Bitcoin and Ethereum uses different mechanism, while the latter can be staked, the former cannot. From your question the only way you earn while holding and not considering trading is to stake your coins and bitcoin doesn’t supports staking.


While holding bitcoin, I think the easiest way to earn more is just by providing a lending service. With the lending service strictly tied to been payed back on bitcoin worth and not necessarily dollar worth of bitcoin you can earn gradually with the interest rate that comes off it. Imagine having to lend out 0.1btc and the repayment is like 0.12btc this gives an extra earning while you still have your 0.1btc as an holding.

If this doesn’t guarantees the much profits you are yarning for then it is best you pick up trading alternatives or you start mining bitcoin, both are profitable but expensive to startup and also involves risk

Not all investors can hold or hodl. They call themselves as investors but what they do is trading like traders.

Holding means you don't touch it and you only wait to take profit with better price in future.

Making more bitcoin is not holding, you are thinking about getting passive income with your bitcoin, like staking altcoins. It's not holding. If you send your bitcoins to a platform like exchange, that provides  you staking program with a APY for interest from staking, you can get more bitcoins. Think about risk before you do that because "Not your keys, not your bitcoins".

When you send your coins to exchange, join staking program, you don't have its key. The exchange can file bankruptcy, suspend their operations like Hotbit.

Ethereum just recently moved from the proof of work algorithm to proof of staking and that's why you can earn more Ethereum from just holding and staking it. Bitcoin can't be staked and don't send your Bitcoin to any exchange offering staking rewards. Bitcoin is a currency while Ethereum is a platform used for building decentralized application and that's the difference between both projects.

If you want to earn more Bitcoin, increase your income and use the money received to buy more Bitcoin, you can also trade Bitcoin and increase the amount you own but that's very risky. Staking increase the centralization of a project and Bitcoin can't have such traits.

Are you talking about Staking per se with your bitcoin? But I think staking is only applicable to PoS that's why Ethereum move their model into it. But obviously Bitcoin is still PoW and I doubt that we will move into PoS in the near future.

So in any case, yes, the best thing for a Bitcoin investors is HODL.

Risk is that if you don't know how to have a good safety and security practice, there are chance that you might lose it through hacks.
The obvious benefit is that you are going to make profits if you invest on a bear market, accumulate, buy and have the mentality to HODL and then wait for the right time to sell in a bull run.

You know right staking has a term about centralization and there are many cases where the altcoins network or smart contract get hacked? and now you're talking about staking Bitcoin when you were pointed out to not hold crypto on a centralized exchange

Changed hands account? or someone who have many personality

If only you could be more expository on what you mean when you say you put some coins to work.

I believe one of the benefits of HODLing is that your coins will retain its value owning to the near steady nature of BTC. It is also more secure.


I didn't want to write so much as to explain to clearify what the RSK Bitcoin mean. One fact is that it isn't a cryptocurrency on its own to be used to facilitate payment. It enables smart contract for big transactions and trades. It is still under the BTC Blockchain network. It has cheaper fees and speed of transaction is faster than the regular BTC charge or transaction speed which is about 10mins.


Here is a link to learn more about RSK Bitcoin:

https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-rsk-it-threat-ethereum/

One way to hold and earn is to stake your assets but be mindful if the platform offering staking services, is legitimate. I'd probably stick with DCA and swing trades to earn more. Akthough it has bigger risk but if things would be done using the right technical analysis, things would be somehow fine.There's nothing wrong if an investor would enter the market and will just choose. The conflict arises from our expectancies; if you are looking for bigger profit and in a quicker way, then prepare to take risks. There's no way you'd earn easily in any field of investment so what more in this cryptospace wherein prices are way too volatile.

BTC is a coin that should be in self custody, so staking isn't possible and lending isn't recommended, you are using BTC because you want to be in full custody of it and spend it anytime you want to. The best way to get returns from BTC is by buying low and selling high, it is not something that will happen quickly, but in the long run.
There's no fixed number of years that you can expect to get returns on the BTC's you bought. Buying with dca is by the way helpful, you don't have to spend too much at once and you have a better chance to get returns buying like this.

Well, holding bitcoin in its original and decentralized form may possibly not offer any means through which the holder can earn more bitcoin in the process of holding.
But if the holder so desire to earn more bitcoin in its original form, then the holder can utilize centralized services like earn or lending program to either stake their bitcoin or lend out their bitcoin for interest..
Also to enjoy the benefit of earning bitcoin through decentralized staking, providing liquidity and all that, one would have to buy wrapped bitcoin which operates in alternative blockchains like bsc, Solana, Renec blockchain and so on..

In the end, the final choice is on the holder to make.

That's a really good question and I don't even know other than lending it at an interest rate to CEX, I am not sure if there is any way to make it work for itself.
If we buy a property in NYC and rent it out, that would make money in two ways. But Bitcoin isn't going to do it on its own. I am sure there must be a way to grow more bits from the existing ones.

Ethereum is pretty cool on this thing, until the update as before that you couldn't do it. Now Proof of Stake allows you to do it.