You've just given a proper answer to OP, I am happy with your response because a lot of people don't even know the reason why Bitcoin is freedom because basically you have access to it, transact any amount you want, hodl it as long as you wish to provided they are kept in a safe non custodial wallets and your seed phrases kept safe. The best decision anyone of this modern day technology can take is to invest in Bitcoin in order to become autonomous of their financial decisions without intervention of the government or any third party organization. Bitcoin is surely an end to fiat currencies because as soon as it's adoption is accepted globally, fiat will become valueless.

Not everyone is waiting for a new ATH, perhaps a new ATH was already created before the halving so even if another ATH should be expected it will not happen anytime soon and there are still investors that are also waiting for a dip in order to acquire more Bitcoins so the expectation of everyone differs and not just waiting for a new ATH to happen besides there are still long term hodlers that are not interested in Bitcoin creating a new ATH again but they just want to continue hodling or better still expecting a dip for them to increase their portfolio the more.

Sure miners gets some advantage when the price skyrockets because at that point a lot of transactions happen from those that wants to withdraw their Bitcoins from exchanges and those selling their coins as well so the traffic they generates lead to high transaction fees for easier confirmation in a block which is beneficial to miners.

No one knows if the market will respond positively or not but to the highest of my knowledge, the market is determined by itself whether it will be positive or not and it also depends on the demand of investors because basically, if the demand is high it affects the price positively but just as you stated, it requires patience before we can start experiencing positivity in the market just like when spot Bitcoin ETFs were approved, the approval didn't had any effect immediately but after some time we started experiencing significant increase in the price of Bitcoin which even led to Bitcoin creating a new ATH.

Sometimes I also wonder why people try to diversify to other form of investment that is lesser than the one they already own, basically diversifying from Bitcoin to shitcoins how does that even sound in the ear in the first place? However, if you must want to diversify your investment let it be on an asset that is worth it or worth more than Bitcoin and to me I don't even see any digital investment that is worth more than Bitcoin except maybe some real life projects that have high potential values and returns just like real estate so that is the kind of investment to diversify to instead of shitcoins because I just see shitcoins like a distraction for anyone who is committed to owning a huge portfolio in his Bitcoin holdings.

Investing on shitcoins has caused a lot of people emotional damages even one of my cousin who was into Bitcoin before me told me that I should never give shitcoins a trial any day no matter how much i have because he has wasted thousands of dollars on shitcoins but what did he got in return? Losses. Never will I diversify my Bitcoin investment to shitcoins except if it is an asset that has more value than Bitcoin and for now I've seen none.

It is not as if you shouldn't sell your holdings but let it be at a time that it has yielded good fruits and selling off everything is not a good idea, you know there is not way we can HODL forever because if you hodl without selling to also equip yourself with some real life investments why still hodling some part of your stashes. Normally, investments are full of risk and any investor that have a proper knowledge of how investments work will know that there are times when you make losses but that doesn't mean your investment goals have been defeated. If you must sell your holdings let it be that you have acquired in large quantity such that even if you are not able to keep buying again, the stashes you've got can serve as long as you wish to hodl.

Like I don't really understand why some people are so adamant in accepting a fact, and I just see that the reason most times is because they find it difficult to go through others reply in a thread like how can someone just bump into a thread that is centered on hodling Bitcoin and basic strategies required for long term investment and be making some kind of nasty stuffs, when there are spaces they can channel it to instead coming here to prove a baseless point even ordinarily looking at the subject alone should send a signal about the potential discussion going on here. It's so bad that some people chose to attend events they are not invited, lol

Exactly we learn from other people's mistakes that is why it is good to make a proper investment plan for the future because they are what you will look up to when you are not working anymore due to retirement or old age when the strength to work is no longer there. I feel sorry for some old lettered people in the society, if they tell you their stories you will marvel like you will see someone that once worked in a government house becoming so helpless and what i discovered in the part of region i come from is that most of the educated people in the society only thinks about investing in their children hoping for them to take care of them at old age and this has been a very wrong practice that has been going on for sometime now.
Investing in human is not bad but let it not be that we are going to look up to them to stand as aid in the future therefore while investing on human capacity, let us also invest on more real life projects that will become beneficial to us tomorrow. Am investment lifestyle is a road map to good living in the future.

We know that the high transactions fees was because of so much congestion but what I really don't understand is that how long with it take this runes and ordinals to stop spamming the network because this is really making things very difficult for everyone and it's not funny anymore, paying high fees for a transaction to be confirmed is really worrisome and this continues congestions have led to so many people choosing exchanges over non custodial wallets which pose a security threat to their assets because they can't be trusted on exchanges.

Trading Bitcoin is just almost same as trading or selling your most valuable assets in life because you will find out that you may not be able to afford buying it back again and even if you buy it again you will buy at a price higher than the amount you sold it. Bitcoin is a valuable asset that if you trade it you may run losses, let's consider a scenario where you buy Bitcoin when the price was $50k and sold at $70k yeah you have made some profits then let's assume the price dip to $60k and you are anticipating the price to reach like $90k before you resell again and unfortunately after you buy the price starts experiencing massive dip up to $30k and due to fear and anxiety of losing everything you now decide to sell at that price haven't you incurred losses? this is the reason why trading Bitcoin is not advisable.

We should understand that Bitcoin being a volatile asset, even if you buy at a dip and the price dips further since you are holding for a long term, the price will definitely bounce back and surpass the rate by which you bought it with and your profits will be secured.

The reason why most people prefer to store their coins on exchanges is due to the difficulty they face why withdrawing their coins from non custodial wallets to exchanges because of high transactions fees and congestion in mempool that basically takes more time even days before transactions are confirmed and is not everyone that is hodling Bitcoin as majority of people are just interested in swapping their Bitcoins to fiat especially when they have recorded a little profit.
The percentage of hodlers is very low because most of the people that uses non custodial wallets are long term investors so they prefer to store there coins for a long interval knowing too well that they can have access to their coins anytime with the use of their seed phrases.
But for short term hodlers, they mostly use exchanges for easier transactions.

I just got to know that you don't even read what is happening here before you make post, basically, from the subject matter here we are actually discussing about buying and hodling and not some form of short term trading, even if you trade and you make a whole lots of profits from it fine it's your choice but you should know where and when to channel your opinion accordingly, we have the trading section of the forum so if you want any discussion about trading that will be the right place for you to channel your opinion because doing it here makes you go against the forum rule of posting off topics replies.

Yeah there are people who makes trading their hobby such that they are always at alert watching the market and using different signals to target the market fluctuations but do you choose what will deprive you from doing other things simply because you ard busy watching over the activities of the market and it can lead to being too addicted to trading.
It's very clear that all what you are trying to entice others to do is to give them the idea that they can get rich quick by practicing trading but I want to tell you that you had better embrace hodling for a long term because the day your trading strategies will fail you, though I don't pray for that to happen to you but you should know that Bitcoin is the key to wealth creation and it's only when we are fully involved that we can have the taste of it.

Trading may not work for you all the time and when the losses begins you may lose much more than you gained and possibly lose your capital too, so hodling is the sure way to go.

One of the things that makes beginners fall so easily to newly launched is projects is due to over anxiety and being too inquisitive to get quick wealth. We know that sometimes there are projects that are launched and at the launch o the project the early investors benefits and tries to persuade others to join just like what you said and when a lot of people invest in these projects you see that the price will begin to crash and before you know it a lot of people must have lost their money. Investing in newly launched projects is almost same as ponzi scheme that they will impress the first people that joined then when a lot of people invest in the ponzi scheme the system crashes and people lose a lot of money.
However a beginner is inexperienced of a project that is not scam so it is their duty to learn, ask questions and make sure they are equipped with necessary knowledge to guide them through while they are investing on those projects.

This is even the reason I stopped listening to Nigerian news because what is the essence of listening to a news and later they do otherwise or refuse to do what they preach. There is no agency in this country that has not been compromised one way or the other and I don't even know if we have a ministry of industry, trade and investment in this country because situations like this is where they are required to play important roles.

For me let the naira keep on rising if they don't want to reduce the price of things in the country because na all of us go suffer am together na, if you get garri dey sell am for high price athink you go need to go market go buy things wey you go take make soup chop your garri, the same way you take sell your garri na so you go take buy things wey you go take make soup so wayo no dey am at all.

If no be say people reduce to dey chop indomie and rice then for no even reduce the price because as them dey experience low patronage naim make them reduce the prices if not their mind hard like rock. Make Dem still continue to dey manipulate the naira anyhow Dem like na the common man naim I dey pity because all this things no dey touch rich men at all because Dem no dey experience hardship but make Dem know say all this things wey dem dey do na to endanger the country because the rate of crime go increase and people no go dey obey law and order for the country which is very bad because what will a lawless country become?  Ground of hoodlums, criminals, fraudsters, scammers, kidnapping and even fights for survival. This matter don tire person like this o

Actually, looking at previous halvings like that of 2016 and 2020 it took within 160 days before the bull run began but for the fact that ATH was created before this halving makes it difficult to predict when bull run will be speculated to occur because when we look at the last quarters of 2023 till now, you can agree with me that it has been a bullish period so now that the halving event has also occurred, there will be some oscillation in the price of Bitcoin and if you observed you will see that since the halving the price have not been too forward neither too backwards so some after halving corrections may occur before we can start experiencing the real bull run. But let's just expect the real bull run within 200 days after the halving

That's the reason why I don't like introducing anyone to anything that involves risk of losing money or anything that involves chances because they will put the blame on you when things go wrong. I have seen a friend laying curses on his cousin for introducing him into gambling because he became addicted to gambling to the extent he sold everything he had but to no avail.
Let me not move away from the discussion here, it is very wrong for you to introduce anyone to anything that has probability of gaining or losing but if they come to you to know you can teach them and also let them know the risk involved so that if they don't succeed they won't blame you for their misfortune because they were the one can came to you.

I also have same reasoning too because Bayern Munich is not that backwards in performance what they are experiencing is just a drop in form as compared to how they used to be before in previous seasons so they still have that quality and professional players just like the ones you mentioned like this are basically goal scorers that can shock everyone at any time at all so they should never be underrated. Remember Bayern Munich have been a major competitor in the champions league for so many seasons now so they also deserves some respect even if they are not in their very best now.

I predicted Inter Milan to win the league long time ago when they were winning matches back to back with big goals difference and I analyzed their energy with that of their competitors then I noticed that Inter Milan is more determined for the league title because they hardly lost matches and now it is obvious that they are the serie A champions now. Now they are playing Torino at Inter Milan's home ground so if they succeed to win or draw against Torino that means they have won the league title and it's just remaining 4 matches before the end of the season such that even if they draw or win they will be declared champions of Serial A.

Juventus played better in their match with AC Milan yesterday but the match was just a goalless draw as the both sides where not able to score any goals though AC Milan still maintain the second position as they are 5 points above Juventus.

You know we all are giving predictions in favour of Bayern Leverkusen but no one is thinking about the capacity of Roma to beat Bayern Leverkusen, let us not forget so soon what happened to Liverpool can happen to Bayern Leverkusen even though they are still unbeaten. Since Danielle De Rossi became Roma's manager, he has proved his capacity to lead the team to a certain level and I don't think there is any criticism about his coaching styles and if care is not taken he will want to surprise everyone in the match with Bayern Leverkusen and in recent seasons Roma have been performing better so let us not just focus all our interests on Bayern Leverkusen alone. May be Roma's coach may also want to begin his coaching career with Roma by winning the Europa league competition but it's obvious everyone is just looking from the perspective of Bayern Leverkusen without giving Roma a thought.

That's a good achievement for Leicester city, truly they have the premier league blood running in their veins that is why they were able to return back. Nothing  is as painful as coming to the premier league where legends play and players are more visible there and afterwhich you go on relegation, it's just like someone leaving the chair to sit on the floor. Glad they came back again and we hope to see a different display from them this time around, they have learnt their lessons in the hard way and they will do everything necessary to remain in the premier league once again and since they won the premier league in 2015/2016 the memory is still fresh to them even though it's almost close to a decade when they won it.

Southampton might return to the premier league but the play off matches may or may not favour them because there is always a lot of competition in the playoff matches.

Ipswich and Leeds have 90 points each but it looks like Ipswich will have more advantage of being promoted to the premier league because they have 2 matches before the season ends while Leeds have just one match to go.

Just like @ The Cryptovator said, altcoins are often projects that are not reliable and no reputable members of the forum (between hero and legendary) would want to compromise their integrity promoting scams and shilly projects that is why majority of them stays off from altcoins discussions.