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we keep the coins at least 5 years , but its too long imagination.  you can proof it. 2018 early NEM coin was top 6 Marketcap now 56. so keeping its useless. we have to updated everytime and get the action the correct time and exit.


Now i think bear market is going on , so holding for 4,5 years just a imagination. specially i have to say that TOP 5 coins , we must keep  most probebly they will surpass the All time high again.

what all your perspectives?

 

There are some people who can hold their coins for 5 years, yes that is really hard but it is still possible. One thing that makes to hold for a long term is that being impatience, hyped. There are times that when the coins that we are investing got hyped then we will go sell it, there is no wrong for this thing if you are talking about investing in a meme coin that just got high because of the hyped. When talking about investing for a long term, like investing bitcoin then it is really hard for us to do because there are times that bad things may happen to us and we don't have any choice but to pull out our investment.

Separating the wheat from the chaff is extremely hard in these altcoin spaces. It might be beneficial for you if you have a basic programming/technologies and cryptography knowledge in general. It will give you an advantage to know which project that lies their foundation to strive for the future instead of copy-pasting what been already made.

Why NEM? Hold BTC and ETH to see what happens in the next five years time, they never disappoints, the best coins to hold for many years to come is the king and queen of crypto, every other coins can lose it's position easily

It would take a great deal of discipline to hold a coin for 5 years, especially where you see the value getting higher. I guess the reasons why anyone may have held Nem for such a duration is simply because there's really nothing spectacular going on with the project and no increase in value. Its always more satisfying to sell your coin at a higher value

Holding Eth will be the best thing and favorable as a long term investment.

We all know that if you want to hold the coin you must have a good knowledge of his coin. So first gain knowledge about the coin then hold and if you hold without gaining knowledge you will eat a lot of big losses.

5 years might be a bit too long, but I try and hold my coins for 2-5 years. There are examples where holding wasn't a good idea and then there are examples where it made sense. For example doge coin or ether. What if we sold our coins last year? We would have missed out on so many profits. As long as there are no bad news coming out for the Coin I would just hold it.

Nem is still worth to hodl for 5 years, you can see it in their milestones. The top 5 coins maybe will not perform more aths but it will still be in the top rank as long as the developments nicely executed.

you don't have to buy the trend coin but the one you think is promising, the one that influencers don't tell you then you will have an advantage and over time it can shine ... do your research.

Yes, and it has been proven long ago, it's different from NEM tokens whose platform is not much interested so there won't be much change even though it's stored for a long time.

Even if we want to hold a coin for a long time we have to keep updated with the news of the coin that we hold, we cannot just leave it away without seeing any updates about the news, projects or any information about the coin. We have to choose a strong fundamental coin if we planned to hold a coin for a long time.

We can hold Bitcoin for such time period. But when it comes to the altcoins in the market, there are not many altcoins which assure people about it. Maybe altcoins like ETH and BNB can be tried for a long-term investment.

That's basically possible cause you're making reference to NEM coin which is an altcoin, tbh, not many people consider altcoins to be sustainable in the long term, and that's cause quite a lot of them are more or less pump and dump coins, thus if it's such coins you're talking about, then hodling onto them for too long could be counterproductive.

Having said that, if you want to be a long term holder, coins like NEM coin should not make up your portfolio, but Bitcoin and prolly ethereum if you want the inclusion of alts.

You're not to be doing that unless if you are sure that project will shoot like a moon. Because as we are in a volatile market, everything seems to be unpredictable and you can't also tell that in the next 4-5 years holding you will be in profit.
Either you believe me or not, that is actually the whole picture of this crypto market. Maybe you will just set it until the market turns to bullish again and take such an opportunity rather than to think about more.

That is clear, but what is being held must be really clear in terms of the community, volume, and market power through the large number of requests, because without it all, whatever the coin will also be bad, because the day the cryptocurrency competition will be more and more.

Of course we don't know which coin or token could triumph on the following years. Especially there are lots of improvement on different innovation being introduced. Tech being upgraded and some adoption are being seen. It's just that some are aggressively moving fast like polkadot, sushiswap, binance, avalanche and some of those new projects. It's normal actually, some being overtaken is just means of upgrade and degrade.

Don't look at the coin position on marketcap ranking because there's always a new coin that will appear and beat them even though there price is still the same. AFAIK, Nem already reach again there USD ATH last 2017. Holding a coin for 5 years depends on the coin itself you will hold. Most of the project has road map so you can use that for consideration when holding long term of a coin.

Everything can happen as for altcoins. Like you said, we saw many altcoins which were destroyed after some time. And we will continue to see this as most of the altcoins in the market are no more than just a shitcoin. I see really a few altcoins to think of HODLing.

We’re still in a bull market, this is just a correction although admittedly, a significant one. The bull market still has a long time to run. If you haven’t got the balls to hold for years then don’t but have fun staying poor.

I don't understand your argument. Even for NEM, if you held the coins for five years, your ROI would be attractive.

I hope that we are still in the bull market. Because it doesn't seem so. It seems like we are in a bear market right now. Bitcoin is suffering a big hardship while trying to climb up to the level above $40k.

If you will hold for 5 years the most top cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, Chainlink and Polkadot, you can get a huge profit, but you need to find a better time to invest in these cryptocurrencies in order to eventually get the maximum profit from your investments, but of course it is not necessary to hold your cryptocurrencies 5 years too, because perhaps in 1 or 2 years these cryptocurrencies will begin to grow to incredible heights and it will already be possible to start fixing profit, so everyone decides by himself when to sell his cryptocurrencies.

Well, you imagined that in the token that went down. Just imagine when you held bitcoin or ethereum for the last 5 years, didn't you have the advantage?
however, it depends what coins you hold. to be honest I have also held coins for years, and some of them are quite valuable for now. however, it all depends on which potential coin you choose. NEM may be a good coin, but I think ethereum's potential is much better than NEM.

You can be really right about this but I don't think the thing you said is true for every altcoin. There are really promising projects in the market. I'm not sure about holding for 5 years but these kind of projects can make people a lot of money in the long run.

If I want to decide to hold in 5 years, I will choice BTC because that look more safe than altcoin. Crypto market keep growing with different trend coming, when bull market on 2017 mostly the trend for privacy coin and smart contract platform but for bull market now, the trend of market for DEFI and memecoin. And if there are other next bull market in a few years could be the trend is different product. Too many competitor of each altcoin so that will be risky to hold it for long run like 5 years.

It's really difficult to hold coins for at least 5 years for those impatient and without enough funds or capital. But is it possible for those with a lot of capital because they don't need to rush their money back to their pocket. They are capable to hold it patiently and just forget their funds until 5 years. But holding for 5 years is depends on the type of coins that you are going to hold. Bitcoin and Ethereum is the best option.

maybe it was not long enough for you. maybe you are still not waiting for the next 5 years. if you are more patient you may get better but I do not recommend it. There are only a few suggestions that might make you calm because many people who have experienced things like that without getting the desired income.

My perspective? Just take a daily look in top 10 CMC. What stays in there and what's not.
I can tell you that the coins that stood there are for sure the one for the hodling with the exception of stablecoins of course because their price are stabilized obviously.
4-5 years of hodling is really a long time for a long-term hodling actually.

besides the top ten we can also make news and analysis as a reference in the future. some people cannot afford to hold long time, whether they are tempted by the benefits or there's often an urgent need

That should not be the case, it's ok to HODL but you must know when to let it go because with the way the market moves, you can always buy it back for every dip, the worst thing that can happen to the coins you're holding is to make ten times profit and you missed the chance to sell it, there is a limit on HODLING a coin and it doesn't have to take years, you have to take action and you need insight on every coin you are hodling.

You are only thinking in absolute terms. Let me tell you that NEM today is 150 times worth what it was pretty much 5 years ago. $10,000 in May 2016 would have given you $1.5 million today. In relative terms that doesn't sound like a bad investment to me. The people get to greedy. imagine a couple of years ago doubling your money in one year was crazy. Today people expect 1000x or it is a bad investment. :D lol man!

If you are talking about 5 years, then the NEM coin gave a huge profit, in 2016 the price of NEM ~ 0.005$ now the price in 2021 reached 0.8$  x150, of course there are few such people in 2016, few people knew about the cryptocurrency market. Most of the holders, probably since 2017, have not recouped their funds. But Hold is always rewarded, so you need to Hold

I think its a right time for us to buy more bitcoin and altcoins then hold for 5 years. I'm sure that the next bull run again will occur the next 3-5 years and it's gonna take long compared today. Holding crypto for 5 years is not easy for normal people who earn sufficient money everyday, there are times that they will test their financial situation where they need to sell their tokens. Its a test on how you will able to hold in the 5 years.

Crypto market situation changes all the time, if you want to get a lot of profit in the next 5 years, then you can choose more than 1 portfolio for the long term, Top altcoins are good for investing, but finding new altcoins for long-term investment is a bit difficult if you don't have time to analyze the market, take profits when the crypto market is down and wait a few months, then you will see profits coming faster than you can imagine.

IMO, I believe whales can hold crypto more than that period because they don't afraid to lose and if you're not a whale holding that 5 year period is considered a burden especially if your capacity as an investor is very limited another factor is we cannot sure what was the outcome after that 5 long years so to me I can't do that, to be honest.   

if you have that kind of trust then buying and storing your coin inside your safe wallet will allow you

to maximized the benfits, we all have oir own perceptions in terms of our investment goals, the example

from OP is also considerable, positioning inside the top 10 alts ain't secure as development keeps progressing

and those projects who survives and managed to gain more attention will jump up and surpass other old timer.

Even if you wanna be a long term holder and you must also regularly maintaining your portfolios. if you were not doing it and it will be ended like NEM.
People started to realize that if nem was a garbage coin and they have been starting to leaving it alone.
Top 5 coins have very strong fundamental  but remember that anything can happen in the cryptocurrency and why?
The fact that so many people in this market are only aiming for the short term profit.

It's better to keep major coin if we are aiming to be a long term holder.

There are some who could hold it for that long it depends on how you would handle it.
I agree that it is better to check it from time to time to sell when it hits high and buy back at a dip but it isn't easy as it seems.
And holding for a long time is good if you know what to hold not all on the top list would always be on it so better choose carefully if you want to do it.

not only those of you who have experienced it, those who may have been doing crypto activities from 2016 are definitely the same ... it's better to keep going than just being sold at a very low price, because now the sending costs are very high and there are many tokens that are not on target..

Holding for 5 years is certainly not a short time and it certainly takes patience,
And if you want to do that as you say right now is the right time to buy coins,
what is clear it all depends on the decisions of each

Agree. The two most appropriate choices for people who want to store their assets for 5-10 years, five years is a long time to hold coins. For long term investment in crypto, I think you have to monitor the coin's progress continuously. You can search for the community group or follow the project's social media, so you can know when the project is no longer suitable to hold.

Yes, it is too long time. We should take a look on that coin atleast once per year. Because it is crypto Market everything is possible here. A coin can 100x in a day or -100x in a day. If you want examples you can look at shitcoins. Some shitcoins increased 100x in a day and after a big pump they dumped very hardly.

Well of course BTC and ETH are best for storing money for long term if you have a larger amount... I'm not rich guy so I rather put 100$ on some small cap projects and wait since there I have bigger chance of getting that x100 with of course larger risk.

The market is correcting after a long rally but i cannot view this as a bear market as i am still expecting that the market went down due to FUD by prominent people and they might have made huge profits. The market recovered after a deep crash but today the market saw huge selling pressure and we will have a clear idea what we should expect from the market in the coming days..

I am only planning to invest once the market is settled and there is no way i am going to take the risk of investing when everyone is booking their profit.

I sincerely envy those people who kept their coins for 5 years, now they can not worry about their income and feel as free as possible.
I am sure there are holders who have been holding coins for more than 5 years and every time they are convinced of the correctness of their choice.

I don't think the bear market already begins, just keep calm and see the next situation in the crypto market. The current dump in the prices of most crypto coins is actually caused by the drop in Bitcoin price. While the drop in BTC price seems very suspicious. I guess whales are playing with us, they are trying to fill their bags before the next pump in Bitcoin price. So, just don't hurry to decide to hold for 4.5 years.

It could be possible, rich people can do that but I don't know if that is a good decision knowing how volatile we are and we neither sure that in the next 5 years the market is in bullish.
I could make a hold for many years but such a time frame given is too long enough. For me, I ain't do that, if the bullish will had come earlier to that I have to sell my cryptos right away.

You are going to lose a lot of profit if you confine your coins to HODLING than not selling them at the right time, HODLING is good if you know the right time to sell it, investing in Cryptocurrency is like that buying and selling at the right time, something HODLING will not give you as an option to make a profit, so don't HODL blindly.

Don't be too pessimistic about current market conditions, I agree too early to mention that we are currently in a bear market. Since what is happening
to the crypto market right now is not the first time, the current downturn is not the end. Stay patient with current market conditions, I am sure that it
will not be long before the crypto market will recover soon. Don't give up on our goal of holding in the long term, successful investing in crypto must be
patient and optimistic.

It really require patience to hold that long and its riskier just make sure that you are aware of what’s happening about the particular project because sometimes the team abandon it without prior notice. If you go for a long hold don’t bag shitcoins.

Nem was one of my favorite coins here in cryptocurrency during its time of 2016, especially when 2017 came up were its highest peak price reached was 1$ almost but after 2017 bull run I began to decreased my belief on NEM, this recently IEO arise in this field of business in crypto space my belief on NEM was totally gone and transfer into other coins in which I think is better than NEM and one of this are Cake, UNI, MOMO, PANTHER, and GARUDA these are the token so far that I am holdings now for a year but not 5 years of course, instead 1 or 2 years only to hold.

We did not know that the current top 5 coins will be able to continue to maintain their position in the future, because business competition in this industry is so tight.  it could be that in the future there will be some new coins that are able to be in the top 5 positions so that they will be able to shift the position of the old coins that we will hold later.  holding for a long time can sometimes be profitable and can also reverse things beyond our expectations

I wonder why you hodl NEM coin for 4,5 years in which those coin define only for medium, and short term hodl while futuristic coins like BTC, ETH, BNB and ADA which has good scalability and profitability for future time you won't bought for long term hodl.

The only coin that I hodl for a long period of time is Ethereum, which I believe hasn't reached its potential in the market, I buy and sell coins like Bitcoin. for short term profit, you should only HODL coins that are not yet reached its potential in the market, Bitcoin price is moving up and down and it's good for short term profit, you should take some for short term and keep a portion for long term profit.

Yes it is like that but when talking about the top 5 coins I don't think it's easy to shift it,
even for bitcoin for me it will still be the king of cryptocurrency,
what is clear is that holding back for a long time is certainly not that easy because we must have high patience

It is true that we are seeing many altcoins going down at a very high rate even in a short time period. At this point, the most important thing to do is doing a very good research. Because there are really small amount of altcoins which can be trusted for HODLing.

I believe that this is why you have to understand if the project you want to Hodl for that long is worth the Hodl. Not all coins in Alst are good for hodling for that long, I will not personally Hodl outside Bitcoin and Ethereum for a long term because once I am sure that the bear market is in, all Alts are liquidated to stable coins.

I think that is not just imagination because I do not mind holding my coins for 4-5 years later. After all, that will be my investment in the long term. But I am sure that some coins can be a short term investment as I see that some coins can increase. Besides using the crypto as my investment, I will try to trade it and make a profit because I think some coins will have good movements in the market and not all of the coins will just stay at a lower price without any movements.

If you really want to hold coins for a long time then you can invest in coins that already have good prospects for example BTC or Eth. we know that the coin has been on a drastic increase in recent times and it will definitely be very profitable for coin holders. We all know that the crypto market fluctuates and that frustrates a lot of people. therefore it is important for us to be able to choose good coins to hold, especially to hold for a long time

Well when they were all going up at just as high a rate nobody was complaining, everyone was saying to the moon and to Mars and all that, very conveniently ignoring what a big bubble the altmarket (AND DEFI) was coming out to be also.

Hodling alts? The list did not change since 2017 in my opinion. Deficoins will all die.

Obviously that make sense. Holding is an art mate, you can't just be a sheep and follow the HODL group. We need to act different portfolio each quarter when the market is moving upward and downward. Thats the first step and it can give us clear indication which coin in our portfolio is messing up with us.

Keeping in mind that the roadmaps are plotted for couple of years to decade one can not just rely on small pdf document but the reality needs to be triple checked.

It's better to switch when the time is right or at least indications are right.

but many people also can hold that long even though it feels quite difficult to do. because it is not certain in the future that we think gold will now become gold. vice versa, what we think of as shitcoin will become shitcoin.
it is very difficult to choose gold in a haystack so we have to be really clever in choosing so as not to make the wrong investment

A fairly long time period, sometimes even two years is too much, you must always keep your finger on the pulse. I missed a lot of coins because of my work, because there was no time to monitor and analyze information.

Some People can do that because of their beliefs that soon there investment will be doubled. There is nothing wrong about how many years of holding, what matters most is the kind of coin your holding. It is better to know more about it and keep track every single day it's standing and every update for you to have the right investment.

I agree with you, because the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum will continue to increase very high, so it will definitely give us a big profits in the future, therefore I think Bitcoin and Ethereum are the right choice for long-term investment, because you will not be disappointed investing in Bitcoin and Ethereum for the long term (you will definitely get a big profit).

My perspective is one, how can you hold altcoins for five years without (At least) 4 years experience! We know that the top altcoins list can always be changed, but this time the top 3 are fixed. This time the Binance coin fixed third place. This I can tell you because I have a good time experience. You must be active without the top altcoins. During the proper time, you can change your altcoins. Now is the perfect time to invest, if anyone likes short time investment.

Even though I bought a lot of alts most of them are long time established projects, so it's time to wait and see when they start rising again.

In my opinion, if you can hold your coin for five years is a good thing because you can control yourself for not selling it in a good price but if you are losing hope just because the market is in bearish, that is not a good thing. Just keep holding it just like before and wait for the bullish market to come, that way I am sure that imagination of yours will become reality.

Holding a coin for five years is certainly not an easy thing because I think it takes patience,
but come back again if you can keep holding for five years of course there is nothing wrong with doing that,
what is clear it all depends on the decisions of each

Its not like that one will not touch its coins for 5 years if one has a plan to hold them for 5 years. Certainly one should always follow the development of the coin that he/she holds so that he will always know the progress of the coin. Not only Top 5 coins there might be some new project coins as well can also perform well. Strategies and planning change according to the market condition and one's liability.

It's not an imagination as there are investors who have successfully held that long, and they are enjoying their fortune now.

Being a holder, it's not necessary that you will hold forever, you can sell some when you see a good price as that's a way to reward yourself, however, if you are really strict with following your strategy, you can always hold and wait for 5 years, but still, the price that time matters as crypto's volatility will remain.

during that time I am not sure the assets we choose will be at the right moment.
predicting a feasible project in the market as long as it is possible to develop it can do it. but to predict good market conditions I'm not sure it can be done by everyone.
for the long term, in my opinion, the ideal one with a good asset is 2-3 years. find good momentum when ATH is reached and sell immediately, don't be too greedy.

For some people it is an imagination. Myself kept hold for about 3 years and sold during the previous bear market due to unavoidable situation. My plan was to make use after five years unlike the market situation. Right now one of my friend have begun his investment into cryptocurrency. He has planned for long term profiting, in simple terms he has started to invest little amount periodically on different altcoins. He has decided to make use of the investment by 2026.

Its been proven that not all altcoins are capable of enduring the dips, some once go down weren't able to go up again like what happens in many ICO projects before who turns out doing exit scam. Better watch out for all the coins your holding or move into safer and trusted coins that endure already many dumps but able to cope up after.

I purchased by first Bitcoin 9 years ago. I sold some of those coins during the last 3-4 years, but the majority of the original coins are still there in my wallet. And I would say this with 100% certainty - if you hold your coins for 5 years minimum, then there is no chance that you will end up with a loss (irrespective of the purchase price). Forget about selling at spikes and buying at dips, because it is easier to say but never practical.

My advice is this - just purchase your coins and keep them in cold storage. And then forget about them for the next 5 years. When you login to your wallet after 5 years, you will be surprised at how much the coins have appreciated (in terms of fiat currency). And the most important thing - don't check the exchange rates every 5 minutes. It will only make you nervous and vulnerable to panic selling.

yes i agree with you half. if you hodle a non performing or abondend project who knows. so btc and eth is ok but others we can not sure 100%

If you want to hold coins for 4-5 years long, altcoins are very risky to keep. Because they can drop down easily even when you least expect it. Yes, if that so, you can try shifting your coins and convert into bitcoin. This time, you will feel more confident to hold even more than 5 years i think. Because bitcoin no matter how often or long the dump season will be, it will always find way to recover and the best part is it's bount to set for its new ATH after it recovers.

True that, but sometimes alts can really, really surprise you. I bought some BNB when it just came out (I think I got a few as an airdrop too), and that was a very pleasant surprise. Same with few tokens I've decided to keep since ICO hype. Of course majority just went to hell but the remaining ones covered the rest and brought nice profits.

This advice is one that many new people that are yet not sure what they are doing SHOULD take up on. You can't get into trouble if you buy in one of these dips like we had a few days ago and hold for a few years.

Even if this is the only investment you do, it will give you a better return than any other regular stock market investment can ever get you within the same amount of time.

Invest wisely and be patient.

If you have the right cryptos, that's not an imagination but a strategy that you should be proud of. You've endured a lot of corrections and even the bear market that's too brutal and bloody then you've survived that. This is all about investing and you really have to be careful with your choices and you need to maintain your patience while you're holding your coins. For bitcoin, there is assurance that it's here to stay and will remain at the top. So if you're going to be long term, choose wisely and invest on bitcoin, hold 5 years or more.

It's not imagination I have some friends that have kept for even longer and still aren't selling. So there are people with diamond hands.

My perspective is that your english gave me cancer. But jokes aside, NEM was just an "okay" project, nothing spectacular, so i don't see any big things in it's future.
Also, bear market hasn't started yet, and it probably won't for 2-3 more months

it doesnt mean will apply for all coin, sometimes the other coin will give you a better value when you hold it for a long time. and yeah we cant expect  too much if every coin will strong when hold it for 5 years, for me, better if we can find the right time to sell and replace it with something better.


yeah, they hold more than 5 years, but give a great value now.

Sure, if you hold shit coins for 5 years, you will lose everything. Why don't you look at those well developed coins. Those that were at the top few years ago are still at the top and those that kept holding it made a huge profit. Every second of holding was totally worth it for them. Shit coins gets pumped. Reaches the top based on the value and then gets dumped, eventually dying. If you hold coins like Bitcoin or Ethereum, you won't be facing such risk.

I would hold only Bitcoin for 5+ years. I don't trust any of altcoins in the long run, they all have some kind of alternatives, "pun intended". 5 years ago there was no Ethereum, no Binance exchange etc. There was Doge but that's whole another conversation. You better do your plans depends on one bull season, start collecting in bear and start selling in bull season. That way you don't have to hold too many questionable coins in long run, there are thousands of useless coins which is hard to pick. Put most of your money to major coins. That's the advice I can give for free.

I don't know the value of my holdings as we are in a Bull market right now and a bear market could happen next year, so I just expect all to reach x2-x3 holdings.
Holding low-cap altcoins will have a better chance of increasing the asset, but they also face downside risks.

for the top 5 altcoins in CMC it is certainly not a problem to keep them for 5 years, because it is clear that the quality and skills they are in the market will continue to improve from time to time to always be the best.

Dont Use a Shitcoin as an example because that is far different from reality.

What is NEM compared to other good coins like Ethereum and Ripple and Binance coins?

look how much is the value of those coin in 2018 and how much are they now?

this is the problem if your ability to evaluate a coin is less than 10% , you won't find what is really happening.

Me too. Even i have some assets that i would never touch it since i have bought it from the market. I have a very big expectation of my asset can become even bigger from time to the another time.
There are lots of with the diamond hand. My friends were also doing the same as me too. Holding for the long term is not just an imagination.
It must become the main thing. There are lots of people that keeping their coins for long term est more than 5 years.

No idea to keep for 5 years long term investment is more profitable to invest in currencies in the crypto market. Most traders hold down for a certain period of time when the price of the currency starts to go down its value increases for retaining resources each currency in the crypto market is doubling in 2021 compared to 2017 those who have been investing since 2017 have achieved more than diamonds. It takes patience to hold on to the imagination or the long run even though the price has come down it has started rising again.

Even coins that are top 3-5 changes all the time, when hodling doesn't mean you left it without monitoring it but instead you keep get updated to the recent news also hodling doesn't mean you have to stick to some fixated date as your target but sell as you sees fit the key is being flexible
just like how the earler holder before 2020 wasn't expecting btc to explode in price this much but they are certainly a qualified holders and have gained profit a lot. also, coins like nem, eos, etc really prone to market cap fluctuation that makes them gets dethroned from their position if their development isn't that good.

but as long as you are familiar with crypto, have you ever held your assets for that long? whatever assets you own.
Market conditions determine how we can hold or release our investment assets.
every asset in the market can have the potential to survive and grow for 5 years. but what we are looking for is the best market momentum for the assets we have.

I also have the same opinion as you. holding 5 years is an imagination. because I think the bull market will occur every 2 to 3 years. and this bullish happened in early 2018 and is now happening in the middle of 2021. because of the experience I have had in 2018 and 2021 then I will hold the altcoin for at least 3 years then after that I will look for new altcoins that have better popularity

Correct, holding good assets for such long time have different outcome, if the project are progressive expect

to see more growth in terms of value, instead of of thinking on buying shit coins that don't have anything to

provide as good addition or contribution to this industry, it's wise to buy top 5 coins and hold for more longer years.

shitcoin in 5 years could be gone from market . for long term investment , we have to hold project with high quality product and their developers regularly send an update to investors or community. this our way to track how about progress that running and not be scamm. outside top 10 cms we must really concern about their progess delivering product.

If you can keep holding coins for 5 years, then it would make you create huge profits but it also depends on what kind of coins your are holding. If you chose to keep altcoins, the risk is definitely high as we know already that there is pump and dump season that happens anytime so you should atleast consider to hold ethereum as it has high chances to survive in long term. I also suggest to hold bitcoin as it will always bound to recover after it falls, unlike shitcoins that will always end up dead coins and will leave you losing your capital.

If you are going to hold for that long then you need to get bitcoin, it is as simple as that, and the reason for this is that we do not have an idea of what it is going to happen during the next five years, during that time I am sure that more than 99% of the altcoins currently in the market will disappear and many of those that are at the top could still exist but they are not going to be any longer at the top and would have been replaced by other coins, so holding altcoins for that long is a fantasy, but holding bitcoin for that long has been done by many people and should be relatively easy if you bought at a good price.

Holding 5 years of waiting will be good if we take the right coin. I personally never hold until 5 years. But, taking the coins of BTC and ETh when in 2019 until now is very profitable and worthy to wait.
In fact, holding and waiting will work for the top coins, never put the high risks in more low-rank altcoins.
And well, ensure to differentiate the funds of holding and trading. We all know the risks of holding, that is why ensure that the money is from free money. So, when the price goes down and doesn't meet the target, we will not get mad so highly because we are aware o the risks in crypto investment.
And now, btw, bullish time is not over yet. be patient on it.

It's very easy to talk. but if we talk about 5 years, 5 years is a very long time. When we decide to hold the coin in the long term we must have been very confident in all aspects of the project. if the price goes down, it is a risk that we must accept.

Holding it does take a very long time and we have to choose correctly which coin to hold, dont let it go to waste by taking a long time not getting results in my opinion it is better to hold bitcoin or ethereum to do that and dont forget we must always monitor its movement 

Well, it's really hard to hold coins for 5 years, especially if you have a lot of assets. however, if planning to hold long term, I also choose to hold popular altcoins like Bitcoin, ETH, or BNB, and probably the most appropriate choice for that is bitcoin, because the pump sometimes starts from that. however, holding back for 5 years is hard enough, and we can do that by buying and forgetting. well, you will remember when the price really pump  :D

For level current price, I think decide to holding for 5 year is too long, because in this times duration, we will see trend of bearish. And we know when bearish season coming, all coins include BTC can be dump more than 80%. We should be ready for that skenario if we holding 5 years start from now.

When talking about 5 years holding most of us declared this for Bitcoin and not for Shitcoin like NEM .

so basically your comparison is shitty to what is the correct treatment.

HODL is also a need for strategy, the coin you are HODL is generally bought in a bear market at a low price, so that the bull market can generally be several times, but if you with bad luck maybe the bull market has nothing to do with you. All in all, luck is important.
Any way, the easy way is investing in BTC all the time,any time.

Maybe its not ideal for some cryptocurrencies to hodl for long term especially if there is no progress or development however if the cryptocurrency that you hodl is a potential coin then hodling it for long term as much as 5 years is a good way to get a huge amount of profit.

For someone who can afford to live a normal life without touching his BTC savings, 5 years is nothing. The temptation to sell everytime there's a bull run event will always be there. So holding for 5 years harder than everyone imagine.

A combination of strategy also needs a good knowledge within the  venue of investment that you'll going to take,

your friend really made it as he combine long and short trading, it's about the strategy and the way you see and

percepts the possibilities, not a risk free but have a good chance to earn decently.

Those who need the money tend to sell early than expected because it’s really hard to hold if you depend too much on Bitcoin so I suggest invest the money that you think you don’t need in the next 5 years, this is the only way to stay hold. I also see big changes on the top position in term of marketcap so if you are going to hold, make sure it is a good project and worth the wait.

this is pure clear fact on determining your choice of investment. most projects has disappeared from the top 10. these are all long term project. Not only Nem was declared a long term project. 70% of all the coins in the top 100 CMC are latest investment of 2018 till date. As you invest your funds, make sure to stay updated on trends and market movement to avoid missing out.

And considering holding for 5 years, you will certainly be missing some opportunity. I'm not sure if there someone could do that, yeah, it is a sort of motivation but the question is if that really works and profiting coz I feel not.

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Maybe we could say "I hold until the next Bullrun will come" that will be more on reality. May it takes time, years to wait but at least we are sure that we never miss something and we can sell them when Bullrun comes.

It depends on what you are holding and your patience to wait that long. We can't foretell what can happen next 5 years, some that are in the top marketcap can be replaced by any other coin or even new coins since people creating new projects and idea pops up everyday. There are a lot of coins that can be worthy holding long-term, some might become stale in price next 5 years or some would increase to hubdreds and even thousand folds. Just imagine the idea of those who has diamond hands who were able to keep their crypto for a long time and the profit they are enjoying now even in the bear market. It can be worth the risk and wait.

everyone has a different view on this. some think that the longer the coin is stored, the more its value will increase. there are also those who prefer to just wait, it is better to take advantage of every moment of price movement to take advantage.
saving a long time is not a guarantee that the price will go up, this depends on the potential of the coins you hold. we also have to be able to analyze the market, update news, and the latest info related to cryptocurrencies in order to get the right timing.

I have many altcoins sitting on my wallet for 5 years now, Most of them are dead but I still have valued coins such as DOGE. Honestly, I just discovered recently that my old wallets still have valuable coins that are waiting for me to sell, I just sold some of them and some of them will sit for more years now.  I think major coins like BTC, ETH and others will have a hard time sitting on a wallet but I believe there are some rare people holding their assets for that long.

Holding to have a huge profit in the future is depends on what kind of coins you are going to hold. If you are going to hold those shitcoins, you just hold and wait for your losses instead of profit. 5 years of holding is not a joke and if you invest a huge capital to hold, be sure that you put a deep research about the coins you hold for long term. Those coins with already a strong foundation in crypto market is the best choice for me.

It is true that we need to hold the right one to profit. By the time I want to make it clear. NEM is a potential cryptocurrency, because no one might've experienced loss out of it. The profiting might be low. Unexpected things happen with the cryptocurrency which is the reason it is stated as high risk investment. As in the opening post investing on the top cryptocurrencies at the present and leaving for next five years will assure with profit unlike the bear and bull trend of the market.

Even now NEM isn't a bad choice, because it has reached its ath value close to $1. The present price is very low and can be considered for the purpose of investing.

if you can do that then it is certain that when you bought bitcoin 5 years ago then you should now be able to become rich, investing in cryptocurrency if you apply it on an annual basis you can earn a lot of profit.

Do keep in mind that not every coin is suitable for long-term investment. I doubt they would be able to even survive in next 5 years.

If you want to actually hold coin for 5 years then Bitcoin and Ethereum are just your top picks, nothing else. The potentials are too high to miss and you wouldn't want to actually miss the profit and the benefit they offer when you hold it. Or if you still not satisfied with the result, then just simply hold gold because there is nothing wrong with that.

For me I do believed on hodling long termly knowing that some of my colleagues become rich doing these long term hodling however you must really need to find a potential gems that is good in long term investment so that you will really get a good amount of profit. And in order for you to be successful doing a 4-5 years hodling you must really do a deep research on your prospected potential gem.

Maybe there is, as they can really afford to do it without bothering themselves to check it from time to time. People who usually check their portfolio every day are those people who set no time-frame of holding and they will sell their holding at any time if they saw some profit.

But for myself, I can't guarantee that I could do that. Maybe 1 year of holding could be done but 5 years, I can't imagine myself waiting for that long.

The problem is not really the time but what happens during those five years, I have no doubt that someone willing to hold bitcoin for that long will obtain profits no matter what even if they bought at the ATH, but the issue is that we know that the price can go down dramatically during that time and you could face losses for years and very few are going to have the patience and the guts to hold for that long under those circumstances, so if you can you need to enter at a bottom to make it easier for you to hold for that long.

5 years could make a huge difference when it comes to crypto but the point is, maybe you could have earned much more if you spent your time investing and mining during that time. That 5 years is a risk since you cannot be certain that the coin you invested in will have its price increased much. Think about it first and analyze the prize movement and the pattern so that if ever you decided to risk a 5 year hold, it will be worth it and you will profit from it a lot. Make sure that you've done a lot of research before risking and always be certain that you can outsmart crypto's movements.

True, holding cryptocurrency for 5 years is really not that easy especially for someone that is really into cryptocurrency or a daily trader, A lot of cryptocurrency or token in the market will have a lot of movement in the past 5 years if you continue to hold and some of the tokens could be worth investing and some are just not worth it to continue.

But when it comes to holding long term I guess it's obvious that it is always bitcoin and Ethereum, they just the cryptocurrency that is ideal to hold for long term and earn a high amount of profit after 5 years, other cryptocurrency could just end up losing money.

For me it just depends on your strategy plan in your investment how are you going to handle the dumps or taking the profit, short term or long term? I mean even holding bitcoin for years is not that easy.

I disagree that holding is a very difficult thing, people think that holding during all these periods, holding during 2018 crash, holding during this crash, holding if there is even a bigger crash, all are said to be very hard. Not for me, you know why? Because holding actually means "doing nothing", think about it when you absolutely nothing at all, you are actually holding, if you bought and then just went about your day and do nothing about crypto that means you are holding and that is not difficult at all.

In fact selling is doing something and that is harder, you make a decision on selling or not and decide to go with selling, which is an act so you do something, which is evidently harder than doing nothing because there is nothing hard about doing nothing. So all those people who think holding is hard are people who are just too afraid to do nothing.

Holding for five years is an investment, maybe you meant trading during those five years and while it is true that trading can be more profitable than trading we need to ask ourselves how many people actually can make money while they trade? And we know that number to be incredibly low so this is not something I would recommend, and finally when it comes to mining the costs will keep a lot of people away as you need a high starting capital and you also need expertise on the topic and cheap electricity.

hodl is in accordance with belief, by looking at what coins are good, one of them is by research and looking at it from another perspective.
it's true like that because not all coins in alt are good and we have to be really observant in choosing if we want to hold it for a long time. and i think you're pretty good at mentioning eth and btc because these are great to hodl for a long time

You need to consider it all before making decision, but with good efforts in finding all the information it's very possible that you'll come into a decision that will probably profitable base from your observation.

The more you dig in the more you see what's best for you, in that span of time there are many things that may happened, you can't control but you can expect base from your research.

The beauty of this industry, it's still young and it's still on progressive status, long-term view, this business can bring good profits.

Cryptocurrency is developing very quickly and therefore its long-term storage always requires at least periodic control over the state of the market and cryptocurrencies that are in our wallets. In five years, almost any top cryptocurrency can fall in popularity. It can be stated that we are going to keep certain types of coins or tokens for many years, but this does not mean at all that we cannot change our mind at any time based on a specific market situation. This is quite realistic and logical.

Agree with imagination, both good or dead coin i think will really need a guy with a strong belief and maybe rich to hold a lot of coins. Because from what i see, when bitcoin price pumped and followed by some altcoins, people will feel very happy and sell their coins immediately. Honestly maybe not all, but like me for example, i already happy although ETH reach $400 and sell some of my coins before first big pump.

Either you win or loose,It all depends upon your coin selection.If your portfolio consists of worthy coins having physically global business and professional team and vision to expand then you are more suitable than who have shit coins and expect to be rich.Indeed in case we need to hold a coin for a long time we ought to keep upgraded with the news of the coin that we hold, we cannot fair take off it absent without seeing any upgrades approximately the news, ventures or any data around the coin. We ought to select a solid principal coin in the event that we arranged to hold a coin for long run.

some of the best crypto assets that can be considered for long-term investment are only bitcoin, etherium, letcoin and BNB because I have done this and holders are always fun and for other tokens there may be some that are promising while most of the others are just big gaps the downside, long-term investment risk is the necessity of life that requires having to sell some of our assets at the existing price

Hodle hodle!!!
Holding is one of the best way to adopt a coin but very difficult I'll say. To hold is not just simple by saying it but by practicing.
If a coin is to be held for 5 years I bet the profit would be massive in return in respective of the project. If it's a good and promising project the outcome would be very great. Just imagine people that held ETH for past 5years till date, massive return of profit. But hard to hold cause you'll be tempted somehow to sell but if you already have some funds that can sustain you I see no stress for holding.

Only few of them are worth holding long term. Because most of them will just go down the drain. BTC and ETH seem to fall in that category. But you should always keep up with the market, because one big news, and the route of the coin may change forever. Not many people can afford to hold long term, let alone 5 years. Those are crypto users that can afford to bear whatever is happening to the market and believe that their coins are worth holding for years. And they can very well afford to lose in case.

I think keeping something for a long or short term should be planned in advance. Currently, the market situation seems to be in a very difficult period to predict, but it will be an opportunity if we put our faith and learn many other things for this market.

There are coins that somehow going to be worth holding but you should have figured to dump tokens when it didn't pump this year because it really just need a bit of a miracle to make it. Developers could choose NEM to develop in their platform but then they choose ETH. Less developers going into it, then it's not a very attractive platform, and its economy will struggle. 5 years is too long for not seeing the improvement of the platform's economy. NEM had been around before WAVES.

It is historically proven that prices are going up by just holding. Take a look at BTC and other coins out there with real life usage. Its all up to us how to spot good coins and reject investing to shit coins which is hyped up by some individuals who like to manipulate markets. DYOR and if for you it could do something great in the future, holding it for 5 years is not just an imagination but a good decision.

My idea is if we hold some coins it should be linked with a good project. Unless it will be useless keep holding for 5 years. If you have no time to analyze what are the  good projects just try to keep holding around first 10 coins on the coinmarketcap. As example if someone hold 1 Eth since 2018 to 2021 it can be got more than 3000$. So the conclusion is you need to invest in a good coin. 

that's exactly why if you want to make a long term holding you better choose an underrated coin that have potential to become popular in the future. if you're just holding a coin that's already among the top #5 but have quite poor potential then it's the same as losing money.
Of course to judge which of coin have a high potential isn't an easy feat but usually if you invested in a coin at early phase with cheaper price its gonna increase the chance of making you profit in the future.

Unfortunately if people are waiting for profits then it is market price of the token that they care about,,, and we all know in crypto good projects hardly and rarely translate into token price. At least,,, not for the few years when starting out (look at BNB).

And worse, many good projects end up just ignoring the token eventually. Great products but no adoption:)

you can't just hold any coins in the long term, choose the ones that have long-term potential...

if you hold Bitcoin, ethereum, ADA or polygon maybe you have the opportunity to earn many times over in the next 5 years. In the crypto market, there are many potential Altcoins that you can make long-term investments, so don't choose NEM.

 it could be an imagination for you because you never comit the same act  but holding 5 years or whatever year it was is not an imagination for a person that has a strong patience and you use nem as example but nem started at 2018 and we are in the year of 2021 .
nem was still 3 years of existence but we wont know what can happen after 2 years more ,  maybe the coin can make a big comeback . you better use another coin op as example

This is why learning and looking at the project before you spend lots of your money in a project is very important, I think this is the problem the new investors are facing right now since they saw that some of the coins can make them a millionaire in their thinking, that is why they are easy to take advantage by a false project, learning and monitoring the situation is very important, the slightest mistake will put you in a unfamiliar situation as an investor.

The market is not stable at any time for that reason we have to understand the market trend such as when pump we have to sell when dump we have to buy this the real strategy if you want to succeed from this market.

if you are holding in the current generation, 2021 to 2025, of course the future is still very far to see,
it's a different story if you hold from 2020 until now, you can take real action by selling half of the coins you buy,
because it is bearish maybe could happen before 2022

Holding for five years of time will surely assure with big profit. This can be understood with the growth that has happened with different cryptocurrencies in the past. Till date users who have kept hold for few years of time have profited good out of cryptocurrencies. I keep suggesting my friends to save little by little and take out the profit focusing long term.

Long term perspective on a good coin can be very rewarding!  I imagine those that had foresight about bitcoin 10 years ago,  all they have was a dream of where they think bitcoin value will be!  It is important not to be taking or limited by present circumstances,  we must project ourselves through our dreams and be committed to it.  Cryptocurrency is still going to be bigger than we have ever imagined! So,  holding quality coin for four to five years is a good strategy!

While some coins go up to much higher prices over the years, the price of some coins goes down completely. It is not easy to predict this, but it is very important to choose the coins correctly when investing in the long term.
5 years is a long time to hold a coin, but it is difficult to update. If you can go 5 years without selling what you have, you will probably make good profits :)

before, i also did a long term hold strategy but it was not fruitful indeed i suffered huge losses, so by now i have changed, other than keeping the coins for 5 years, selling even if at a slight loss to stem the catastrophe as much as possible, of course i speak only for myself is not a financial advice

Well not everyone is up to the long-term holding anyway and you can't blame people for that. They expect that crypto will get them from rags to riches in no time or like you know, overnight as they say.
This is why many tend to panic when the market is in red. I am not surprised by these anymore since 2019.

Difficult does not mean impossible, I myself keep short trading and quite active in the market but if it takes hold for a long time I'm sure I can do it. because for long-term hold it takes confidence in what we invest, I myself am very sure bitcoin will be much better than now

In my own opinion, holding works and at the same time, it also doesn't. It works when you hold good coins and it does not work when you hold coins which fades away with time, even though they might have started on a good ground.
A typical example is Bitcoin, we knew the price early last year, and the price it is today shows those who held are still in profit. Another is Ethereum, of course it reached another ATH, and it doesn't look like it is going back to a much lower price. Also, we can't forget how BNB pumped and took over a good position on coinmarketcap as well as reaching an ATH.
Now imagine those who bought these coins two years ago and their current value now, can you still say holding is useless? There are many countless examples of coins which people held even last year at a cheap price and they are still in good profit and there are many which people bought and are in huge losses; thus this also confirms what I said earlier, holding works when you hold good coins and it doesn't when you focus on coins whose team have no long term vision.

Mine was completely different from your experience cause when I hold  Bitcoin and some altcoins then from 2017 to 2021, I was surprised on what I saw. It was almost 10× of my initial capital which was due to the strong bullish move. Maybe because it was Bitcoin but I also remember the price of few altcoins then when compared to now that the price had gone higher than I expected. Although some altcoins developers are not just serious in handling their projects which had really affected the bullish price of their coins.

I find it easy to hold any altcoin for 5 or more years. My wallet still has some airdropped altcrap and I've been holding them for 2-3 years already.
I dont know why people find it hard or impossible to hold for a long period. Probably because they cant set a goal and follow it. Their mind if weak and is leaded with greed.

It is not only investing, the 5-year period is already a guarantee of profits.
But what if you don't have the necessary knowledge of an experienced investor?
It is clear that you will be wasting money and time!
You have to study first about investments and risks...

you should always know the long term plan of the token you are holding. currently, the best projects to hold nowadays are blockchain tokens and defi tokens. these are the best. i don't think NFT WILL last for long. i think it is a bubble just like the days of Rebase projects. blockchain projects that will last for long is DEFI and smart contract projects for me. also the tope 10 projects is a must hold.

Coinmarketcap listed altcoins number is over 10k. This amount is really big if we try to find the difference between those altcoins. So many different altcoins we have, which means none of these altcoins are comparable.  Every Altcoins doesn't pump at the same announcement. Everyday we are experiencing new altcoins which are better than the older ones, then the older one is losing his position.

Holding fluctuatif asset in  5 years is too long, because in this duration, maybe we will pass once or 2 times of bear markets. To gain muptiple profit in 5 years, I think we should be combine the investment,.I mean not only make invest on Bitcoin but also on stock market or Gold. When bear market in crypto market start, we can change portfolio of investment to Gold or high cap stocks. And we can enter again to crypto market after dumped 80% more, because this big crash is always happen in crypto.

I think its always depend on the status of the person who hold the coin, because everyone has its own status and everyone has its own problem about money. If i have a lot of money i am sure that I can hold the coin for 5 years, because i can buy the coins and forget it because I have a lot of money to paid my daily expenses.

One thing that makes to hold for a long haul is that being fretfulness, advertised. There are times that when the coins that we are contributing got advertised then we will go sell it, there is no off-base for this thing on the off chance that you are looking at putting resources into an image coin that just got high due to the advertised. It very well may be helpful for you on the off chance that you have an essential programming/advances and cryptography information by and large.

From my current perspective, the step that needs to be done is to wait for the market to return to normal, because my nagi 4.5 years is a very long time, and that time will require a lot of patience and I don't have the patience to wait that long. Regarding the ranking of a coin, there are several supporting factors in it, the number of investors, the number of transactions in one day, and the quality of the developer, and of these three factors, all three must be balanced, if a coin does not have the advantage of these three factors, do not expect it to survive.

This is what I think, just holding without having a profit goal is the same as throwing away money that is clearly already in sight. Holding too long will only apply to top tier coins that are proven to really have long-term products, but we also have to know that if we are already profitable, why are we still waiting so long?

Some coins are going to be useless after 5years or more, but some coins has a potential that can make us all rich. I've heard some airdrop hunters got rich because of joining airdrop every single day.

Before holding on for a long time, make sure first whether our coins are suitable or not,
because it is such an important thing that when we hold on for a long time we will not be in vain in doing it,
what is clear is that we have to really understand everything so that we can make the right decisions

Some got lucky receiving coins from airdrop which they no longer expect that it gives them money, it was just surprising that this year during the bullish season most of these shitcoins are pumping for no reason.
We have this experience last 2017, 2021, and might happen as well in the next Bullrun. But as I've said, we can assure that what we hold now (shitcoins) will likely pump. So better not to think them either but to invest those potential coins for a bigger chance.

That's right, I use to earn in airdrop before and I think that year (2017) is a lucky year for me for cryptocurrency. I use to earn in airdrops 2 times, and I for sure there are still potential shitcoins that can have a value for no reason. I have a lot of shitcoins in my etherwallet and I still want to join airdrops because no one knows that maybe one of those coins can have a potential someday. And there is nothing wrong for trying.

When you are holding for long term, compare the price of your coin rather than comparing it's price with the one that rose the most.
Also passive holding seems to be a dumb idea in crypto market where missing a bull could make you wait years to get back to the same position. Hold with strategic sell points in mind or even in the order book. You are holding for profit not for the sake of holding. Keep different sell points at your expected profitable price.

Yes! Having a set goal price for every crypto we hold is a must, Since this limits our exposure to losess and stop us from getting greedy specially during bull run. Having both a clear goal in terms of profit and also a stop loss will make our trading journey much more profitable and safer against losses.

Holding altcoins is riskier than Bitcoin. Projects can end at any time because a fatal error in the source code can kill the project, or the developer stops the project.
Blockchain technology is constantly changing so we cannot know which projects will grow continuously or will be crushed by others. To be a successful holder we need to know how to diversify our investments and have an accurate judgment of the market trend.

You shouldn't expect every coin to be successful because it's cryptocurrency, every crypto adviser will tell you that not all coin would be implemented and be useful in the future, there may be a time when for example LTC will bit be successful and will die off just like NEM,
You just have to be wise enough to select the best coin before investing in them, be sure to select a use case coin.

that's why a trader and investor do need to make a plan from the assets they buy.
determine assets for the long term or short term.
determine assets for trading or investment.
determine the selling price or buying price.
everything should have been taken care of from the start to limit how an investor or trader can make a loss for themselves.

Dont hodl for 5 years without checking any news about the project you invest in, check it as a roadmap or every 2 years. The best thing usualy you can check it if you hear about the BTC bullish news. Like people who invested in 2014 to ethereum and hodl it untill 2017. Or people who invested in to dent, aave, swissborg in 2018. Those token ICO is announce here in this forum.

holding 5 years is a maximum tolerance, that was pretty long. Honestly, I can't wait that long without checking the market price and the possibility that I may sell my crypto earlier than 5 years if there is an opportunity. Of course, why not? The purpose of investing in crypto is not to hold for many years but to have profit in a shorter time if possible.

Holding 5 years is a joke for me and I'd find no reason why we should have to do it.

it depends on what you are holding. you can not compare who is holding bitcoin and ethereum with someone holding Neo and EOS. those tokens has little or nothing serious to offer. try invest in quality projects and see the result of holding. it is wonderful and good to get quality projects. not scams and quick rich projects.

Of course 5 years is a good time for holding crypto, because crypto prices dropped at the end of 2018 so off and happy because my portfolio rose about 8x, and I will hold again because crypto trends continue to improve.

People need to understand that holding an asset can be profitable but only if such asset has very strong fundamentals, this is the case for bitcoin as it is by far the best coin in the market, there are a few other coins that are worth holding for the long term but those coins are few and far between, do not take the risk of holding a new coin in the same way as you could easily lose your money as we know the majority of those coins are scams or disappear shortly after their creation.

Holding coins for five or even more years is not an impossible thing to do actually. Look at those who got rich in Bitcoin. Most of them accomplished it by being patient for years. Hence, I can't use a word like "impossible" for this.

After such a long time, many coins simply will not survive. Trust only to those who stood at the origins of the technology. As time has shown, the best investments are only in these coins.

Investing in crypto is a high-risk venture so even large investment funds are likely to lose money when the project goes bankrupt. We buy crypto and risk more than mutual funds so if you invest in crypto forget them, money has been thrown out the window.
The only way to beat the market is to invest in the deepest bear market and wait for the market to rise again.

Five years ago btc price was at $406. Anyone who held their btc for this long gained $59500. I cannot imagine many people can hold for that long but for those who can holding can be very rewarding. Patience pays off. not every coin will bring you this much profit and you should always take your precautions when investing in any altcoin that is suitable with your own investment style.

It depends on what coins we are choosing to hold for 5 years. Because not all coins in crypto are potential. There are also shitcoins which always make us down at the end. No gain from our expectations to earn. Potential coins are meant to give us good return in due time. One of those potential could be find in top 100 coins particularly the top 5 not including usdt.

waiting for the arrival of the deepest bear is the hardest. we often miss the best moments to buy or sell.
but like us, we're more with bears. so be careful if you want to buy now. we must have confidence in the assets we buy because for 5 years I think many waste projects will die.
I have full confidence in the purchase of BNB. either current or waiting for a dump. 5 years in the future we will see the value multiplied from today.

Bitcoin and Ethereum is what I was also going to say for long term holds.

For me to save for 5 years was really very difficult . Long term and many temptations. Because we never know what this coin will be after 5 years. Sometimes I'm afraid I'll miss it when the price is good...and maybe after that the price will fall even more. So I now prefer to play altcoins in particular always short term and keep learning to analyze.

Top 5 may hold up well. But rank is not a benchmark for us. It's just that many new coins are getting the attention of investors thereby increasing the trading volume. We can test the coin after a few years later, and the market conditions deteriorate. Today many coins are top, but in an instant they are out of circulation.

Well, not all coins I believe. Bitcoin, ETH, and BNB, are popular coins that could probably grow over time, and even some other altcoins which are listed on big exchanges, they are still profitable up to now if we count 5 years from now. So we are talking of 2016 here, backward of 5 years and that time coins are very cheap.

Weel, holding 5 years I recommend for coins that are currently in the top 20 such as ETH, BNB, BCH, Cardano, etc. Seeing the development of crypto now of course there is no need to be afraid, many stock exchanges have accepted crypto, this is proof that crypto is the future of assets.

right, if we want to hold a coin in the long term, then the top coin is an option, don't let us hold on to a new project which we don't know the quality of in the future, unless we use free money, so we are prepared when something bad happens

Some coins can just be confusing seeing it movement stagnant as if it's just being static like an idol. This is the reason why it is very important to do market survey or just carrying out research on crypto coin that you want to invest on. This will help to prevent you being a loser at the long. I will rather sell a coin back to the market if I had made a mistake in purchasing a static coin that has no life.

Buying and holding bitcoin has always been a tremendous decision.  Sure can you buy and sell and make a little more sats along the way but bitcoin has shown that no matter when you buy eventually its worth more to just HD then try to determine tops and bottoms.

Holding 5 years ? I have some altcoins in my folio until now that I bought them since in 2017 in a low of price but I did not sell them because of these always in a dip. But they are in exchange site also listed so I trusted to have a chance to rise the price in more years. I holding them as long as I can than to sell them into a low of price. Maybe if I dont have any trust of these coins that I have in my folio I sell them even the price was to low.

Checking some of the snapshots of Coinmarketcap through out the years shows that there is really no good investments than BTC and ETH for the alts - if we are talking about long term. Sure you can argue about DOGE, but those who profited out of DOGE are just lucky that they were able to get to a situation that the price is high. Anyway, my holdings are in ETH for altcoins and also some short term coins like BNB. But my future investments would really depend if the community and the devs of that coin are really active and fully support it. Otherwise, it is just a waste of money.

It could be impossible for those that are looking to invest in altcoins because as we know that market is incredibly volatile and doing something like that will be very difficult but it can be done, however if anyone is interested in doing this in a coin that is not bitcoin then they are taking a high risk the coin may disappear while they are holding it, while those that decided to hold bitcoin can do so with ease as 5 years is more than enough to produce significant profits.

It is not necessary to hold cryptocurrencies for a very long time, but you just need to wait for the next growth of the cryptocurrency market and you need to fix the profit at that moment, and in general, of course, I think that after the next growth of the cryptocurrency market, many top cryptocurrencies will update their price records, so now while the cryptocurrency market is correcting we need to think about where it is best to invest in order to get a good profit from this later.

This is the truth, many people do not really realize that investing for such a long time is only a viable strategy in coins like bitcoin and maybe ethereum, any other coin in which you invest for that long is going to be a complete gamble as we know that many coins have the tendency to look incredibly strong and then disappear relatively quickly, besides the developers could turn out to be scammers or a better coin could appear that replaces the coin in which you invested and you lose money that way.

The market is full of risk and one can not have a guarantee making profits from a particular token by holding it for a certain number of years, it's a risk one needs to take. But if there is a need then sell off your holding and move on instead of holding up for long without gain.

its true no one could not guarantee profits by holding multiyears, but we can analize how cryptocurrency market structure and cycle. for traders that involved more than 4 years in crypto market will understand bitcoin market cycle. after halving done price will rise extremely, history said like this not single opinion from any expert.

Developments in blockchain technology are quite fast, every project must be able to keep up with existing developments otherwise they will be left behind even with new projects, as is currently the trend with DEFI, then every project that follows will grow rapidly while those that do not follow will stagnate even decreased. So we must continue to pay attention to the development of the project we are investing in.

keeping in update will bring and help us to find the project potency, is it well developted or not. i see some developers team was work very slow and they dont know what actually needed by market now . following market should be an idea for every developers that want build their project.

4 to 5 years holding is such a long term and sacrificing, because you will wait for your holdings to have the good value to gain more profits. There are some people who are holding there assets for a long time including me, i am holding my assets 4 years now and still waiting for them to have the best value so that i can benefit from them and gain profits. But sadly to say that most of my holdings aren't doing well.

TRX is almost 5 years by now, I don't see its price going to the moon. There is no reason anymore to hold the token for an investors who aimed to hold for 5 years so if it weren't for the gambling apps in the platform, all the holders may have leaved the project. This should prove that holding tokens for 5 years is not worth especially if you only have few of it like less than 500 of it. Altcoins are growing slow and bear market will make its price close to zero.

just a figure of speech, saving coins for too long requires a high level of patience and must also have the right predictions, because every time it will definitely change..

If you are going to ask me, the main reason one can wait for 5 years is because he has the means to live for the next five years, and he has the money to invest and leave in the system for 5 years. Maybe it might be too long to wait, but I believe many of the supporters of Bitcoin might have waited until the time Bitcoin hit $60,000 before they decided to cash out some of their Bitcoins. I bet they must be millionaires by now. Anyway those who can wait then carry on and be fruitful when the time comes.

This market has some realities. If you don't trade at the right times, you'll always come back. I make this mistake a lot and always lose big in the bear market. We may enter a bear market right now so we have to be careful. After 5 years, I hope we all reach our dream goals.

for the long term do not gamble by investing in new projects. not necessarily they can survive in the market in the next 5 years.
if you choose a project that has developed, it might be the best choice. because even though the price will not match our plans. at least we can still trade assets.
I think choosing investment with target price planning is better than timing planning. both risky but I prefer to determine the selling price. even though it has been achieved in just a matter of months, I will still sell it. no need to wait for 5 years which is not necessarily our price target is achieved at that moment.

5 years being too long to hold a coin depends on the coin you want to hold or currently hodling, The NEM coin which op used as an example is not a very popular coin to me, not everyone know it even exist, but if we use bitcoin and Ethereum and binance coin as an example, those who bought btc and eth and BNB 5  or less years ago and still held it till now are already in huge profits even with the recent market crash.
So holding a coin for 5 years is not a bad idea, but one thing people must understand is that, it's not every coin that's meant to be held that long, there are coin that it's foundation are very solid and this type of coins can be held for this long, but for others, they are to be held from 6 months to 1 years, others 1 year to 2 or 3 years depending on how solid the project is.

Been into crypto since 2016 so I can say hodling for 5 years is not an imagination. A portion of my btc earnings here from signature campaigns goes to my non-custodial wallet where my plan is just to hold it until I am not able to work anymore. I am not sure if it will still have value by the time I retire but holding btc is very different from altcoins. Altcoin's development depends on the developers so holding only good altcoins like eth or bnb is good for the long term while holding low cap altcoins is a risk because their development is not continuous and most often the devs behind that leave it in the long run.

That's how important knowing which type of project are you holding, that 5 long years have a lots of

challenges you'll see many price movements, it's up to your good  analysis to sort it out and entrust your

money in that long span of time, though with Bitcoin and ETH those long 5 years are very profitable to those

who still holding their assets.

And you also need to be firm with the coins you've bought to be held for a long time. Because aside from patience, without having that firm decision that you'll hold it for a long time, you'll eventually sell it even before hitting the year target that you've set.
You need to strategize when you trade, bears or bulls, if you commit a mistake then you have to learn from it.

Just learn from that failure or mistake that you've done and you'll realize on which part of the actual strategy you did you have to correct. It's like a trial and error and that's always be the case for traders. There's no easy success, trader or holder and both of it takes risk.
And if you think that there's a need to change, then you have to change your strategy at all.

Regarding myself, I'm hodling all my cryptocurrencies forever, there is no selling on my side. Those digital currencies are the future, if you think good why would you sell?

Altcoins are never meant to be holding for long term according to me.
And if you still want to try your luck, then unfortunately you will face losses only.
Op you have already shown us a clear example, how a coin can keep you bankrupt.
So yes, holding coin for 5 years of long term will only be an imagination.
Better try to trade daily and different varieties of coin.

FOREVER? lol don't fool everyone here because there are no such thing .

Even those early adopters  gone sold their coins when the price increased Hugely .

very reasonable. especially with altcoins that are not popular in the market, it will be very easy to lose and regret investing in the long term.

I myself prefer short-term investments of 5 months-1 years. It also depends on the asset I choose. as well as day trading, sometimes our inability to choose assets makes it difficult for us to do day trading. but if we can do it, it is very easy to make a profit by day trading.

We have to go ahead with the plan to learn the techniques it will be much easier to avoid risks and increase your knowledge and skills if you go ahead with the plan by doing soil research. It is not a fantasy to invest in the right currency it is possible to make a profit with long term investment.

You let your greediness make a decision for you, it's ok for Bitcoin because whenever it goes down it always goes up again, but when it comes to other coins we cannot compare it to Bitcoin and there's a possibility that it will not go up again if it goes down one example of this is Tron been holding Tron for years but until now it failed to break it's an all-time high, even in a bull trend.

it is undeniable that not all coins have good prospects for long-term holding or long-term investment like btc. maybe some will be lucky to hold but some can lose, so it is important to choose a really good coin to invest by researching it first. I also have some coins that I still have and I hope the price will go up. a lot of new coins that appear and make the old coins that are not so good even worse. the crypto market is indeed risky if we can't manage our assets properly so i will be more careful.

And that is what makes holding for so long so difficult if you are investing in one of those new coins, the market moves extremely fast if the developers are not able to keep up then a coin that once was considered to be the very best and at the edge of the technology suddenly is completely outdated, which is why the developers are so important when it comes to the long term value of a coin, because if they are not dedicated and take too long to update the code then the value of the coin will most likely plummet at some point.

That is indeed true, and honestly it is difficult to see such situations coming. Not only the projects itself must be then look upon but also the consideration of how developers are working for the project. In doing so, progress and incompetency could be somehow observed.

It is true that if the team is slow in the development, people will move on as there are other interesting projects that could come up with updates and pump the market. I know many projects in the past failed to gain attention after the initial hype because they were really slow in coming up with updates and development and eventually people will move on to other investment opportunities.

I do not know the future of altcoins, but coins such as bitcoin, BNB, ETHEREUM, DOT, ADA are very promising. Therefore, it seems quite logical to invest in such coins in a long period of five years.

Which is completely natural, I mean that are many coins released each day and we know that as soon as any new project that has a chance of becoming successful appears many clones are created almost immediately with similar names, at that point it is a race and the developers that are the most dedicated will win over the long term, so if the team of the first coin that created a new concept is too slow to update their coin then someone else will take the lead and will probably never release it as they become more popular than the original coin.

this depends on which coin or altcoin we will choose to invest. maybe certain unpopular altcoins will pump in that time, but those new altcoins can also crumble to ashes. but for me long term, I prefer long term safe altcoins like eth and bnb. choosing a new altcoin for the long term I think is like gambling, if we research it wrong

Holding coins for years to come is still a gamble that's why I recommend top 5 altcoins for long term hold and also it's a bad idea to hold a coin for that long instead of building a portfolio instead, this will crate more chances of success than holding a coin

Yes, in general it is still better to hold five good coins than just one coin because with five coins we hold, we can expect a little more profit for the future if market conditions can improve and allow for hope.

actually, it depends on what coin is held, if indeed the coin has good prospects then it will be profitable. otherwise, if it has bad prospects then it will not mean anything. I think that keeping coins for 5 years is long enough and for coins, the prospects for coins must be seen whether they are good or not. It's hard to accept the fact that I've been holding an old coin and it hasn't paid off because I feel that way too and it's stressing me out a bit. but it doesn't need to be thought too far and at this time you have to focus more on good coins and follow legit projects so that the results are also good.

Well its true some are not perfoming well but i do hold since 2018. You can search UBT which a good project from germany. They got a lot of customer this year and the price doing quiet well IMO. i do think holding coin still the best way for me in crypto world. Trading not for me cause its full of emotions and make you hard to sleep.

Our purpose to  purchase cryptocurrency is to make profit. Five years is a long time. For general encryption projects, there may not necessarily be good returns. For Bitcoin, I can consider a cycle of 5 years or even 10 years.

That id the thing. It doesn't necessarily mean that just because people suggest to HODL means you should hold on to every and any coin/token. Most of the top coins/tokens we knew from back in 2017/18 are not the ones in the top 10/20 now so what happens if someone was still holding on to those and they couldn't recover from that bear market as expected? I believe that I will only continue to HODL on Bitcoin and Ethereum for longer periods really while for other coins/token I can buy back when the next circle starts if I want to invest in any. HODLing is not for every coin/token.

Only some investors can hold the coin for many years, but when the results they get can be satisfactory then it is a very good principle because it has a high level of patience in investing, but storing potential coins for a long time I think it does not hurt because if there is an increase in the price then the profit earned is very large.

well, in this case, NEM is also a good coin, it's just not the right coin. if you plan to hold on for a long time, choose a coin with a pretty promising prospect for the future, for example like BNB, or ethereum.

For a moment, let's ignore the case with the smaller coins and concentrate on the established coins. For these coins - BTC, ETH, BNB, ADA, LTC, BCH, XRP.etc, the current prices are higher than what we had at any point before 2021 (2020 and earlier). I first got my BTC on January 2017, and it has been almost 5 years now. The current prices represent a 40x increase from my purchasing price. If I had invested in any of the alts (ETH or ADA), then the returns would have been even higher (215x for Ethereum).

I think everyone can do it no matter big or small investor and long term is the best investment and the result will not disappoint especially choose bitcoin and choose some of the top and oldest altcoins which are definitely profitable in the long run.
if you think long term is too long preferably use two methods i mean you can pick some potentially profitable altcoins around a few months or a year and still do a good analysis, and you can also choose bitcoin or any altcoin you think give good yields or good returns in the long run and don't put your eggs in one basket and do those two methods, like me.

If you hold top and good coins which has solid foundation like-DOT, LINK, BNB, ADA, SOL, MATIC will be gainer in the long run. I am also holding few top coins for considering long term investment. I believe top coins have future but we have to avoid holding shitcoins because it has no future. I have lost huge capital in shitcoins when i entered into crypto as a new but i am now investing only top and solid projects although solid projects give less profits than shitcoins in shot term.

I think it happened when BSC began to rise in the market in my own opinion. Aside from that there are also a lot of new altcoins arise
here in crypto space in which is obviously better than the old coins where before it was listed as top and now its no longer at top just like
what you had stated in the above(NEM). So holding coins for 5 years its too long I think 2 to 3 years is enough for holding in the long term.

Well, I think keeping the coins for 5 years is kind of a signature to the loss. Except BTC, all other cryptocurrencies need to be updating and adapting people so that the prices up front justify something. For example, 5 years from now the BTC is the only certainty I have at the moment that it will be firm and strong. I can't explain it, but there is something related to BTC that few people know about that allows it to be the 1st in cryptocurrencie with few objective things. There are certainly faster, scalable, anonymous and even safer coins than BTC, however it hasn't threatened its 1st place yet. In resume, holding anything other than BTC for 5 years is totally risky.

When it comes to BNB and Ethereum I think there's no need to doubt it,
both coins are top coins and the future is indeed promising as you said,
other than that to hold it for a long time choosing coins like Bitcoin, Ethereum and BNB is very appropriate

everyone must research before buying crypto assets, especially for long-term investments. Of course, without taking a bigger risk, we must choose top market assets. because of the period of 5 years, we will not know how the market conditions for that long time.
only projects with good planning and market power we can be sure will last that long. BTC, BNB, and ETH I think will be good choices for the long term.

Holding is always a good idea and if you become patient for long term you will get a good return for sure .I think it will always good to invest on top 54 coin as you mentioned it could easily give you a good return for sure .I think you have made few losses on NEM but you will not have any losses if you invest on Eth ,ADA ,Ltc .Try to choose the best coin always it is easy way to earn .

I am one of those believers that holding will surely take you to reaping what you sow, if done right of course. Holding and practicing holding on with one’s patience is a challenging task in the course of waiting within five years. But the most crucial point of holding, is the decision to be made on what coin will be held. Holding will only be just fruitful if the right coin was researched on and picked in the first place.

Doing it the right way, by researching and studying how the assets will work with your target time frame. It helps a lot to manage holding your coin, knowing that even it will take that long the progress will continue,

It's between your trust and how you really understand the project and what are the usages that offers to adds up to the success of this industry.

Placing your money where your knowledge really good at, that will lead you to pick the right project to invest and hold for tha long term -target.

I recommend you to invest in bitcoin, eth, and bnb.  These three coins are the best coins and I believe the price will continue to rise because they have good fundamentals.  even if the market crashes, both eth, bitcoin, and bnb prices are just corrections.  I don't like other coins,  maybe the price goes up faster but the fundamentals are less, so if we invest long term the price  will go down.

I think holding 5 years is not an imagination. You just need to look after market sometimes to understand what going on and if your coin is not dying. It's not apply for bitcoin at this point i think tho.

those coins were good for long term purpose, and if we see price history every 4 years bitcoin ethereum and binance show solid growth . and for bitcoin it could rise more than 2x after halving, ethereum and binance will follow and move parallelly with bitcoin. for long term purpose better pick projects that have strong fundamental and they build utility and ecosystem.

In my opinion, the greatest investing pattern is to think like an investor with long-term accuracy. It is up to us to choose the Coin/token. I've only used it for 5 months with BNB, but it's proved to be effective. For the current circumstances, as you stated, we must pay attention to a variety of factors since, as you mentioned above regarding the NEM currency, anything may change at any time.

The mentality to not look at the market too often is not wrong but he needs to update himself at least weekly when it comes to the tokens he has chosen, we need to remember that those coins can change really quickly and it is not rare that they go through events that force them to reissue their tokens in a new blockchain, and if you do not do it before a period of time then you lose your tokens forever, this happens very frequently and I see many people complaining about losing their investment this way.

Yep, if we bought new tokens, we need to keep informed with its development. Otherwise we might lost our tokens once there is swap or anything else and we are late to notice it. The best choice for long term investment will be bitcoin or ethereum since those two coins are the major one therefore the big news must be spread massively if there is one. So we wont miss it.

you are right, it is better to keep the coins in short term. or trade at any time. hold too long in my opinion is a big bet with a high level of risk. it's true that anything can happen. maybe there are people who can profit a lot by keeping a coin for a long period of up to 4 or 5 years but I don't think it's effective where a coin can continue to decrease in price as you say.
better to trade or invest in the not too long term. it's a little better to minimize risk.

If you just see market cap and number on coinmarketcap for investment then you are looking wrong things. You should check the team, holders, future plans, and also the community. Because these are fundamentals things for a good project. I suggest you invest in Bitcoin OR Ethereum if you want to hold your investment for 5 years.

As my opinion 5 years is too much to hold. And if you want to hold make sure that it is potentially risen which sure there's a big chances to expand you're earnings.

If you wanna keep coins for 5 years, its mean long investment, you should choose big coins such as BTC, ETH (both is a must) and any big coin like BNB by binance or TRX by Tron network i suggest.
Why TRX ? Tron have survived since he was born until now, at top 10 almost 4 years, and nowadays, many NFT have bridge on Tron network, also have speed of transaction with small fee,  so for next 5 years, TRX will be good, maybe the next BNB is Tron, IMHO

NFT projects are too new for long-term investment.
it would be better if you choose top market assets such as BTC, ETH, and BNB. in 5 years I believe there will be a big change in the value of the investment made.

It's not if you keep ETH or BTC right ? in long investment we required to choose a very strong fundamental coins to make big profits. Don't make any speculation on coin that will be good in the future, just choose the coin that already good right now and that will minimize the doubtness of the long run investment

from your story I see you chose the wrong coin you invested. NEM doesn't have good potential for 5x of current price, better still invest in ethereum, bnb or tron which has potential for 5x of current price for next 5 years.

that's the best reason why OP should have BTC and ETH in his long-term investment.
Buying assets from a new project for the long term is like a gamble that is most likely to lose. avoid it.

Sure man. Indeed one of the main points and strengths of BTC and ETH helps you to keep motivate in the long sense. BTC and ETH is always good investment if you believe in long term. It's the best thing you can do right now as we are in bear market. Most people do the same thing, you can do the same thing.

Aiming for long-term,  if you remember what happened from the last 10 years most of those investors who choose to keep their assets enjoyed a lots of profits investing with Bitcoin and ETH.

This two crypto assets  brings good success to each traders and investors who believes from the fundamentals that this two assets offers.

If you wanted to lessen your doubts and worries, since you are looking for long-term engagement better to keep this two coins then add which other alts you think that also have that great potentials.

5 years is not a short time, so you should really choose the right coin for investment.  Altcoins that are well known to many people, I choose altcoins that move to follow the bitcoin rally movement and don't forget to monitor all the time so as not to miss the opportunity to reap profits

Correct when it comes to long term investments nothing really beats bitcoin and ethereum but so many people simply do not get this and think that any altcoin can perform the same function without understanding this is not the case, and it is a shame because those people miss a lot of things, in fact I remember cases in which the coins skyrocketed for months and those kind of people did not realized until too late and by the time they did the price of the coin had crashed already.

Setting any time frame is rediculous.  It doesnt allow you to judge current markets.  5 years the coin you are holding could be extinct.  So many things happen in months, weeks and even days in which you might need to change your positions.  Crypto, especially alts, is not a set it and forget it game.

When it comes to hodling then it doesnt mean anytime that it would really be successful and this is where risk management do plays and also with a little mix of experience.

You should be wise on when to get in and  when to get out because chances or odds of a certain project to die is always been an unsure thing because everything would really be varying with the demand.

HOlding will vary because it would be on personal choice and decisions in life so theres no precise numbers on here.

We’re not in a bear market, we’re just cooling off after going too high, too fast in the first part of 2021. Just relax & wait, if you waited 5 years you can wait another few months which is when this bull run will heat up again.

The long term investment is easier than the short term, but you are right, monitoring is very important as altcoins are less stable compared to bitcoin, in altcoins, the CEO could go scam which would not happen to bitcoin since its founder is anonymous and bitcoin is there and cannot be tampered, that's why it's a better long term investment than altcoins.

However, based on price trends, altcoins are more profitable in long term hold, so that's a positive them, but it's riskier so always pay attention t the market condition.

I just can’t agree more. Hype products like dogecoin are only for trading, and as soon as hype ends and people forget about them, they will die. And only projects with innovative ideas will survive, so we definitely should investigate the idea, docs and development team before investing.  8)

If you hold the top coins like Eth, BNB, Cake just that has use cases there will be no problem to hold for long you will make big profit of the top coins but are you willing to hold the coin straight for 5 years? I think it's better to check always your coins so that you will not miss the bull run and buy back when the market is bear.

Holding a particular coin at 5 years is sometimes not a guarantee of profit during a bull market, NEM coins have slumped in the Marketcap rankings after 5 years. Even if you have made a choice of coins to keep for the long term, you should check the coins annually or monthly.

If one can hold the top 1 coin, you one will benefit from it. The top bitcoin will come at a time when it will be double the previous price. And then everyone will use BTC as a common currency.

I had the same problem with buying some EOS blockchain. EOS CEO was changed, but finally I sold for a little profit. You shouldn't leave a crypto announcement because sometimes you could lose your whole fund for swap features. Following Telegram or Twitter will be enough, if you want to hold your altcoins for 5 years. I don't suggest anyone hold 5 years because altcoins opportunities are always changing.

I believe the same but there are many people that cannot wait any longer, many people bought at the top or near the top and they are desperate, after all they invested money they could not afford to lose and every single day in which the price of bitcoin does not move or it goes down it is another day in which they are thinking about selling their coins and eventually they will do so, which is a shame as I think the bull market we will see at the end of the year will be massive.

Its not a shame because there are calls which are really that give a good call because price movement cant really be predicted and there are really times which you would really be making some good stop loss
or panic sell but somehow these movements or decisions isnt really always giving a good outcome.

Cutting losses is same goes in talks of panic selling but what differs them that one is involved with emotion and one is involved with analysis.

Holding long isnt everybody's genre or preference and its not really that surprising that each of us would have corresponding decision into some situation.

You can choose a cryptocurrency with a long history of development and complete technology, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. They have strong technical support and long-term development has withstood the test of time and the market, it is difficult to beat. More people are investing and demanding so that it has great development potential and room for appreciation.
The emergence of a large number of altcoins is relatively risky, and the investment and trading time should be selected according to market trends to reduce the risk.

The cryptocurrency market is volatile. If we want to hold a coin for a long time, we must choose a currency with a long development time and a strong foundation with perfect technical support, and keep abreast of the market conditions and price trends of the coins we hold.

Choosing a coin that is good for long term holding is really necessary if we dont want to lose our hard-earned money. Most of the coins existing nowadays are just here because of the hype and has no utility to survive the different market situation.

Established coins are the best choice for long term investment because they already prove something that other coins dont have. Although it takes time to profit atleast they're unlikely to be delisted in exchanges.

Absolutely, especially if you choose the coins that has a good fundamentals for a long term investment. Holding is a great technique when the market price goes down to not lose the money you earned for a long time because as I observed, coins that exist nowadays are the coins who follows trade ideas and especially those trends in the market and has no utility to survive to different market situations.
Those coins that are really trusted are the best choice for a long term investment because as the years goes by, they already had proven something in the crypto currency world where people really wants to be in it. Even though sometimes it takes time to make a profit in those trusted coins but at least it give such a small amount or price.

maybe in fact the more appropriate planning is the determination of profit or loss. we can determine the selling price and buying price in the investments we make.
because the time planning is sometimes not under the correlation of market conditions. when we wait for a long time and ignore the big pump with the profit in the beginning I don't think it will be good for the investment made.
just believe the fallen market will rise again. from any circumstances we will see the assets we have will grow back.

only people who have a high level of patience are able to hold coins for years, in such a long duration we will indeed be faced with several possibilities, instead of looking for profit on one coin we end up losing, so in diving in the crypto market we always  required with the right reference so that our time and money are not wasted.

But the fact is that there are not a few who do not have knowledge about it,
and what's worse sometimes those who don't know which coin is good for the long term or short term ask others for advice without studying it first

If you are going to invest a fortune in a coin then chances are high that you won't hold this long as  the risk is increased over time.
If I use bitcoin as my reference, people bought btc when it was worth peanuts and imagine investing only $200 by now that's worth a lot. With today's coins it's really difficult to get these kind of ROI that bitcoin has produced.
All I know is that for newer coins it could even be difficult to get a 1000X and I will say holding for 5 years is imaginary.

You are good analysts buddy.
One can't just wake up one day and decide to invest in trend because others are buying it and decide to hold for 5 years.
During 2017/18 bull run, I know so many projects and I anticipate to buy and hold them for long time though I didn't have the funds then ;D
I have search the whole coin market cap and I can't seem to find/locate most of them. They have been dilisted due to low demand and trading volume, some has been exploited while some ended up as a scam despite the huge beginning of projects development.

Do keep in mind that not all of the coins are benefit for 5 years of hodl. If the team and supporters are losing its faith then it's over.

If you would like to invest some, then invest it on some already good one such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. I'm even surprised if those new coins even survive in next 1 year despite majority of them have shady business and roadmap going on right now. Although it's not all of them, I would be really careful if I would like to hodl the coins.

They can do that but they do not want to do so and the reason is that they think those two coins cannot give huge profits anymore, now bitcoin did a 12x in just a year and while that is huge many people are trying to make fortunes with just a couple of dollars so they needs coins that do 100x or even 1000x, and with that in mind they are looking for new coins as those are the only ones that can do anything remotely close to that, but unfortunately the majority that tries to hold those coins for that long will just lose their money.

i think that saying that you're going to hold for 5 years does not make any sense, you have to hold depending on the market and the news which everyone holding should be aware of, holding for 5 years is like gambling, you don't know what could happen, but you hold hoping for the best.

Holding for 5 years is a very long job and even some people find it annoying to wait for the passage of time for 5 years, because how many events will we see in the market during those 5 years, so it can only be done by people who have the patience extra and never complained about any condition in his life.

A friend of mine has a good mentality. After buying the tokens, he didn't look at the market often. He told me that after buying it, he would treat it as if he had no tokens. This mentality is worth learning.
However, five years is too long. If you want to hold for a long time, you must first understand the future of currency. If you are confident in this coin, please stick to it. After all, five years is not too short. It is safest to choose mainstream currencies. If you find a good time, you can try to stick to it.

5 years is a long time, if we invest at the right time, maybe we will get the maximum profit, but if in 5 years there is a price correction we might get a profit that is not maximal. for me as long as there is a new ATH formation then I will release some assets, and some I hold maybe more than 5 years depending on the market situation later

Long-term hold of up to 5 years is very profitable, of course only coins that already have a high reputation such as bitcoin, ethereum, BNB, Crypto.com, TRON and so on, it's too risky if we hold long-term coins that are still new because according to my experience there are many dead or frozen in the market.

Nip remains worthy hodling after 5 years, as seen by the achievements. Our five best coins don't always function as well in the future, but they will finish in top spot as soon as the improvements are well-executed.

I salute to those who are still hodling up that many years, it's not that easy especially when you talk about big investments. much like stock market. It's sounds imaginative but its possible and true, I know some people still hodling up and they are doing well so far

Long-term investments are investments made by companies or individuals over a long period of time (generally more than 1 year).
Usually, the long-term investment goal is to prepare for future finances, such as retirement costs, children's school fees or to grow the wealth assets owned by individuals or corporations.
Long-term investors generally spend less time monitoring the movement of the value of their assets, so even for long-term investments you still have to monitor the movement of your assets.

i think you have a good point but i boils down to what coin you are holding. i will always hold on to blockchain and smart contract tokens. tokens like ethereum, binance, Ada and co. Also it is good to follow thrends and know emerging technologies in crypto. i think defi is here to stay and it is along term investment. don't just invest because you saw the token in the top 10. you can take a look at EOS and NEO. they are gradually leaving the top 10 and will eventually leave.

Many success stories now appear because they hold up to 5 years or more, those who bought and held Ethereum 5 years ago when the price was below $10 of course would get huge profits up to 340x, I think 5 years is the right time to invest, I will hold ethereum , BNB and Solana because they believe they can skyrocket.

I agree with you 100%, for holding for such a long period, you can only advise to enter bitcoin or fairium, these two resistant coins have already proven to everyone that they can show growth every new year, all other coins should not be invested for such a long time term. Some projects will be scammed even after a year of successful work, although the idea and goals were completely different in them.

For me, the TOP 5 coins that I need to keep for the next 5 years are;
number 1; Crypto digital asset Telcoin (TEL) registers a 239% price increase
2nd; this week's top gainers, Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) recorded a price increase of up to 221% with a market cap of almost US$ 1.5 billion
the 3rd; Ethereum Classic (ETC) which is also up more than 200%. The difference with the two previous tokens is that the market capitalization value of ETC has reached almost US$ 14 billion
to 4; there Dogecoin has soared almost 100% in the last seven days ahead of Tesla boss Elon Musk's appearance on Saturday Night Live (SNL)
to 5; there is a QTUM coin that shot up 69%. When compared to TEL and BCD, QTUM's market capitalization value is still larger because it almost reaches US$ 2.5 billion

Among eth and bnb I am focused on few coins which have real product. They are Axis, Wpp , Foobee, Socialnft and one more I am checking details. best way is dyor before long term investment.

The example you gave to prove your point is not right. It's not like with every potential coin but it's hard to predict the coin we hold will have good value after 5 years or will lose its value. Not only top 5 coins are good but there are many other good coins that are booming in the current market. I think hardly 1% of investors hold to the same coin for 5 years but it is possible with Btc holding as BTC is the most trusted in the crypto market.

Traders do not hold the same coin for a long time anyway. 5 years is not a very long time, but a lot can change in 5 years. A coin that is one of the top 3 coins can be completely trash, or a coin with no expectations can go very high, no one knows. This is one of the reasons why cryptocurrencies are so exciting :)
Bitcoin and Ethereum are coins that should be in everyone's portfolio. All of the people who invested 5 years ago preferred these coins anyway :D

Well, that's the cycle of cryptocurrency here in this industry. Besides, in my own opinion 5 years its too long for me to be honest only.
1 or 2 years for me is very long term to hold. But of course, it is still in our hand if were gonna earn a lot in the future depending in the coins that we are going hold. Even the coins is not in the list of top 5 I think there are other coins remain good to hold in the long term.

Long term investment is always beneficiary. It might be in a bank or in crypto currency. But yes seeing Bitcoin's growth, with more confidence, we can invest in it and hold it for minimum 3 years or 5 years. It might be on any best coin. Banks do give around 6 to 7% interest for saving money for 3 years. Whereas, when the same amount is invested in crypto, double the profit is going to happen. 

I believe in long term investment but in a very popular coin like bitcoin and etherium. When i invested more way back few years ago, i believe that i am totally rich right now but the sad thing is, i did not believe in long term investment few years ago... that is why, i am not rich until now and just the same few years ago. Maybe, my status already change if i did an ivestment right.

I think it's too risky to hold on for 4-5 years. but I think it can be done as long as the person is patient. because what is needed now is patience in holding long-term and ready to take any risks.

Depends on the coins you've been holding but it cant really be resisted that there are times which we do really like to sell off our holdings specially if we do see the price had really reach out all time highs.
Try to compared off those people who had been holding bitcoin and on the time that it did break that 20k previous ATH then for sure lots of people had sell off their holdings but what matters here is that
you do able to accumulate while its still cheap and able to sell out if it do ever reach another all time high.Its not already talking about holding but rather actively trading.
5 years is indeed long but there are people who had reached out this duration.

It is much better if you look at a different angle whenever you checkout a cryptocurrency and see how viable it is to be stored for a long time. If you just rely on the market cap and the rank number on some popular ranking site then you are not researching it the right way. You have to check the holders, the community, the team of developers, and also different aspects of the project. But also you might want to consider investing in the gold and silver of crypto - Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Choosing to hold for 5 years is a very long time. For long-term investment, you must first study the market before investing and choose cryptocurrencies with a long development time and strong technical support, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Altcoins are more risky and have imperfect technology. Don't choose altcoins for long-term investment. Research and choose the currency to invest in and invest at the right time. Long-term holding will make high profits when the price rises.

I think experience is the main thing here and history will continue to repeat itself with a note that every project that survives will definitely follow developments at that time and not focus on the same thing. that's why some of the projects that were above were replaced with new projects because they didn't see developments or trends at that time.

if it is for the very long term why don't you just hold the core btc and eth coins instead. I think it's the safest choice for the long term right now, eth is called the originator of smart contracts, and btc is the parent of all cryptos.

My point is to only choose cryptocurrencies that offer unique technologies or have a strong fundamental, not just some copy-pasta altcoins. If we do acknowledge such things it is surely that cryptocurrency has the potency in the long term. Offering technologies based on the demand of the market is surely what sounds comprehensible, but that should be based on the fundamentals, I mean like the technologies itself must maintain and preserve the decentralization.

It all depends on the capability and potential of the coin but as for me, 5 years is beyond the average time of waiting. If you're holding a good coin then I must say that 5 years wouldn't be a waste. You only have to keep a positive mindset and patience upon waiting.

What is the significance of NEM? Keep BTC or ETH to watch the results in the next 5 to 10 years; usually rarely fail. The royal couple of crypto are the greatest assets to keep for many generations to follow; almost every coin may probably lose its place.

You are right that the top of currencies is updated all the time: some years ago I saw that Ripple, Ethereum classic, Litecoin and maybe Bitcoin Gold were in top, but now they are replaced by BNB and Solana, so we can’t rely even on those coin that are popular at this moment.

What I can say for sure is that Bitcoin and Ethereum are always number one and two respectively, so we can invest in them for the long-term as well.

As far as I know the NEM coin is in level 4, which is a good investment level for the coming year, and here's a list of Cryptocurrencies Eligible for Investment in 2021
2.1 #1 Bitcoin (BTC)
2.2 #2 Ethereum (ETH)
2.3 #3 Litecoins (LTC)
2.4 #4 NEM
2.5 #5 Basic Attention Token (BAT)
2.6 #6 Binance Coin (BNB)
2.7 #7 VidyCoin
2.8 #8 NEO
2.9 #9 EOS
2.10 #10 Tron (TRX)
2.11 #11 Cardano
2.12 #12 Dogecoin
2.13 #13 Ripple
2.14 #14 Uniswap
2.15 #15 Bitcoin Cash
  and the kion coins above have been included in the best analysis by Cryptocurrency experts that have existed in recent years and even some of the coins above have been proven to reach investment targets that are proven to be good

for this year indeed most of the altcoins showed very good performance in the market. including the assets you mentioned.
choosing them will not go wrong, because the project is already underway and the market is already strong.
but in long-term planning, we will not know the state of the asset in the market. because market trends move dynamically and constantly change. We can't think 5 years in the future, we will be in the same trend as this year which is full of pump rallies.

Do some research on top altcoins value 5 years back and use that to judge what their values are today? Saying holding is a imagination is wrong, even those who buy coins in 2020 pandemic period ( A year ago ) are glad they did because they did so well, the truth is you have no problem if you hold the right coins and tokens

All I can finally say about this discussion that has long since been bugging all of cryptoland, the question whether if it is ok or totally fine to HODL. 5 years and more is already considered HODL for me and many have already expressed their approval about such holding of assets would be beneficial in the long run - provided you are investing in the right coin. Bitcoin and Ethereum for me are the top picks for holding for 5 years. Accumulate assets for 5 years and then see how it increases in time.

Holding 5years is a win wn situation,it test your patience as well it makes you earn but will atill depend on what coins we have, we can track ICOs or coins tgat are listed 5years ago that may not be around anymore so if we plan to hold we must still be updated on the happenings of that coin, we must know if there are changes plan or improvements to make to keep their coin last for more than 5years.

holding back 5 years for a new project is too risky. we probably won't see it on the market in 5 years. we can see so many altcoins having such cases. only survive in 2-3 years of initial development they then disappear.
for the long term, why not choose a popular asset that has been proven to last in the market for a long time? I think it will further minimize the risk of losing the value of our investment.

Holding eth for 5 years at current prices I think it still makes sense because it has more interesting potential and uses than other Altcoins. ETH has a confident platform and ecosystem for the next 5 years. I'm surely,, especially ETH will update to ETH 2.0 also known as Serenity but before invest your money for a long time you must prepare for the worst scenario in the future

For me, it is not a dream to hold my coins for a time period like 5 years. I prefer to hold Bitcoin and some top altcoins for a long time period. Because I believe that it is much more logical to make a lot of profit. Patience is the most important thing for the investors. Especially if you are a HODLer, you should already have no problem with waiting for a long time.

when we are going to do a long term holding say 5 years maybe we should really think about what coin is the best. because the position of the coin will be shifted every year with the latest new coins and have a good market community. so analysis is better before doing long term holding

One thing that makes to hold for a long haul is that being restlessness, advertised. There are times that when the coins that we are contributing got advertised then we will go sell it, there is no off-base for this thing in case you are looking at putting resources into an image coin that just got high due to the advertised. It very well may be valuable for you on the off chance that you have an essential programming/innovations and cryptography information overall.

Cryptocurrency holders are always benefiting. Long-term holders are the most profited. If you can invest in some good project for the long time, maybe some of these investments can change your life. You can become much richer. Holders of the long run wins all the time

My opinion about holding for long term is to make sure you are holding coin that will not disappear or be abandoned.  The question now is how to know which coin will continue to exist beyond five years?  Nobody knows.  The simple solution here is to hold bitcoin  if you are going to hold for long term!  Holding however could be very profitable,  provided a good coin is held!

there are coins that can be maintained 1 year to 5 years, it all depends on the road map. but not all coins can be maintained for a very long time. I think the coin that you hold (NEM) can still be maintained because for now it still has a price in the market and there are still many NEM enthusiasts, and that allows NEM to ATH

we don't know what will happen in the future, maybe NEM tokens will be back in the top 10 market cap coins and make you double profits. as long as you don't sell the tokens you hold during the bear market then you have nothing to lose. many people have proven that being a holder is an advantage, if you persist and believe then you can become rich in the future.

This is related to the mentality of crypto traders and investors, especially in times of correction. That's why it's highly recommended to look for the fundamentals to prove good, meaning buy them and hold on to them long term, but there's one thing to keep in mind the future no one can know for sure.

With a term of 4.5 years, this is too long to hold an Altcoin. in crypto determines the time in long-term investments to hold that Altcoin based on setting profit targets. Everyone can wait 4.5 years with clear goals, but just speculating is a waste of time too. Altcoins that we hold can be pumped when it reaches 2 years, so want to hold it again? If I will sell it because it is clear that the investment objective is a profit.

From that perspectives, only coins that have good development can survive with that long period, maybe NEM still exist but the competition inside the market is really high, without continues updates new projects will beat you and overthrown you to the point that interest coming from investors will be push away. It's hard for every developers but if they are serious in taking the challenged, they will not allow things like this to happen, Bitcoin and ETH still have that huge capabilities to stay strong and still keep the tops spot in terms of long-term investment.

Let's collect some of these coins such as BSC, ADA, BTC, NEM and ETH to see what happens in the next 5 years,
it takes patience and consistency to hold the coin for the next 5 years, especially if you see the value getting higher, as long as there is no news of a scam coming out for the coins we hold then I will hold it until the target price reaches success for profit

Maybe it can be hard for many people to hold their coins for a long time period like five years. But it is actually not like that for me. Because I can make various investments. For example, I can invest into Ethereum by setting a price goal and I would sell my coins when the goal is achieved. And I can invest into it with the aim of holding the coins for years.

If we only believe in the top 5. 5 coins the current top 5 is only the coins that get new positions. Only Bitcoin and Ethereum remain unchanged. The Cardano coin is currently in a good position. If the emergence of a new blockchain that is stronger than Cardano, the coin will again experience a change in position, and of course the price of the coin will also be lower. Look at the coins that have future potential, and the platform is mass-adopted, so the price of the coin will continue to increase. Perhaps the 5th position right now is Ripple, while USDT is just a stable coin that is unlikely to experience price changes. USDT position changes depending on the price of the coin. Whereas Ripple is a coin that has price swings, I don't think Ripple's position is safe. As happened with Tron before. From position 11 CMC to position 25. Isn't this something bad.

Not all would really be that hodler in mind because there are some or i can say most of them do have those kind of plans but when the market dips then they are easily been shaken which is a very common scenario.

Holding 5 years isnt an imagination because there are people who indeed able to do so but only a few do manage to do that and some of them had totally forgot their investment and remember it out after a couple of years or simply unintentional.

This is something a personal kind of goals in mind and if you are really that serious then you are the ones who do able to prove it out.

In crypto, any change happens very quickly. The excitement around a project can quickly subside, if only because a similar but more advanced project appears. Therefore, you need constant monitoring of your investment portfolio. On the other hand, if you have free money and you like any coin (NEM or something else), you can continue to hold it for a couple of years, hoping for its revival.

Long term hold is good for a coin that has a good potential in the future, if a certain coin struggles now, it doesn't mean it has no good future, every project pass in that kind of time but as the team continues to work for the improvement of the project, time will come that it will pump and investors who bought during the dip will be lucky to cash out with a decent profit.

I'm not anymore a holder of NEM now, but this project is an old project, it survive so it would likely pump as its time will come.

Well, there is no hard and fast rule to hodling. It may pay off and it may not. But in a business sense, it doesn't pay off. Those same coins could be liquidated for more profitable coins which are trending. But then I'm not you

Four years ago, I bought RLC tokens (iExec) for the ICO price and have held them to this day. The first three years, their price was not particularly pleasing, but this year the tokens showed good growth. I will continue to hold because I consider this project to be one of the outstanding ones.

If a person does have a large capital and he is very confident in the development of the alcoin, I think it's definitely not a problem, but for someone who is easily indecisive then this will be difficult for him. So much now that I see altcoins for the next 5 years will be good for long term investments.

I'm in support of this motion of yours. One doesn't necessarily need to hodl for that long except for the Top 5-10 that feel the urge of breaking their ATH. Bitcoin, ETH, BNB to be precise.

These are the top 3 coins for me too although Cardano has overtaken BNB already in the ranking per https://coinmarketcap.com/. In the long run, a coin that has a better development will stay consistent and probably improve its ranking and I believe BNB and ETH will only be the tough competitor in the altcoins ranking, at least they'll rank in 1 or 2.

I don't think there are quantifiable long-term holdings. Although, the investment plans have been balanced, but for a trend that grows as strong and fast as bitcoin, the more patience will pay off, the longer it means holding. you have more profit. It will surpass imagination at 100k, what happens

I'm not sure how the rest of the top altcoins will change, but only bitcoin will have to be a new ATH to facilitate that.

Holding for 5 years is a lot of time. I do not think I can do that and I can not advice anyone to do that either not even with bitcoin. 5 months is okay to hold a coin and then sell it or take out your capital first. We have witnessed coins which was top get to lose market patronage and then drop down to have little or no value afterwards. Holding a coin for that long will not mean you can make better profit from it. Sell when you have the opportunity to do that.

With showing success and more to developed from these two top projects, it applies that if you are aiming for long-term investment, both are good even if it takes that long. Though the idea from the top of this post to hold top 5-10 coins in rankings is also possible, if those assets are not stopping and keep doing their best to stay inside the competition.

The problem way back is, those well known top assets are no longer performing or the adjustment with new innovations are lacking. Unlike with BNB and ETH who offer services that are now being enjoyed by the end users.

Although I admit that many people find it difficult to hold coins for 5 years, that doesn't mean no one has done it. I believe for rich people, who already
have a lot of assets and stable finances, it won't be a problem holding coins for 5 years. Because of the difficulty of holding in the long term, usually for
people who have middle to lower finances, because they often have an urgent need. Everyone has their own strategy to be able to make a profit
from cryptocurrency, I appreciate people who intend to hold coins for 5 years, but make sure to choose coins that are popular and have high volume
if we want long-term holding. I'm like you prefer holding not too long, if it's a profit I will immediately sell it and buy again when the price drops.
Because I choose to make a small profit, but it can be continuous and if the profit I get is collected, it can be big too.

Taking profit at times are a wise thing to do even you plan to hold for long period. I often say whats the point of holding if you dont enjoy your earnings? We never know what lies ahead regardless if the coins that you currently hold are well-established or has potential to have a drastic growth in the future. Still, the future is uncertain thus dont forget to take profit while keep on holding.

This is why diversification is important?

You don't want to just be bagholding one or two coins that could completely destroy your long term position if they fail - you want to be holding 10, 20 coins that are well established/have good prospects across multiple usage cases.

NEM also suffered a historical failure, which is part of the reason why its price is suppressed.

Well, if you can't, you're surely do it if you see those coins that you have are increasing in value. My tip to you is just don't sell all that you have.

When you're about to sell, do it in many times. Don't sell all in one time but if you're selling, do it with little and little so that you'll still have to hold some. 5 years is quite long for those that might not be in crypto for years but you'll be able to see the future on that long if you're optimistic on the cryptos you hold.

This depends on the adequacy of your daily cash needs, if for daily is enough, it is possible to hold it 5 years or even more.
I also still have old coins sitting in the corner of my Ethereum wallet, almost 4 years there, not selling any of them because the price is still low.
so holding for a long time is very possible, depending on the adequacy of your daily needs.

Or just search the good coins to begin with like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
5 years are a long damn ass time to hold especially in this cryptocurrency world. You stated in 2018 so everything was just a hype back then and if the project is not being known by the community then it's just pointless.

Also do make sure you have another income source to back up those investment in case you need it urgently, because you don't know what you expect in 5 years.

It's best to have other sources of funds when aiming for long-term investment, it's easy to allow the cycle that keeps happening inside the market, if you dedicated your money for long-term investment, it should stay there no matter what the market comes up, not in a daily basis but better setting your target.

The statement about changing paces is true, and that coin is a good example of a project who cannot compete in the long run. Unlike with BTC and ETH it's been proven by time.

Make sure to go deeply with an asset that you are eyeing to invest your money. The more understanding you have, the more trust you can spare.

Not all coins have the same fate as you say. Indeed NEM coin in 2018 with the highest price is $2. But the highest price on a bull run this year was $0.8. This means that the NEM coin is experiencing a major setback. In 2018 the number of coins in the exchange was not so much as it is today. So that the bullrun of certain coins gives a high value. However the bull run in 2021 puts 3x value on certain coins, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB and others. These are the coins that have had a 2018 bull run along with NEM coins. This means that holders still have a positive impact, but not for all altcoins.

I think it all depends on what coin you are holding, if the coin has good prospects it will be profitable. on the other hand, if it has a bad prospect then it is meaningless, and I think also keeping the coin for 5 years is long enough and for the coin, the prospect of the coin should be seen whether it is good or not. It's hard to accept the fact that I've been holding an old coin and it hasn't paid off because I feel that way too and it stresses me out a bit. but you don't need to think too far and for now you should focus more on good coins and follow legit projects so that the results are also good, maybe that's all from me.

I also agree with those who hold for five years will definitely guarantee big profits. This can be understood by the growth that has occurred with various cryptocurrencies in the past. To date, users who have persisted for several years have made huge profits from cryptocurrencies. I continue to advise my friends to save little by little and take profits with a long-term focus.

Since Bitcoin was launched the movement happening in Crypto is almost always the same every year and if we look back it is very valuable to keep coins for long term especially for 5 years period but we have to be more careful when the time is. good time to buy coins That's because for long term plans, we buy coins at low prices so we can hold them for a long time.