to be used as a currency amd to be a form of payment but you should also understand that as long as the value changes people will take advantage of it.

This is why some people consider bitcoin as an asset. They know in time the value will increase.

A lot of people have watched the value of their coins and portfolios plummet to less than half their value and they all know that the only people who have lost are the people who sold their coins when prices were low so everyone is just holding and making sure their coins are safe and are going to wait until the next bull market so that they can make all of their money back.

I do not think everybody holds their bitcoins, usually who keep their bitcoins invested in the long run, and for those who need their money will definitely sell bitcoins, and yesterday I also bought bitcoins.

bitcoin investment is not about spending bitcoins. Naturlly if that digital currency could be use in buying goods, products and services then why not? I dont think that someone will still hold if it is usable to the point in a form of paymenT. However, bitcoin is like a gold. You need to sell it first to fiat money before we can buy the things we like. Thus, we cannot use btc for spending it except buying for anothrr crypto or the alt coins. And if you are going to spend that way you can end up earning more a lot profit or your money will be wasted. Why hold? thus, making profit and take the advantage of bitcoin price volatility. Sell btc when we can earn profit but holf if not

Some are selling because of the current price while others are just hodling and not everyone. Maybe more than the numbers of sellers are hodlers which are reasonable during this time because they don't want to lose their money and they are optimistic and they trust on the capabilities of bitcoin. These hodlers know when and how to play the game as they continue to hodl their coin.

I just like it watching and being a part of the beginning of crypto currency era

It is because they still believe in bitcoins future. Many people still hold their bitcoin because they keep on having this trust that someday they can gain a big profit from it where people who sell their bitcoins will regret doing it. I want to admit that i am still holding my coins because of this hope. Maybe the bitcoin's price are really declining in its max value and really convincing people to sell their coins. But in the end the people who have that much faith in bitcoin still hold and keeping it for the sake of their future. Well i guess, holding bitcoins somehow help ot to maintain the balance in the market.

And what do people do with their gold? They also hodl because there's nothing else you can do with gold, unless you're a jeweler of course. Now, why don't people talk about gold hodlers this way? I think it has to do with the understanding of cryptocurrencies that their main role is to be exchanged for goods, like fiat. In reality it has many equal uses and one person can treat it like a stock that can only be held or traded, a store of value that can be kept in a safe place until its needed, or even as a way to move money abroad with low fees.

    If you are an investor who wants to earn more profit then you will think wisely. Bitcoin is the investment and not totally as mode of payments. Holding bitcoin now is the best way to earn profit because i believe bitcoin will rise more than what we think and predict. If you buy bitcoin when the price is $16000 then now the price is $7000 what do you do? You sell and take the loses or you hold  and wait the price will go back to $16000 or more to have profit. Holding is important in cryptocurrency where the price and market are volatile.

I like all your thoughts about using bitcoin as a currency, instead of just earning money by just holding it in a long period of time. But we can't blame others by still holding of their bitcoins, because most of them actually both it in a higher price which is hard for them to sell at this time at a lower price that will cause their losses. And some bitcoin holders are using it as an investment plan instead of a digital currency that can be used for online paying and purchasing products through online shops that accepts bitcoin.

Everyone have the right to hodl thier bitcoins, especially when the token was dump, think before it sell instead of selling at lower price HODL it  until bitcoins pump up.

And many people HODLing because they don't want to use it, but to invest it. Many people HODLing know what are they up to, because market sometimes predictable too. And HODLing have it's positive side you know? like, custody of assets and passive income. HODLing is not a bad move either, because many coin just use their coin to make its project work, once it done, let it flow.

This is great that bitcoin and some other currencies are so liquid assets that we are able to use them as meant of payment. But what would i say - many people now regret that sold or spent their bitcoins when the price was 200-300$. Look at the old topics of that forum. To sell for 200-500$ was very good deal and what are these people feeling now? or those ones who sold for 10$?  :o  I'm not greedy, but i see potential and i have enough fiat money for my everyday needs, so, no sense to spend crypto assets.

I definitely agree with your statement and would recommend to do so. Selling the bitcoon when the is low would result for a huge loss to the seller. Waiting for it to increase is not bad otherwise the holder accumulates a large reward for waiting.

why are we holding? some of us invested when the value is on high thats why we are holding, we do also campaigns so that we wil get back whats lost when we have invested. we also do trading on some altcoins we receive that is also our ways to earn and get profits to. we all know what you mean because this is the cycle of the market that is way we do trading also. not everyone is joining the waves because many are loosing and few people gets profit.

I think everyone holding it do not want to encounter loses and they still believe in the potentiality of bitcoin so holding and waiting for the next bull market is the way out.

They holding because the price was too small so that's why they are waiting to increase the price and sell the token they hold.
Or the token they hold was have a potential to increase the value.

You have a point but not all view bitcoin as just a currency, most of them since they’ve struggled hard to get some of it due to it’s price being expensive so nobody just wants to lose if they bought it 18-20k$ and just use it as a currency on its current value which is more than 50% lower than their capital. Some regard it as an asset also so they are hodling as long as they have not yet reached their target value. Besides they dont just speculate, they believe bitcoin value  is going to recover once again so they keep on hodling theirs.

I think everyone is waiting for rising the price of Bitcoin.we all know that the price of Bitcoin increases and decreases most often. and when the price of Bitcoin decreases if we do not hold our Bitcoin and sell our Bitcoin then we won't be profited I think that's why people are holding Bitcoin.

You have a good thought mate, but hodling has a purpose if many of us will go sell and sell all the time, what do you think will be the price?  I think it will dump mate. We are hodling because we have a target price on when to sell to have some of profits on it. Just hodl no matter what

Holding is the easiest way to earn money according to the passed experience which only requir us to choose the mainstream coins like bitcoin and eth, and it will give us huge profits after several years holding

I agree with your opinion but we cannot stop people from holding Bitcoin because of its value remember Bitcoin's value started at few cents now it skyrocketed to thousands of dollars and everyone are hoping that their shares will increase ten folds, because they have from the past performance of Bitcoin that you can get rich here.

I am simply too busy to follow all the ups and downs and I bought pretty early so I don't bother trading in and out.

Everyone are holding because the price is too low and they want to increase it to get a huge profit of it that can help in the near future. You must hold it in a long term as long as you can do it to get what you want to achieve. This way will help you to have a good life.

For the average investor, the lack of good trading skills can only be encrypted for a long time. This is the quickest way to make money.

Everyone keeps his bitcoin or Altcoin because when the market goes up, everyone is expecting big profits. This happened until January and I do not know what will happen after that. I'm not a graphist or anything. But I know that those who make the right move at the right time can earn very good money with Bitcoin or any other krypton. The opposite is possible at the same time. Those who make the wrong move at the wrong time can also experience great financial losses.

The used of btc for purchasing or for payment isn't yet stabilize nor it become acceptable in all establishments that's why mosty investors are using this as an investment.  Of course, profit is what they aiming for and holding is the safest way to be free from losing.

This is going to be a really great time to buy bitcoin, bitcoin has just fallen down a bit, grab the opportunity and buy lots of bitcoin and keep it until it's up again. As bitcoin will increase and increase more.. That my throught.

its hard dude, the one and only thing i use bitcoin is for make a money, get it from work like bounty campaign, sell it on exchanger and withdraw to my local bank. this is not because i want to make bitcoin as a speculative bubble, but in my country bitcoin and other cryptocurrency is illegal to use as a payment methods. but for now its still legal for digital asset invesment. so i prefer to HODling it until got valuable profit rather than use it for useless thing

Everyone is holding because as of now, the price of Bitcoin is very low which is not suitable to be sold. So if we want to have a better gain from our investment, holding is the best option and wait for the price to go up before selling our stocks.

Everyone has their own way in the way they use the btc they have. I feel I don't have to do much if I have to hodl. I just need to wait for the right moment to sell. Some people may feel their burden will increase if they have to think about it all the time. And that's really dizzying. It's different if the person dedicates his whole life to bitcoin.

Well everyone is hodling because they trust that bitcoins value will increase tremendously this year. This theory may be feasible though not 100% accurate since we cannot really predict the market. But since there are huge development in bitcoin such as the approval of Bitcoin ETF by the Securities and Exchange Commission along with other major god news in btc, we could only imagine what will be the reaction of the bitcoin market towards this good news. In my opinion, it is really good to hold bitcoin now than to sell today only to realize that its value have increased tremendously.

everything that you have said is totally true however you have to realize the main reason most of us are involved in bitcoin is because it will provide huge financial returns the currency feature and all the other features are pretty much just added benefits for them , the prices of bitcoin has fallen and remained stagnant for a while now ,everyone expects it to increase in value soon , so because of this expectation everyone is holding hoping to cash in on this price increase.

I think everyone holding bitcoin because now bitcoin price is low. I guess people always want good profit. If you can buy high price and sell low price then you get less money. I think people do not want it. I think So people  holding bitcoin for high price.

not everyone just hold their coins. some of them use for pay something.
maybe the holders don't want to spend their coins yet because the coin value now is low.
they will loss if spend it.

From what I had observed, investors are holding as of the moment because the exchange right now is on a downward trend. Investors are saving their investments to prevent further loss...

For me holding BTC means that I prefer on having BTC as it is than fiat. I do make trades with BTC especially in the cyberworld since it is much more convenient to use than using fiat in your transactions in cyrberworld. Also, we should keep the price circulating than just hoarding. I think others' interpretation in this statement is quiet different than what it should be in my opinion.

Hi Forum !

People are Holding because it's the best thing to do!
You sure can daily trade and take advantage from prices movements but it's risky and you'll spend a bunch of time doing that.

If you just buy and Hodl you have no stress!

Because they are simply waiting for profits or just lost some capital and they are just hoping that they could get it back. These two reasons are the most common answers that you could probably get. As long as there is a possibility that bitcoins and other coins can raise their value, for sure many will  remain holding them and could buy more as of the cheaper coins are on the line
The fact that they knew that it can rise, they would think twice to spend a coin that could double its value in the future.

Hodling is only done to those who invest, while they also will not invest all, some are used in everything, whether it's trading or anything. So you do not have to worry about the hodling done by investors and traders.

This is call freedom, you can decide on what you do with your coins, if you want to hold the coins, gamble with it or use it as a currency, if you compare all the investment segments, there is speculation and so is the reason that they are investing and if that is the case do you call each and every sort of investment a speculative bubble.  :P

Every holder believes that Bitcoin will come back soon. When Bitcoin fall down all cryptocurrency gone down. And Bitcoin falling season is going now. Every crypto token going down. I am a crypto holder. I hold a lot of crypto token. And I want to hold them for a very long time. And I believe that one day I will make a huge profit on it.

You can not assume that bitcoin is worthless for the simple fact that at this moment its technology is at an early stage of adoption, and you do not seem to have a significant reference to the potential it still has in the long term. It is true that the majority of those who are now engaged in "HODLing" are only interested in the great potential of profitability that could be obtained in case the bitcoin shoots up at prices as high as $100,000 or more, but who really believe in the bitcoin efficiency as a financial alternative we are already using it intensively, regardless of its current or future price.

People do not want to book lost, because they have trade bitcoin in such a high price and now it has become difficult to bear such a big lost, therefore they have only one option to continue holding their bitcoin for some more time, and i think that it will be a very good decision for them, because bitcoin price still have good potential and will hopefully will very soon reach to its previous price.

Well others Hodling because they trust the potential of bitcoin and other cryptocurrency, they think that they will just need to hold and if the price increase they will be alot of profit for them, and also i think of a major reason why some people are not using crypto for daily transaction because of the price is not that stable sometimes it is so low thats why many dont want to waste it, sometimes it is high that others want to keep it. That's the logical reason why others choose to Hodl

everyone is hodling because they see something big future and it is already unstoppable. this time hodling will be the best way to earn than selling it in lower price and lossing some money. lot of investor hodl all their money  for long term because they see in 2016-2017 a big pump.

You ask these questions like a newbie would, I do not mean any insult. But remember that hodling causes artificial scarcity and this scarcity will cause price to rise as few available for sale would be jerked up. If gold were easily available like salt or water do you think its price would've gone that high? No, it wouldn't. So hodling is a game to make price go up.

ofcourse with the market being bearish the safest way and less risky is to hodl.. but im sure everything will be fine and after this healthy correction is another all time high..

It is easy for you to say to use bitcoin and any other cryptocurrencies maybe because in the country you live in, you get to ise it. But what about those who live in some countries who does not accept bitcoin and cryptocurrencies? How are they going to ise it as a “currency”? The real reason why people are hodling, is that most of them think the same and that bitcoin will be worth a thousand dollars more in the near future thus hodling them until the time wherein they are satisfied and sell their coins by then.

This is because people are investing only their additional savings and thus they do not need this money urgently. Thus, they do not mind waiting for long time.

For me there is no point on selling right now when I don't earn any profit at all. I'd rather hold my precious bitcoin and wait for the price to go up again. Like everyone that holds there bitcoin, I also want to earn profit big or small. Also holding bitcoins make the price go up because of the demand of supply increases.

People are just holding to have a better chance for a bigger gain if the price start to rise. It is not required to hold but it is an option worth for our investment when it comes to a long term investment.

Everyone hold their bitcoin because their hoping that the price of it will getting higher. Maybe, they want to times three from the original price so that they will get more money. Such a wise idea.

Surely, those who are holding are also awared of the natural market volatility. Volatility is a normal thing in cryptos which includes ups and downs on a certain crypto's value. Given that it is a normal phenomenon,recovery is always expected to happen. As such selling will just lead to permanent loss of profit. It is much better to hold and wait until the market fully recovered.

well the hodling has some advantages and disadvantages, the disadvantages are obvious as you stated in your post but if the btc goes into circulation than the price which is supported may go very low which will make the adoption even slower than now.

There are many reasons why people are hodling and not selling what ever coin they have,it is because they believe that that coin has a potential to bloom up or has a history of sudden pump on price or the company behind it has good roadmap that is being followed by the team.hodling is for more profit and more loss at the same time if things go wrong

In a most decentralized and largely confined market, the value of popularity is promising for price increases. Holding is the best way to increase your profits over time. Of course, with the consciousness and thought of each person, the profit goals set out are different and form the different fluctuations.

Coin trading is a good business. But at a time when prices in the market are greatly reduced inexperienced traders are very difficult to navigate in prices. At this moment the best country is holding. You're not taking any chances. You will lose your trading income, but it will be compensated after the price increase. And prices will recover faster.

If we go by your suggestion that since the market is bearish that we should hodl, then you miss it. This is because the coin in hodl keeps losing value as the bear continues. The best thing is to tether once the market becomes bearish. You tether your coin against the usdt. That way you save it from losing value.

It could be because a lot of people like me have lost so much money and have seen the value of their coins plummet so much that holding is the only thing we can do.

because people believe that bitcoin will come back soon. The price for selling is very low. i had bitcoin, i would not sell this price.

Well, everyone is holding it for now in the hope getting an increased profit in the future. Moreover many are also investing in it presently as the price had attained a quit lower value and it can pump up anytime. However the currency had a numerous of global supporters who won't let it down, so try to hold it tight as you never know what surprise it brings in future...

Well, you really have a point man, I cannot take that away from you. But try to consider putting yourself in the shoes of other people that have invested and bought bitcoins in the all time high prices like 16-19k us dollar. If you do that, I would really doubt that you would be saying the same thing. You see, these people have invested maybe millions if not thousands into bitcoins which is why it would be hard for them to do what you are saying just like that. Which is why they choose to hold than to sell at a loss because they will be losing millions of investment capital. Hope you get what I am trying to point out.

I agree that holding bitcoins really create the bubble you describe because once an investor sells his coins when price high, there will be changes in the ratio between supply and demand which results also in a change of price. And with no clear use for bitcoin volatity will always happen.

People are HODLing because the cryptocurrency market is down and that affects every coin in the market including bitcoin and all of the altcoins too. People are investing in cryptocurrency to make profits and easy money. why do you think they should sell now while the majority of people will end up losing their money? #HODLing is the solution as the price will grow again in the future!

Bitcoin right now is more of a storage of value than a payment method. This could change with lighting network. Still it would be better to just hold because its made by satoshi to not depreciate.

Its like using gold instead of fiat for everyday transactions. Do you see many people use gold?

Hodling it is the right thing to do now if you want the price of Bitcoin to go back to 5 digits. Yes we know that using it helps to make sure that Bitcoin continues to circulate, but if you think about it, if you want to buy something and its available only for Bitcoin and you cant buy Bitcoin because no one is selling and just hodling, would you be willing to buy Bitcoin at a higher price?

Because it's the easy way out. It is also what appears to be the least risky and what could bring enormous returns in 2017. I also think of holder taking part in the development of cryptocurrencies rather than pure speculation... It allows projects to grow faster, thanks to the increase in demand...

Because, holding is the right choice for now. According the price of bitcoin is low. We can't sell bitcoin now, if we sell it, we don't get more money.

Hodling is easier task to do in investing in crypto but with high risk. And many are bag holder because many have bought on 19k ATH on january and believe that crypto will comeback. If they sell it now it will incur lose.

Everyone is holding because they have no other choice.People have invested in Bitcoin when the price was very high and now they can't afford to sell their BTC's because they will face huge loss as the price is very low so that's why they are just holding their BTC's.Currently every Bitcoin investor is believing in Bitcoin and it's capability to recuperate from this drop and waiting for it to rise again so that they can sell their BTC' s at some good price in order to earn some profits and to save themselves from such a huge loss.So instead of committing the mistake of panic selling, have trust on Bitcoin.It is just a bad phase.Good time is yet to come.

It is true. Although no one can really predict the increase or decrease in the price appropriately. It's just the belief that bitcoin has a bright future makes most people hold it. Moreover, if you observe the development of the chart, which for several years always shows an uptrend.

In my opinion, holding is like more profit. First you need patience on this thing and the risk you may encounter. But, if you have that traits, you patience will be successful. Just wait and wait until the price climbs up.

Becuase the majority are considering btc as an asset and a way to profit from it and I don`t believe in most of newcomers honesty that say I believe in it and I am an adopter.

This is really a big problem and people are not understanding the depth of the situation. Even the developers wanted it to be used as a payment medium only. With time as the prices started to increase rapidly, people started to use it as in investment medium. I do not have a problem with people making money with bitcoins but this way it will not survive for long.

Everyone is hodling because if they sell their bitcoin at low price obviously they will be at loss and it's not like they are just holding. Most of them are going into trading to increase their earnings further and some are buying more bitcoins especially when the price is lower since it is a good opportunity to gain more income once bitcoin price goes up again. You cannot say that bitcoin has no value because nobody uses it. Many people uses bitcoin as mode of payment online.

I agree with OP's opinion that we should use cryptocurrencies as a payment system and not as a speculative instrument in the first place. Even the core principles of Bitcoin states that it is a payment system. I tried to hold 50% of my funds and try to spend remaining amount but as we all know that we don't have that level of crypto friendly market environment as of now, we have to rely on online options to spend our funds. I am sure that in the coming years we will definitely have Bitcoin accepted here boards and we will see growth in the utility value of Bitcoin. I am not against hodling but I that we should use it as a payment system.

Everyone?   No.   

There's billions traded every single day. 

I am not one of those who hold their bitcoins, I have to spend the bitcoins that I have to support the needs of my family on a monthly basis. But holding cryptocurrency does make sense to me as they appreciate in value as their rarity increases day by day and so does their popularity and demand and this increases the price of the cryptocurrency. So if someone would have hold a 1000$ bitcoins from 2010 till now then he wouldn't have to go to job for any other day in his life and not even his kids would have to do the same.

Not everyone is holding since there is a lot of trading happening now. If everyone is holding then the price should not be moving ang not fluctuating. So some are trading there coins in exchange

Your idea is truly great and with time i think we will pay with crypto in everyday life.

But for now only few countries allow payments in crypto, amount of merchants shops accepting crypto is rising but not that significant. With some government spreading bad news around crypto, the process of crypto payments will only slowdown, sadly.
Nowadays, for me it makes sense having some altcoins in my portfolio with potential to be used in everyday life.
I believe we still have a long way to go before we can easily be able to spend crypto more instead of fiat.

 bitcoin price  will shoot up again thats why people hold

If you have been reading Bitcoin price charts from previous years, you must understand that Bitcoin tends to follow the similar price cycle almost every year that is starting from a bear phase and ending in bull phase. According to that logic, this is the best time and opportunity to enter longs. If you enter at this price, you can make good profit margins by the end of the year on almost any cryptocurrency. This is how the market cycle works. Thus, people who are going long term at this point are opting for the best possible option at the moment with less risk involved.

I will keep the bitcoin because I'm sure bitcoin will grow and it will be needed in the future because bitcoin uses technological progress and the development of the era

Because hodling is the best and sensible option at this time because as soon as you sell your bitcoins, you are going to realize your loss and i am sure that most of us are very hopeful that the value is going to rise once again eventually.

simply; for the price saw the maximum. people are still waiting for the price to rise again. Otherwise, holding it can not be another mood. :(

Not everyone is holding their BTC, but as you said the vast majority of people here are holding at least some of their bitcoins. The reason is quite simple, many people actually believe that they can still become millionaires thanks to it. However, they all forget that Bitcoin aim is to become a currency, it won't achieve it if they continue to hoard their BTC without spending it. Bitcoin adoption rate won't increase if people won't use their BTC as they are supposed to. We can't force them to sell or move Bitcoin, but they should use it from time to time.

Yes it is indeed the current price of bitcoin down so it must have been a lot orqng buy bitcoin menghodling and the person will sell bitcoin at the right time that is at an expensive price. Bitco has very potential to exceed current prices. and I'm sure that too. maybe i really can not hodling for a very long time but for those who have hope and have the determination and belief in this bitcoin. he will surely stay until the price is very high.

Of course, but a lot of people are deceived about bitcoin and they sold a few weeks ago when we touched $10,000. Nowadays the price is extremely low, i would not even bother myself to sell a single coin, because it is a waste of time. We all must hold, otherwise, we would lose everything.

The most basic reason behind holding of the bitcoins and other crypto coins at this very moment is the decrease in the market value of all the coins and because of which, everyone is trying to be extra protective as they know this fact quite well that if they plan to sell their coins now, then they will only suffer a huge loss and that nothing good will happen and they will only regret in the future.

I think holding of bitcoin is the right choice because the market value of bitcoin is low from last couple of weeks. I believe that bitcoin market will stabilize. People see bitcoin as a source of income by buying or investing bitcoin and wait the price to get high and make money through selling bitcoin again.

Everyone hold their bitcoin because they think that the price of it will rise up. they hope they will get more profits.

Every one is holding the bitcoin because the present bitcoins position is not good for redeem it since the market is dropping. One who is possessing the bitcoin concerned it is not a good time for sell it. .Naturally he has to hold the bitcoin till his projected target is achieved and the dropping market is good for buying it. The person who is holding the bitcoin might be a real and wise investor, who might be confident of holding it till the market is reached to his required level.

Because if you try to adapt to the market, then you just lose everything.
There are too many speculators on the market who try to play on your fear

I completely agree with you. Sadly all these cryptocurrencies are not viewed as currencies or as an alternative currency. They are viewed as assets and people and investors are holding for the price to grow so they can sell on a profit. Most of them bought at a higher price then it is today so they wait for the price to ounce back again.

Everyone hodling there tokens because of practical reasons, people who hodl tokens believe that time will come tokens is more valuable, another reason could be token holder still waiting the time  that bitcoin can be use in daily expenses.

Everybody is posting herre around to hold their coins. But just a few people are doing this really. The most people here in cryptocurrencies are really weak hands who buy imidietaly when they hear some fud news. Thats why the corrections was so hard. If theres more stronger hodler community, the coins wouldnt dump that hart. So for me thats really disappointing that the community here is so weak. I hope all the weak hands got out of this game, that would be better for all of us and the value of the coins and tokens!

There are right time to hold and right time to sell. I don't think most bitcoin users are just holding forever, most of them are waiting for the peak then sell and then buy back at dip. When you are at loss it's better to hold and wait for the price to increase.

Basically people hold bitcoin for several months due to high or better profit target in the future. Because of price drop and btc holders have not got any profit, they must be patient to wait for price to rise in order they can get profit as expected. Sometime they can sell bitcoin to exchange into fiat money to buy something needed in the market. So the main motive to hold bitcoin is profit motive as they want to get in the future.

Because we believe that it is not worth to sell right now but rather it is worth to hold. As the price of bitcoin now is low. We are waiting for the right time to sell or fto long term investment.

I’m hodling because I believe in btc and crypto

I expect Bitcoin to become worth a lot in the long run, so in the meantime, it is both a currency and a speculative investment. And I don't like nor trust the banks, insurance companies, unions or any other thing like that.

A lot of people have lost so much money and if they sell now that means that their money are all gone and there is no way to get it back so holding is best until prices go back up.

I am a person who includes hold bitcoin, I believe in the strength of bitcoin that will return to a high price, if we look at the bitcoin price graph, it is not impossible. bitcoin has had some difficult times, but it can bounce back even beyond our expectations. there may be some pessimists with bitcoin, but I believe bitcoin can create new hope in terms of transactions around the world

For me, nothing wrong about holding bitcoin, actually im one who holds too. As long the value of bitcoin is volatile much better to holds it, we're waiting to get the high value of bitcoin,then sell it, to get the best value you should hold wisely..

It is just a form of strategy because the price of a  bitcoin nowadays is very very low, and if we sell our bitcoin now we will loose profit, that is why most of the investors here just holding their coins and wait for the right time to sell it.

Yes of course almost all investors buying bitcoin are now holding and waiting for the bitcoin to rise up so they can sell it in high price to make a good profit.

Everyone is holding their bitcoin because I think it is a strategy to the success, they usually hold because of some factors like the price of bitcoin is decrease so they will hold it so that it will not be loss for them.

if a high Bitcoin price can not hold Bitcoin much, but the circumstances that make everyone do not want to sell it, maybe because it buys at a high price selling at a low price, they will definitely hold it..

I will not sell it and keep it, because Bitcoin will go back to a higher level, that's the reason I always hold Bitcoin, even though there's a lot of bad news about Bitcoin but I'm always sure Bitcoin will come back again.

Until now I still hold the bitcoin I have, even though for the past 4 months I've lost half of my assets, but I'm sure bitcoin will definitely come back, go up at a high price, and that will make me, have far-reaching results more.

I think it's just a good long-term investment. As it stabilizes, its value will increase. A lot of people also think bitcoin is undervalued

Everyone of us who has been into the bitcoin for long is trying to keep our coins in our hands until or unless we find no other way to meet our financial demands related to daily life. This is clear because the present value of bitcoin tag it as a precious asset that is not meant to be wasted through selling or even the trading method of earning profits.

Very true, but if most people are hodling it should be a good thing for the number of bitcoins in circulation is limited. So that if you want to get some in that limited market you need to pay more.
In another word, hodling also increase the price. But yeah we need to keep using it to maintain its function and value

Nope if all people holding there bitcoins not do any transaction means the price will not increase it will be stable at one price. people must do the transaction then only demand and supply and increase and the price will increase. But why everyone is holding means nobody wants to lose their money all playing safe game.

Every one should get huge profit my believe for that reason most of the people are holding bitcoin. I am agree with that that bitcoin just not hold a blind customer you need use bitcoin so many other place. Bitcoin is the best and you should use all over the world and all work.

The ones who are holding are not the majority of people. They are just the people who thought they have missed the boat and have invested after the last year's bitcoin price hike. The ones who have already made enough from bitcoin are using bitcoin for investing in new projects and also for their daily needs if their country has means to use it like a mode of payment. But for the people who JUST decide to hold it, they also somehow help in increasing its value as more and more people would try to get into the market in the future and due to bitcoins limited supply, the demand will increase resulting in an increase in its price.

The least thing you could do as a responsible bitcoin enthusiast/investor is holding bitcoins when the price is at a decrease rather than letting panic take over and resort to panic selling. A lot of investors especially the veteran ones hold bitcoins at such points because they are aware that the dip wouldn't be forever, and that given a few months or even days bitcoin would recover and they will regain the losses easily.

bitcoin and other currencies have no value if nobody uses them so i would like to encourage everyone to spend and replace instead of just blindly holding....we won't see merchant adoption skyrocketing if nobody buys stuff with bitcoin know it can go up in value,any businesses accept BTC or other currencies it is our duty to support them extra for it...it's true many merchants who started accepting bitcoin say they stopped because there was no demand not sure forcing sales is the right side answer we don't want false commerce any more than we want speculative bubbles. People will naturally start using the money that works better for them, the one that's convenient, cheap and fast. That's what people want. When Bitcoin starts beating national currency at that people will demand and reward businesses that accept it with natural sales....

Because there have no alternative option to get back profit and also have the believe in Bitcoin that soon the price will recover so the Investor hold the coin. There has no option without sell and no one don’t want to sell with lose. So what should we do either sell or hold? Holding the coin will be wise able task.
There also fact that if everyone hold the coin how the price will increase according to supply and demand. It’s necessary to sell the coin to get profit because if they sell than the investor invest on it and the price will increase again. Either Its quite disappointed news that the price of bitcoin take longer to recover the price.

In a most decentralized and largely confined market, the value of popularity is promising for price increases. Holding is the best way to increase your profits over time. Of course, with the consciousness and thought of each person, the profit goals set out are different and form the different fluctuations.

They are holding surely because they don't want to make any unecessary move such as selling which might cut their potential profit in the future.a they are also awared that dumps are not permanent is a completely normal thing in cryptocurrency. The hope and expectations that the market will always recover is what gives the idea of holding to earn profit.

As I think, the infrastructure for Bitcoin is so small that we can use it in our common life. When there will be more regulation and we will be able to use debit cards, Bitcoin will become payment system. But right now it is speculation assets and good investment opportunity.

Everyone just holding their bitcoin. Because Now bitcoin's prize is too low. But in future it's prize become rise. When its prize become rise everybody sell their bitcoin. For this reason everybody just holding their bitcoin.

Holding is always the best thing to do when there is a huge dump in the market of prices because most of the new traders are selling their coins at the lowest price because they are scared to lose more profit but they did not notice that they will just lose their investment since the prices in the market will still go back to normal.

But anyway I think.. not everyone is just directing it to invest only, in some countries that have legalized it as a legitimate currency to buy something.. of course it's not only intended for invest, invest and invest every time, surely the various advantages of it.. it can be used for the other things that are useful in everyday life as a complement to the necessities of life that can compete with the common currency.

Since there have no elective choice to get back benefit and furthermore have the have confidence in Bitcoin that soon the cost will recuperate so the Investor hold the coin. There has no alternative without offer and nobody would prefer not to offer with lose. So what would it be advisable for us to do either offer or hold? Holding the coin will be shrewd capable errand.
There likewise truth that if everybody hold the coin how the cost will increment as indicated by free market activity. It's important to pitch the coin to get benefit in light of the fact that in the event that they offer than the financial specialist contribute on it and the cost will increment once more. Either Its very baffled news that the cost of bitcoin take more time to recoup the cost.

Why all hold up? Because all do not want to lose bitcoin, by selling its bitcoin, at a cheap price, so it's better to hold bitcoin until its price, back up than it has to get, big enough losses when the price is cheap, and that's what its investment name .

Yes I agree with you only holding is not the solution to increase the value of btc on the contrary in the current market selling will also not help btc. We should use btc regularly where we can buy things from btc. It should be use in mainstream. But I usually convert my btc to fiat to meet out all my expenditure.

Hodling is the only thing you can do with Bitcoin.  since Core broke it, nearly all the functionality is gone.  So - simply hodl.  It is the only thing to do with Bitcoin.  Ethereum has applications.  Bitcoin Cash works with the merchant.  Bitcoin is Hodl only.  This was done by design.  You can thank Blockstream

I'm just waiting for the price hit 100,000$ :P
If you're an old trader that buying some bitcoin in 2012-2015 , Then you know what will happen in next year .... so keep holding is the way you will earn more

they know bitcoin will rise in price, now when buying a lot of bitcoin prices again down the next bitcoin will rise in price.

I beilive that,they still holding because soon the price of bitcoin will be rise and it will progress soon.We should consider that it is challenges they encounter nor it is a good motivation to work hard.So that it will be more grow fast.

What else do you want us doing if not to hodl BTC,  we bought coin when it was $19k and now it's worth about $6k,  holding bitcoin just simply means that you haven't lost it yet.  Until you sell your coin,  it cannot be seen as a lost since you still have the btc equivalent of the token.  So I will advice all those planing to sell off to keep on holding their btc until we break for the.

There is no way for you to grow your coins even more if the price in the market is dumping or decreasing and the only way for to not lose your investment even more is to hold your coins rather than selling it at the lowest price.

Everyone is holding because holders are always get more profits then day traders because this market has huge volatility and if you are a holder then you ignore volatility and never sell in panic and achieve your target at one point.

sometimes just for fun, no major reason at all lol

We all know that the price of bitcoin will rise again and it will become more expensive and I think it is a valid reason why they hold their bitcoin. Furthermore, holding of bitcoin is one of the best way to earn huge income.

Yeah i will agree.Today is better to hold our profits which is coin because this is not the right time to sell with it because the crypto coins is not in normal priceat the moment.

Everyone is hodling because they don't have a choice and they don't want to just lose money by selling it to a lower price and they are just waiting and hodling their coin because they know that they can recover their losses once the market goes up again or goes back to normal because this is just a normal bearish trend in the market.

Hodling is easier task to do in investing in crypto but with high risk. And many are bag holder because many have bought on 19k ATH on january and believe that crypto will comeback. If they sell it now it will incur lose.

I think it's a smart decision if we hold the bitcoin and there's no way we'll sell it for now because it's too cheap, especially for those who buy bitcoins at high prices late last year I'm sure they will also be patient to hold their bitcoins so they can get a profit maximum

Imagine buying  bitcoin at $18,000 and someone is now advising that I sell bitcoin at the current price of $6000 in the name of using it as a legal tender.
I certainly will soon be out of circulation and be declaring bankruptcy.....
Think over it again dude

The price of bitcoins today in the market is rapidly decreasing and there is not reason to sell your coins so just keep on holding your coin and do not eager to sell in order to evade of losing a huge amount of investment.

The current market is fluctuating quite strong so I think at this time should be long-term investment is a safe choice. Currently I am seeing the market showing signs of a very good recovery.

This is the easiest strategy and in many cases, it works
For example as now, there was an opportunity to buy for 6600, I think it's necessary HODLING right now till the end os summer

this decision is rather stupid. For example, in the morning you can afford to buy bread and butter, and in the evening you will have enough money only for the package)

Certainly that is the reason of why almost people with bitcoin are holding, because no one wants loses so there is no reason to sell bitcoin at this dive, I think we are here in crypto to gain more profit and not just to get lose from our investment.

Firstly, at present bitcoin is not a currency for day-to-day purchases and cannot become on without higher level solutions (like Lightning Network). Not enough capacity. Secondly, it is a very good long -term investment instead (of course, past performance does not guarantee future gains).

We're just holding bitcoin because we believe that the price of bitcoin will increase again. No one wants to sell it now because we want big profit, we came here to earn, not to lose profit. I think holding now is our best option because i believe that bitcoin price will increase again. I suggest that we just need to trust and wait patiently for the increase of bitcoin price, for us to earn big profit.

I think the market is on the upward trend. So if you buy it and keep it for a week then it's likely to bring us a lot of profit. And if you want to make more money then I think you should keep them within a month.

As a bitcoiner at the same time a bounty hunter I am positive in the status of bitcoin right now. Yes! as we observe it is still down but I know that sooner or later it will pump again. Bitcoin will be back to its original price. Bitcoin will go up, up and will go to moon. That is the reason why I am holding right now because I know the altcoins I have right now will boost to 1 dollar and more.

You have your point, I am holding too because I rely on it. Tge bounce back of bitcoin peice is going bigger for the near future. Holding is a good strategy if you would like to become spontaneous in searching and collect datas that probably use for the success of the the campaigns. The true holder is you believe that the result will be positive and to do so the outlook will be.

In this long experience, investment encryption should be long held rather than short-term.

so that you understand and know the pattern in your investment must be directly involved. that's the only way you can understand. of course it requires process and more knowledge, you need knowledge and broad insight to understand in crypto world and investment speculation.

Mainly because hodling does not require experience or skills, you just need patience and faith in the blockchain technology. Hodling to me is something more than just a chant to encourage people to not panic and sell during the bear market. Hodling is a strategy that I have used for the last few months and has continued to benefit me more than trading.If Wall Street can’t beat this volatile market, what makes you think you can? Trading is just like any other profession that requires years of training. If you pretend to be one, you will get rekt.

People are HODLing their bitcoins because the market price is not convincing and everybody if after profit nowadays. Many people buy bitcoins when the price is a little bit higher and if they sell now they might lose their money instead of profits, so why the hurry? peoples should wait for the right time to sell in order to make some profits.

Sometimes there is a need we can not refuse. making people panic and selling their assets. actually if we are smart in financial management certainly will not panic

Hodling, in my opinion is one way to make the markets recover quickly. Once the markets recover, the price could begin to go up and the prospects of new entrants increases.

Indeed. Many people believe that the price of bitcoin will rise again and I think it is the main reason why they hold their bitcoin. On the other hand, high income is also the reason why they hold their bitcoin. Holding and being patience is one of the key to success.

For me, everyone is just holding their bitcoin because the value of it is very meager compared to its previous amount in the last December. We all know that bitcoin’s cost right now is in the decreasing season because for some reasons like banning bitcoin by some big companies. Also, most of the people know don’t want to make a mistake to sell there bitcoin at a low amount or unprofitable.  :)

I hodl a lot because working out what is going to happen to the market next takes a lot of time and emotional energy. The way I see it is if I don't sell I don't loose anything because I'm in this for the long term.

you immitate the bankers arogance that divides the society, in haves and have nots, you try to find an idiot that gives away something valuable for something you made out of nothing. i wonder how you will deal with a world of several thausand cryptocurrencies.

regards

Please correct the spelling of Holding in your heading.
 
My point of view why is everyone just Holding Bottom of bitcoin is not that much low and still we who ever is having bitcoin are very much confidence that very shortly Bitcoin will bounce back and will give big returns to its investor. This is the only reason why everybody is holding.

We are holding our bitcoin now because the price drops. For me, there are reasons why bitcoin price drops. Bitcoin price drops because bitcoin is volatile and thats normal, it will increase again after months. Bitcoin drops price because of the bad news spreading on the social media, and i think big whales is part of that, so that they can harvest bitcoin from the panic seller, for them to earn big profit when the price of bitcoin increase.

arent you afraid that there will be thausands of cryptocurrencies, better tech basis, lower tx fees

maybe you are just loosing value becauce there is no attention monopoly for bitcoin anymore thats what i belive.

and that was expecatble as those started doing it, immediatelly did it again and again etc.

maybe that only a few choose to hold bitcoin, it could be because they hold bitcoin to reduce their losses in the trade, I prefer cut loss if my prediction is wrong, because holding bitcoin long time is not profitable, better bitcoin we got used

Because all very fascinated by stories from those who bought bitcoin or spots few years ago and simply waited, enduring the all racing and now can considered themselves naporyadok richer.

It's simply because they wanted to earn high through hodling and sell only their bitcoin or altcoins at a higher price. Hodling for me is patience and trust, it is patience because we have to wait at the right time inorder achieve good profits by waiting the rise of cryptocurrency at the market. Also it is trust for me because we will not hodle and not to sell at a lower price if we don't trust our investment crypto coins.

Because bitcoin is just like a stock market that will benefit more in the future, so they are just keep holding it, you will not see the importance of it now since you can still afford to buy it but if you don't hold for sure that would be our biggest regret in our life.

HODLING is like fake hype nowadays!  I don't like HODL anymore. yes, You may earn profits by hodling your coins. But if you go for Live trading and if even try to learn Trade then don't hodl! I am now in huge loss by hearing HODL is GOLD fake hype!  ;D

Good Luck Mate.

The speed of bitcoin transactions is artificially constrained as digital gold is made of it. You don't count on gold in the store, do you?)))

Because all know bitcoin can be more than now, maybe a lot of slanted news that says bitcoin will fall and not worth it, but it's just their conspiracy to be able to buy bitcoin at a cheap price. I suggest you HODL your bitcoin.

A lot of people from bitcointalk are holding their bitcoins because it seems that they understand the value of Bitcoin and believe that it might be worth multiple times more than it is today. It has both advantages and disadvantages. More and more people want to buy BTC but who is going to sell it to them? For now miners do it but it might change once Bitcoin adoption grows and block reward becomes really small. Try to spend some of your bitcoin earnings or at least give some to your friends.

I agreed with OP. However many of us feel that Bitcoin price will rise and prefer to hold instead of spending now. If I have the chance, I don’t mind spending some bitcoin to support the Blockchain.

Most of the people know the information for the coin list. Coin price is not stable. So this information help to gather more information from market place. It good time to invest. It connect the people. So people share the information. This information reach the all country people it time to sell the coin. All coin is reach the all country people. Market place is help to reach the all country. Time is important to complete the process.

Because only HODLing can guarantee stable profit in long-term period in cryptocurrencies market. Also HODL can help you to correct your mistakes with your investments.

Most people bought it when it was historically high, and now selling it does not make any sence as they would have big losses. Therefore, now, most people HODL hoping the crypto market will be back to normal. But, nobody really knows whether the market will be back to normal any time soon...By normal I meant the price of BTC before February 2018 slumping.

I think what you say is true and I agree with you. But I think those who wait are natural. Everyone in business no one wants to lose, surely they want a profit. And they think, waiting is the right decision for now. Although the wait is very boring, but they will be patient to live it.

You might be eight. But people are thinking market will be raise again. So they are holding. They want to make profit as well. No one want to loose .so they are holding

Your point is right but i want to clear the point that holding does not add more value to your existing amount but most of the people cash out their profits by selling their coins. And some do panic selling out of fear. But most of hodlers hold it because they know that when more people and agencies will accept it the prices will surge giving them profits what exactly they want.

Probably you might have bought when the price is steep and dumping today will make you lose more money instead of gaining profit. Second reason is that as investment, you look at bitcoin for long term hold to maximized your profits. And we have reading a lot of stories that they just hold on it and waited like 2-3 years and are just selling with bitcoin at top price.

Some people  knows the potential of a coin, and bitcoin nowadays is not yet totally being implemented as a currency in real life, as there is still little merchant who accept bitcoin. The scarcity of bitcoin and its fix supply made it more precious to hold, cause we all know in the long run the price rise til the last block is mined. But not everybody hodl, as there are more swing traders in here.

Actually I am not holding all of my btc. I am trying to sell some of them and wanna make some asset for my next generation. After my death they canbenjoy with it. I also tell my children's about it. So they can earn after my death. And I want to make something for my future genaration

Holding your bitcoin becouse it's price drop. It is a simple policy that when the coin has been drop, hold your coin. I think After few week, the price  will increase again . So everyone thinking at the moment for hold.

I agree with OP. Not everything in the mind of a bitcoiner should be limited to the idea of "Hodling" as the only way to handle our bitcoins. I personally have not had too many problems in using my bitcoins to cover my daily expenses, because the most frequent use I have given to bitcoin is as a means of payment.

However I am aware that bitcoin has become an interesting investment tool for many due to its great potential in the medium term, that is why these moments in which the market has remained quite bearish, I have stopped spending my bitcoins waiting a rebound in the medium term to increase the purchasing power of my btc.

Most of the people have been holding bitcoin in the hope that the market would recover soon. Every body has seen what has happened to bitcoin last year, when the price of bitcoin rose under 1k to 20k, which has caused many people to become rich quickly. So, people are expecting bitcoin would repeat the same.

they know bitcoin will rise in price, now when buying a lot of bitcoin prices again down the next bitcoin will rise in price.

People hold because they believe that the coin they are holding is undervalued at that particular moment. E.g. If they're holding BTC at $10,000, that means that they believe it will be worth a great deal more than $10,000 in future. At which point they will either re-evaluate their holding or continue to hold to wait for another checkpoint.

Some people does not have the time to do trading because of the nature of their work, so they prefer holding to a potential coin rather than nothing at all, which is a great idea for as long as bitcoin and eth in top of their list.

Where do the bitcoins come from?
Would you keep an extra program on your computer that does not give you anything? Hardly. Therefore, the program "encourages" those users who keep the whole system on their computers. It encourages them to issue virtual "points" (or points), which are called bitcoins.

That is, this is an interesting phenomenon. The program does nothing useful. It "lies" on users' computers and gives them virtual money for the fact that it lies there. At the same time the program issues its points for a reason.

The whole system has a limitation. It can give out only 21 million virtual points (bitcoins), and none more. At the same time every day new and new users connect to the program. And do you know what is the only action programmed for this system? It complicates the reception of bitcoins if the user gets too many. Or vice versa, it simplifies if they suddenly become smaller.

Yes everyone hold bitcoin because everyone wants to explore bitcoin because bitcoin can give us better future.

Been hodling for about 5 years and the money I have today I won't be able to save in 10 years. So hodling has proven to be a good long-term strategy for me.

if bitcoin rate will go up then you will know the answer from Hold, now token rate also soar, there is more than 100%

By the way seeing how the value changes so fast, how can people start seeing bitcoin as a currency for everyday spends and not as an investment?

It's good to hold the coin if the market is Red. I can hold a coin as long as it takes the price of it to rises because i like to be profitable.

There are a lot of people who are replacing the bitcoins to local exchange. The crypto us booming becs. People are in good financial possesion. The countries economy is increasing due to unemployment reduction. We can now buy our needs. There are  Some who are holding becs. They want more profits.

At present it looks like market has begun its restore. So holding is the really best strategy at present  :) Personally I will not sell coins now, I will hold it further

People expect Bitcoin to become worth a lot in the long run. They are not just holding an asset, they are keeping it for the long term gain

For me everyone just HODLing because it is the right way of as  a trader because you have to be patience and hodl your coin at its highest price then it will be worth to sell.

I belong to those who are holding their bitcoin.  The price right now is the reason why i am still holding my bictcoin.  I wanted to keep it and wait for more increase that may happen soon.

in my opinion the reason the investment holds their bitcoin is primarily the reason because it is definitely bitcoin is in a state of descent and they already know also that bitcoin will soon rise to provide a satisfactory advantage for them

people will start to use transaction coins day to day when it becomes easy and cheap to do so. otherwise they will continue to use FIAT. this is bound to happen though as crypto goes mainstream but not yet and btc may not be the coin that does it. there are problems with btc being a day to day use coin. so i think btc will remain an investment and trading coin for quite some time. It will break into society for large purchases first because of the blockchains advantages re fees. houses , boats whatever.

That's cuz the market it's going down to get a abrupte raise and get stable when the cryptocurrencies are more globalized
and nobody want to lose money (well, but it shouldn't be extremely "HOLD")

Because we want to profit. definitely we won't to loss our money.you know now bitcoin price everyday dumping.if now i sell my bitcoin then I got huge loss.so already i got Top and still holding with my bitcoin as the long term.i have good believe with the bitcoin. I know bitcoin price will go up moon.

Everybody is holding bitcoin, as they have trust in bitcoin. They know that it has got a very high potential and it would start to increase soon.

why they hold it down because now the price of btc when you've got someone buy at a cheap price but when it comes three months it will increase the price of btc so they hold

Everyone is holding for their situation, those has purchased  at high price, they are holding for recovering and those have purchased at low price, they are holding to gains the maximum profit.

BTC  and other viable Altcoin are value potentially,reason why it is advisable to Hold as the  price generally is low,note that it is not everyone that is holding,Alot of dumpers are  still dumping because of fear and panic sell

they hodl acoins because all coins in market is low and the holders lose over 50% of their coins so they hold because in few months bitcoin and altcoim will raise the price again.

Everyone has their own strategy in managing their bitcoin investments. Some prefer to hold it for a long time because they are still waiting for the perfect time when bitcoin will hit a high value. We gain profit from the difference on the fluctuating values.  That's why it wise to hold bitcoin sometimes.

Until now I still hold the bitcoin I have, even though for the past 4 months I've lost half of my assets, but I'm sure bitcoin will definitely come back, go up at a high price, and that will make me, have far-reaching results more.

If you checked bitcoin value graph then you will never ask this question. Bitcoin is one of the popular and fast improving crypto in crypto market. So if you buy bitcoins now on the current rate the return will depends on the increasing rate of bitcoin. So as per the value hike your investment cost also grow with it.

People hodl in the hope of what they have will be worth significantly more in years to come. Nobody wants to spend bitcoin for it to be worth twice as much in a few months. I was in a shop and seen that they accepted crypto and asked if anyone bought anything with crypto he said no one but at least there was an opportunity to.

Bitcoin tends to reward more to those who hodl. Also trading isn't for everyone and most of the people end up losing their investment by trading so the best option for them is to hodl and be relaxed. Also hodling helps you stay calm and patient while avoiding going into panic every time the price takes a dump.

because everyone knows that bitcoin is going to get a big increase

but yep, I use it as a cryptocurrency to trade with another coins

The simple answer is people holding Bitcoin because of they want to make profit. They buy at low price then hold it until the price of Bitcoin increased. But unfortunately i'm not Bitcoin holder I am trying to sell because of it's need patient but i can't! ;D

Everything is very simple!
The majority of holders are waiting when bitcoin grows to 250k-1kkk $!
And I think that it's not long to wait!

every one just holding because after some months its prices increases rapidly and they get more profit.

I'm still believed in Bitcoin, I know Bitcoin again come back good price. I am a holder with the Bitcoin. Many people do it buy Bitcoin,When have been price $15k plus.so now their do not sell Bitcoin. Because this is lossing time.so we do not want to loss.we want to profit. Bitcoin price will go up I have confidence. So their people keep holding Bitcoin because their recover lossing money.

Bitcoin has a volatile value and if you are looking forward to earn large amount of profit right now, you should keep on holding and wait until the value rises once again. I've seen a lot of people who ended up regretting after panic selling due to the sudden dumps occuring. If you don't want to be like them, be patient and believe that the value of bitcoin will soon rise again.

The price of Bitcoin now lower than before. so people are holding.as long as Bitcoin being established as a payment system people will prefer holding Bitcoin. they do not only hold them but also sell their Bitcoins for fiats. Again some believe that one day the price will increase and reach a considerable phase. so they are waiting for that time and holding their Bitcoin.

You should not be surprised anymore from those people who are holding their bitcoin. It might be selfish but it is one of the most strategic way to earn more money. Here in bitcoin, if you are going to be impatient, regrets and disappointments will surely end up on your side. So to avoid all of the misfortunes, you should hold too your bitcoin for the greater good of your investment here.

or drops, like it happened in 2018 (and some years ago, but that was different)

But on overall yes, it does grow, when you invest, your investment grows over time.

When you use it, you don't notice. Like I had a wallet with some change I forgot about, around 80 cents, and one day, I found the address, looked it up and realized it was around 25 bucks.

There seem to be different reasons for holding by different people.
Small investors who bought @ very high prices can not afford to bear heavy losses .  So they are waiting prices of BTC to rise at least the level they purchased. They would like to exit at those rates.
Big investors and speculators would be trying to pull down the prices further down to the earth.  Then they may start heavy buying and holding to push up the market.  After they succeed in making positive sentiments the prices will again moov up and only then they will play the strategy of sell the holdings.

You are a member in bitcoin forum after that also you still don't know about the bitcoin holdings nessossity, its really strange to me.Whatever it maybe bitcoin is a crypto currency the rate of bit on defers as per the market demand. Because of it's popularity and loyalty among crypto fielders its demand get increasing now so holding bitcoins gave bitcoiners a huge return from your holding investments.

True, its either you wait and wait or earn big from your investments, a true holder should never have to cut loss as their option and should be willing to wait patiently for its investments to earn a huge percentage before actually selling it. We have to remain firm and stick to our set goals regardless of the current events in the cryptocurrency market.

It is depend on the holders when to let go their holdings because they trust that their holdings with a good result and bring wealth to them, many people now are getting rich in crypto because they hold of their trusted token for long period of time and that's lead them to success, just think positive.

Because i buy at a high price =)). Many people, like me buy many crypto at high price. One of reasons is a new- that many people tell about Bitcoin: "Bitcoin is 25000 $/1btc at Q1 2018, and more in 2019,ect". We believe in bitcoin and buy them early. And the trust is... I think you know =))

I will hold BTC and altcoin until end of 2018 ^^

Btc demand in the crypto world is widespread.Everyone rides behind profit.Btc is good for long time investment.And long time investment is to hold on.That's why everyone is just holding.

Holding bitcoin would be depend, if you are after the income in the present then it is necessary for you to trade bitcoin but if you are after the income for your future then holding is a better way, and you can do both things at time, so just do them both if you have time.

i think there are 2 reason in this case when people buy it in a high price during price fall people will be panic so they  want to hodl or another one for longterm investing

The OPs question was why are people holding the cryptocurrency and not using it as described in the original manifest. He is suggesting that people use it for transactions and not whether the price will bounce or otherwise. Anyway, the OPs question has already been answered by some of the other replies.

Everyone who knows how to read the market, the annual cycle, graphics and other analysis then they will still hold all the assets they have. They believe that in the future Bitcoin will rise to the previous level, even many experts predict at the end of 2018 Bitcoin will touch the price of $ 30,000.

Probably,most of the people are holding because they don't want to miss the chance of earning bigger profit in the future given that the market value of Bitcoin is continuously growing.  Bitcoin is not yet legal to most of the countries so there are still people who are limited to not be able to use it as a currency. So investment is their way of making use to Bitcoin and there's nothing wrong with that.

In this long experience, investment encryption should be long held rather than short-term.

Hodling indeed does not add anything to bitcoin, that's a fact. The community should further develop bitcoin, so the value increases. But that's easier said than done. On the other hand hodling bitcoin and hope the price will skyrocket looks like the easiest way to make profits, but that could be nerve wrecking.

The speed of bitcoin transactions is artificially constrained as digital gold is made of it. You don't count on gold in the store, do you?)))

holding is number one priority to all traders and investors if you want to no lose your investment.
that is my only option to defend my capitalize in the cryptocurrency. ;D

I still beloeve that bitcoin will go up again because bitcoin is now getting popular and more investors will come.

Bitcoin areas at a high price to wait to raise prices in order to make money.
The prices were very low. Those who invested in Bitcoin were hurt. If you want crypto money at low price they can sell.

Bitcoin is the market leader and most influential in crypto market.And it is the most popular crypto currency worldwide.Yet, a long long way to go. But, we should not be emotional towards bitcoin that it will be No1. Rather we should focus on its prospects and potentials like block chain technology decentralized nature etc.If we consider the future prospect of bitcoin in light with it's current position, demand, technological features and long term potential, certainly long term investment in bitcoin is better.Thats why everyone is trying to hold it.

Everyone is not just HODLing as you said. If everybody is doing that, you will hardly see people selling bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies and as a result they will become very scarce and the price will go up tremendously. As we speak, you will see several sell orders of various cryptocurrencies but where holders are recklessly selling, there will be an issue of price fall. The fiat money we often spend also has to be scarce for it to have value.

I remain in the same belief, since price of the tokens were slowly incrwasing I believe Bitcoin will be after the same thing, and working hqrd than complaining is something worth it than being in the Blockfolio checking the price from time to time, cause the opportunity becomes lesser and people here were getting bigger and that's because Bitcoin is now being popularized in social media and televisions.

Because everyone believes that bitcoin will recover its former highest price and it will greatly affect their investments positively with a possible returns of more than 200 percent of their investments if they wait for that particular moment so instead of just panicking and selling their bitcoins they tend to just wait and hold for the market to turn green.

I believe that not everyone is HODLing, as people are scared. Well, I am a big believer and I am HODLing, if you don't feel comfortable you should probably decide what you want to do next

bitcoin revolution changes over time. yes, basically as you say. become a transaction tool like local currency generally. but time has changed and bitcoin causes to be a very profitable business. the demand for the market is getting bigger because that's why many people want to keep it for higher value.
and this is very reasonable not if you want to profit from the engagement on an investment or trade.

People keep bitcoin because they think that bitcoin will continue to rise in price for a day, and they realize that bitcoins are not worth the price they are now so they do not want to sell the bitcoin and want to keep it.

Hold is a way to maintain price levels to limit volatility in the crypto market - the market has decentralized supply and fluctuates over time by the needs of users and investors. Fluctuate in a downward or upward trend. The hold is highly effective and it shows the best way to maintain and bring profit in the crypto market. In addition, holding will limit all effects from FUDs or pumps and other factors.

of course not wanting to lose their money. of course there is hope to be able to rise again so they still continue to HODling.

I can see what point you are trying to make but seriously you need to work on your mathematics and understanding of percentages, it will surely help you with your investments in the future. 19,000 down to 7,000 is about a 63% loss a 100% loss would be $19,000 to $0  :)

Many people just holding, the main reason for every people is that there is no other ideal strategy but just holding since the price in the market was very unfavorable and it was very low, so they hold only for not have losses on trading or selling.

Everyone is holding their coins in even though there are time that the prices are so hopeless because they are hoping that somewhat, the prices will be rising in the future making them a great fortune. I think this is the main reason why holders do this/.

Yes everyone os hodling BTC even if the price is dip because they are hoping the price will get high and they will have future in BTC if they hodl it for a long-term investment. Many don't want to loose tjeir money that they used to invest in BTC. If they sell it right away they will still earn but not that big. That is why many are hodling their BTC for a food value.

I believe that everyone is just holding because of the fact that the value of the coins they hold is not good enough yet for it to be profitable. It is actually a wise move rather than wasting the capital spent in buying those coins or the efforts made in earning them. One must always have patience in the world of crypto.

Everyone are holding, because the price of every coin now are low so they are waiting the price of every coin to increase, so they can get more profit when they sell it.

I think at this time very much do to hold the coins they have because they probably already know if sell at the current price is too cheap and they do not want to sell a loss so they better hold the coin they have rather than sell it.

As long as the price is volatile and bitcoin is not used in payment systems, people prefer to hold their bitcoins. Even if they sell bitcoin, usually they don't sell it to buy something, they sell it for fiat.  Because they want to cash out their profit or they are panic selling.
Using bitcoin as a currency is great. But in my country I cannot use it to buy things. And I think most of the countries are same as my country.

Almost everyone might not have a high btc balance mostly in alts so no one will go and spend their btc as everyone knows that btcs price potential is extremely high. On the bright side there has been a decline in panic selling which has helped btc to tackle fluctuations. 

Most often talk about the HODL but for each its own boundary. Everything depends on many factors and it is not necessary to reduce everyone to the same level unequivocally.
Everyone has his own minimum at which he starts draining the accumulated.

Because i believe in the modern technology and new way of making transactions easy to all..

in as much as it is a currency, and should be traded or exchanged. no one wants to do trade by batter, everyone wants to make profit. and one of the ways we can make this profit is by Hodling for value to increase.

I believed that Bitcoin price rise again so this is the right time to buy Bitcoin and hold it

Everybody screams HODL. But in reality it's not always the most profitable strategy, and some clever people use it to earn money. Before you follow the trend, think carefully. What is the purpose of this person?

Bitcoin is a digital currency or perhaps, a cryptocurrency. Many people are not able to use it as its function in the first place due to lack of legalization to most of the countries. Only those who are living in countries where bitcoin is legal, are the ones who will make use of it as a currency. But for those where it is not yet legal,investing and holding are their ways of making use to it to earn profit.

It is a simple answer; because we are trust Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is not a property that can make you rich overnight. We are here supporting a digital economic revolution.
See the potential behind Bitcoin underlying technology. It's huge deal. It can solve many problems that we cannot imagine before.
So, stay with Bitcoin. Give it some time to be mature enough to be adopted (in daily life). Once it there, Bitcoin will be huge.

IN THE MEANTIME GET SOME REWARDS TOKEN! GREAT CONCEPT!!! :D

The cryptocurrency market has a lot of potential and value so many investors know and invest a lot in this market. Compared with other financial markets such as Forex and stock market cryptocurrency is still very small so I am very confident that in the future the pace of development is very strong.

to my mind it is the most safiest  strategy on this market, everyone reasonable   businessman calculates money  and dont want to sell with losts))))

indeed hodling is better, making calm and slow decision in need is way better than make some rush way and going loss for what you have it, and some time holding when you buy in low price and maybe next year it will make a big pot for you

Your arguments is valid in theory but in practice NO, it dont work that way. Everyone is holding because most alternative currencies for instance are based on a value of a project or company like stocks based on performance of a company. People are holding , because, with regard to the roadmap provided by the team, holders think, their crypto coins that are undervalued will rise and have value when the team is able to accomplish the task that is set forth in the roadmap and eventually raised the value of the coins up.

Because now the most correct solution is to save your accumulations! On the fall, it's very dangerous to trade, With improper and unwise actions, you can lose most of your assets!

Everyone is holding crypto currency because it has  a potential of doubling or tripling anyone investment if only he or she has patience to wait for the crypto currency to yield a good return.

We must be careful and do not listen to others always. Everyone should determine what to do in the best time to prevent loss, This does not prevent the presence of trustworthy persons , And people who hold bitcoin certainly have reasons and aspire to the future rise of the bitcoin

You have some solid points.
But there are few problems with spending thru BTC or other any cryptos, there are not many vendors which accept btc or alts.
Also everyone wants to make a quick buck and day traiding can make you cry like a baby very easily thus the HOLDING strategy.

We are hodling our cryptocoins because we really believe that it will continue to rise more in the market. We all know that cryptocurrency price increase is not yet over, we hodl because we want to earn higher and to be profited more when bitcoin rise so high again at the market. Hodling needs trust and patience.

Unfortunately, it would appear that it's not really worth trying to spend your BTC right now until adoption becomes more mainstream. Ultimately, this will mean larger corporations getting involved in cryptocurrency. And I honestly don't think we're too far off that.

Once corporations such as Mastercard and Visa accept BTC, or large online vendors such as Amazon (I think we're really close there), that will coincide with a massive price hike in the value of major cryptocurrencies and perhaps even result in discounted goods when paying in BTC and LTC

I hold bitcoin because I still have confidence and belief that bitcoin will experience a fairly rapid price increase and of course can bring big profits for me

In my case, still have a believe for future usage & value...

Near future, Most of people & Machines & facilities will connected with smart contract run by coins...

Everyone keeps on holding their bitcoin because the price is still decreasing,better hold for long term so that we have a great return soon.

I think it should take a few more years to fully use bitcoin. When the market reaches its limits of capitalization, will cease to give as many X as it gives now, we will start to use cryptocurrencies for business.

WELL. the whole holding idea reduces the number of Bitcoins, or the coin held in circulation in the market.Little flow of supply in the market with high demand leads to increase in prices hence valuation, Most people hold to add value to their coins, while others do it for greed.

HODLing of Bitcoins have actually helped in its price value hike to some extent. But this can be frustrated if a major hodler dumps what he has. In all, hodling is just a theoretical believe that it will help pump the price.

Yeah you're right we need to buy some of other coin but we cannot others that want to hold their bitcoin or coins because some of them is scared to try it mostly to new in crypto.

People prefer to hold their coins because they know, the coins they hold will rise in price. Although in the long term. So people have to be confident with their chosen future.

Well what you're saying is true though but in my opinion i think HODLing also adds value to BTC. Many are hodling because very soon something big will happen. The market will start mooning and people will earn for HODLING

many people are holding their because they wait for the market value to rise so they can sell it at higher price.