Who has held bitcoin for more than 5 years?

[mk4]

While it's impossible to find out how many people who did that, you can get rough estimation how many bitcoin was held for at least 5 years by open blockchain explorer (such as Blockchair) and filter for any UTXO with age older than 5 years.

True. Though the rough estimation would probably a little bit too "rough" and inaccurate for us to end up with data that's decently meaningful. It's pretty could potentially be as inaccurate as saying that funds from a certain wallet address is "lost" just because the funds didn't move for years.

[Lucius]

As for the members of the forum, there are not too many who have been active for more than 5 years, but as can be seen from some answers, some have kept part of their coins for more than 5 years. Yet here we are talking about a period when Bitcoin was still quite cheap compared to today (the price was measured in a few hundred $), and few believed that a value like today is possible.

I personally have some coins that I earned as a beginner through faucets or through signature campaigns, but unfortunately I did not keep everything I bought during 2014 and 2015 - I consider it a good lesson for the future. I also hope that the time will come when it will not be necessary to convert BTC into fiat in order to spend it in the usual places such as shopping malls, cafes, restaurants.

[SLS163]

As for the members of the forum, there are not too many who have been active for more than 5 years, but as can be seen from some answers, some have kept part of their coins for more than 5 years. Yet here we are talking about a period when Bitcoin was still quite cheap compared to today (the price was measured in a few hundred $), and few believed that a value like today is possible.

I personally have some coins that I earned as a beginner through faucets or through signature campaigns, but unfortunately I did not keep everything I bought during 2014 and 2015 - I consider it a good lesson for the future. I also hope that the time will come when it will not be necessary to convert BTC into fiat in order to spend it in the usual places such as shopping malls, cafes, restaurants.

Thanks for your reply and everyone for their inputs.

Unfortunately, to a certain extend I believe BTC is being manipulated at every bull and bear cycles. Like you mentioned, not many active members with more than 5 years on the forum. Thats just showing most bought BTC at some stage(joined the forum) and likely sold out when it went down and never returned. Those who sold when it was high, probably would still stick around the forum since the likelihood of them getting back in at the low kept them on interested and stuck around on the forum.

Anyway, the ones that has held on more than 5 years, or even 3 years are true believers. Hats off to you guys, shows character more than financial gains. Well Done.

[Casdinyard]

Hey Guys,
Just curious to see who has held bitcoin on this forum for more than 5 years?
And also, if you've sold it, when did you got in and when did you sold out?

Cheers!

I first purchased BTC in 2012. The during 2012-2013, I received a lot of BTC from various faucets and other give-away sites such as Rugatu, Bittrivia and Bitcointalk signature campaigns. Unfortunately, in 2013 I lost around 60% of my coins when LitecoinGlobal closed down. And again, in 2015 I was facing some financial hardship and I had to sell around 75% of my remaining BTC for $200 per coin.

Then from 2016 to current date, I continue to sell some of my remaining coins.

Now I have around 10% of the coins that I held in 2013.

Misconceptions I think many people are having is that holding is the only thing to do once you've invested into something. But that's absolutely wrong. The market price is not continuously and consistently increasing over time. Market analysis is needed in order for an investor or user to make decisions whether to invest or sell at a certain point because that would generate income not holding alone. Profit from holding for years won't be as big as profit from selling at certain price points, "bullish market" times to be specific. The will be losses to some cryptos because not all cryptos are having price increase especially the small ones in this industry.

[Question123]

There is a lot of people here in the forum who held bitcoin more than 5 years and most of them for sure already sold it and they got a lot of profit. Maybe the bitcoin they have got from the trading, investing and the others campaign  but it is not important where they did get bitcoin as long as you get your bitcoin in a good way not like the others they have bitcoin because they scamming people which is really bad.

[jademaxsuy]

Five years ago bitcoin was only 500$ and those who held bitcoin that time until now probably had big profits if they want or try to sell their holdings. Anyway, for the newcomers still holding bitcoin is  possible to get big profits in the next 5 years. For we know that bitcoin has slowly been adapted by the community believing its worth and even trusted that bitcoin independency cannot be ruled by any third party services except in the use of centralized exchange. Well, we will be hoping for those DEX  to also get a good chance in balancing the centralized exchanges.

[minhkhoa]

I don't understand what your topic means? Very few people will be able to hold Bitcoin for more than 5 years because if Bitcoin increases, people will sell it to make a profit instead of holding it for so long.

[Karartma1]

Hey Guys,
Just curious to see who has held bitcoin on this forum for more than 5 years?
And also, if you've sold it, when did you got in and when did you sold out?

Cheers!

I still have a full coin from 2015 (that makes it five years!) I remember betting with a friend about that! I should have bought and held 10 full coins not only one from 2015! I was already very skilled in terms of how to use btc but I didn't go the extra mile. Still, I feel good today knowing I was able to extend and preserve my wealth and hopefully that of my kids.

[sheenshane]

I've been into the Bitcoin world since 2017 just 3 years and didn't meet your qualification of 5 years.  However, during those years a lot of things happened the ups and downs of Bitcoin and to my personal necessities as well which required me to sell most of the Bitcoins that I have gained.

I have bought Bitcoin once too for I know that how Bitcoin can help me when I'm in need, due to these reasons I would say that I buy and sell Bitcoin not at the appropriate time because of its price instead I did and will still continue to do it when I needed most.

Very few people will be able to hold Bitcoin for more than 5 years because if Bitcoin increases, people will sell it to make a profit instead of holding it for so long.

I'm a part of it.

[CODE200]

Hey Guys,
Just curious to see who has held bitcoin on this forum for more than 5 years?
And also, if you've sold it, when did you got in and when did you sold out?

Cheers!

I still have a full coin from 2015 (that makes it five years!) I remember betting with a friend about that! I should have bought and held 10 full coins not only one from 2015! I was already very skilled in terms of how to use btc but I didn't go the extra mile. Still, I feel good today knowing I was able to extend and preserve my wealth and hopefully that of my kids.

But there's no assurance that the market price will continue increasing in the future, so doing so won't benefit you, just my two cents.
But that depends on your goal as an investor. If you are just aiming to experience having an amount of it, then holding for a longer period of time would be fine. But if you are into profit, I won't suggest holding for that long, because there's still a possibility for its market value to depreciate. Thus, it would be better to analyze the market, perhaps in this case.

[hatshepsut93]

You can safely assume that on this forum account's age is roughly equal to the time of hodling Bitcoin, providing that an account is still active. Think about it, if someone registered on Bitcoin forum, that's because they are interested in Bitcoin, and if you are interested in Bitcoin, you have to own it, there's no other way to interact with it. And if someone is active to this day, that's because they still own Bitcoin, because why else would they be on this forum?

Of course there can always be exceptions, most notably people who only own altcoins, but still it's a good approximation. So, if you're looking for big data, search for this forum's account age stats.

[carlfebz2]

Hey Guys,
Just curious to see who has held bitcoin on this forum for more than 5 years?
And also, if you've sold it, when did you got in and when did you sold out?

Cheers!

You wont really be getting solid feedbacks or information on what you do seek for because you do talk about those people who had been holding since 2015.

We cant be sure if the people who had responded into this thread are valid or solid holders or just trying to pretend that they had held but actually they had already sell off.

Why it is important for you to know? When it comes to holding then this do involved lots of patience basing of on all the volatility that we have seen
into this market then fighting that kind of emotion wont really be that simple.

[franky1]

And if someone is active to this day, that's because they still own Bitcoin, because why else would they be on this forum?

Of course there can always be exceptions, most notably people who only own altcoins, but still it's a good approximation. So, if you're looking for big data, search for this forum's account age stats.

other exception are those foolish to lock funds into exchanges, custodians, sidechains, LN. they dont realise it yet but 'not my privkey..not my coin' applies to them

[lepbagong]

Hey Guys,
Just curious to see who has held bitcoin on this forum for more than 5 years?
And also, if you've sold it, when did you got in and when did you sold out?

Cheers!

firmly believe that no one has held bitcoin for that long even though we know that bitcoin is a long-term investment. because bitcoin changes occur every 4 years and at that time everyone is competing to sell because the price is usually high.
it is clear from the many that there are still saving but not because they want to invest but because of negligence so that they miss high prices.

[Innerpumper]

Hey Guys,
Just curious to see who has held bitcoin on this forum for more than 5 years?
And also, if you've sold it, when did you got in and when did you sold out?

Cheers!

I think they are the beginning of the start of bitcoin, currently the price of bitcoin is very low even considered junk, maybe they are the one who lasted for 5 years holding btc. at that time, bitcoin was so easy to obtain, even the faucet alone reached .1 BTC. per his claim. I think those who are in  bitcointalk forum this is a community of campaigns as well as developers of very difficult projects for those who withhold bitcoin from 5 years in the past.

[bryant.coleman]

Misconceptions I think many people are having is that holding is the only thing to do once you've invested into something. But that's absolutely wrong. The market price is not continuously and consistently increasing over time. Market analysis is needed in order for an investor or user to make decisions whether to invest or sell at a certain point because that would generate income not holding alone. Profit from holding for years won't be as big as profit from selling at certain price points, "bullish market" times to be specific. The will be losses to some cryptos because not all cryptos are having price increase especially the small ones in this industry.

May be that is true. But I am someone who regret the fact that I sold most of my coins when the prices were low. In theory, it is always profitable to sell at spikes and buy at dips. But in reality this is never practical, as we never know what will be the peak price and when the coin will bottom out. Anyway, I have learnt my lesson and I am keeping most of my remaining coins for the long term.

[maydna]

People who held bitcoin will sell their bitcoin, especially if they really need money for their needs. If the price was low, and we are in urgent thing, we will sell it right away, but we will repurchase it after we have another money and see the price is at a low price. We will try to buy more bitcoin or earn more bitcoin in many ways.

I feel it is better to make more bitcoin, but we can also sell some bitcoin to fill our needs to help us make money in the future. Don't forget that not many people will invest their money in bitcoin while they will sell their bitcoin if they need money.

[blckhawk]

Hey Guys,
Just curious to see who has held bitcoin on this forum for more than 5 years?
And also, if you've sold it, when did you got in and when did you sold out?

Cheers!

My first engagement with Bitcoin is way back in 2016 where the price is only about $600-$700 and unfortunately, I wasn't able to hold for a long time due to the reason of no one exactly knows that Bitcoin will grow this much and also because I have financial crisis back then so I had no choice. Only if I have known that Bitcoin will be this much, perhaps I just hold it in my wallet and I am pretty sure that most of us are thinking the same way. However, it's never been too late you and I can now accumulate Bitcoin and Hold as much as you can, at least we are now certain that Bitcoin has the potential to grow even more as mass adoption occur.

[BTCappu]

I held Bitcoin since 2015 and around 2017 I sold almost all of them and left just a few, something less than 10% of what I had. I left it there till the price went down and I came back and invested again on top that small amount when price was low.

So, I guess that qualifies for the five years? I didn’t want to take so much risk when I saw that the price has been going up too much and I felt a lot of people are going to sell their coins, so I decided to sell a huge percentage of what’s in my bag. I even twice; in 2018 around $8,000 price per unit, and then this 2020 around $6,000 price per unit, I guess I got in a bit late, but I’ve been able to cover up. People tried to put fear in me when they were saying price won’t go further and that it will drop to $1,500.

[batang_bitcoin]

Because I feel most people has sold out.

Well, you are right. Maybe from the 100% people who have bought 5 years ago. Around 95% has sold maybe 50%-90% of their holdings. Except the Winklevoss twins and other known strategies and bitcoin investors, they've held a lot and also took some solid profits during the heights.
I've sold some just a few months ago and would continually do it but wouldn't put on my sale more than 10% of my asset.