You already made a profit once your bitcoin appreciates in value, regardless if you sell or you don't. Similar to stock traders and shareholders, they make a profit whenever their stocks rise in value, even if they just keep it as it is and continue doing on other things.

Aa for my price, it depends on whether I need the money or not. I do have a stable paying job, a nice career ahead of me, and I think a few more years along the way I wouldn't have much problems financially. Perhaps I'd be able to use it for my heirs even though I don't have any plans of having a family--just to my nieces and nephews.

It's common sense if you will hold forever even though you have already seen your profit, don't tell me you're still holding even you know that your profit was, what else? Hoping that it will fold so many times before having a plan to exit the market. Just analyze when is the exit and buying point, so that you will exactly know of getting profit.

Actually, if you hold 1 bitcoin it will never be changed, it will the same amount but if you will look at the value will I guess you will able to consider it as one of your asset. Just sell it if you have profit and hold while you've lost.

That's right, without selling our Bitcoin, I don't think it's making money. Therefore, all of us investing in Bitcoin must have a sell target that we want
to achieve, so I'm sure no one wants to HODL forever. One day for sure the Bitcoin that we have will be sold, but everyone has a different sell target.
I will sell my Bitcoin when it hits the $ 50k price tag, because that's the target I want to sell.

Like to say 1BTC is equal to 1BTC but if we are converted to fiat money, it gradually change. Buying at a low price and sell it at high, that is commonly we do to make money from Bitcoin. We are not here for a lifetime and we can't hold Bitcoin forever, we are here for a reason and that is to make money.

I am to wonder if someone says he makes money without selling his Bitcoin. Because in business, we can't make money if nobody buys your product, if you have nothing to sell, you can make money. The same thing works in crypto.

Basically it's the same as holding shares or commodities. Paper loss = Unrealized gains/ losses.

Not everyone that owned crypto in the early days could predict the future of 5 figures, maybe even Satoshi himself

By money, you must be referring to the fiat cash, so that means you are going to convert your Bitcoin into maybe USA Dollar, just an example. Of course, we can argue that Bitcoin is actually functioning like money too, so there is no need to cash it out for one to say he made money with Bitcoin. Now, this all depends on how one is viewing things. We can therefore say that if Bitcoin's value is rising against the parameter which is the dollar, you are actually making money, but it exists on paper, or maybe we can say on a digital form. I think this is the common viewpoint of many people involved with cryptocurrency here in my country and this is how many countries are viewing also especially in connection with taxes.

I hate to disagree but there are people who makes money without selling their coins, some of them have threads that are documenting the profit that they get, I can't remember the users but I think it was posted around the gambling board or the gambling discussion, I can't be certain. I wanted to look for their post but my fever seems to make me a lazy bastard and just sleep. Any sensible person will have to sell their bitcoin someday, there will be those that are loyal because they believe that bitcoin will someday replace the banking institutions as the prophecy says, you wouldn't know what price you are going to sell it but your gut will tell you what needs to done.

If you are a believer in Bitcoin potential then the best time to sell is when the production will stop. You might know that the production of Bitcoin will end sometime in the future as there can be only 21M Bitcoin which is 18.6M are already in the market. Bitcoin is now hitting $50K soon which is a great investment opportunity for sure than before. Buy and hold as long as you can! That’s the way to go.

Being rich can be a state of mind and that type of thing depends on the user. HODLing is good for some users because they can make money since they are able to budget their Cryptocurrencies into different types of investments. You could still create money without actually selling your coins but the only way to gain profit is by selling them so it really falls on the user if he/she wants to gain profit.