Traders are also an investors since they invest money to Bitcoin before they trade it.  Remember one cannot trade if they don't put money on the table.  They can also be considered long term holder if they trade for the intention of increasing their holdings by taking advantage of the market volatility.


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You have bitcoin? Then you're a bitcoin investor. You don't have it, then you're not a bitcoin investor. That's simple as that, as long as you have it on your wallet and you have spent money for buying then you are in the category of being a bitcoin investor. There's also this instance that you're still a bitcoin investor but you haven't spent any penny on it. How? When someone gives it to you and you hold now full custody on it then that's still considered that you're a bitcoin investor if you have kept it and have no plans yet of selling it. There's no need to make things very confusing so if it's no longer in your posession and you sent your bitcoin as a payment, you don't have it anymore. Therefore, you're no longer an investor of it but you used to be.

But what about those who own bitcoin for the purpose of paying bills? Are they considered bitcoin investors? Because bitcoin was created by Satoshi as a means of peer-to-peer payment and we ourselves made it an investment by creating volatility. As far as I know, not everyone invests in bitcoin, there are still some who just use it as a currency. So I think owning bitcoins to be called an investor is not entirely correct. Investing is when you have the purpose of making a profit from it.

everyone in this world can just install a bitcoin wallet on google playstore or appstore and there are dozens of choices of bitcoin personal wallets to choose from but investors in general are those who hold the investment assets, someone who doesn't hold bitcoin is not worthy of being called a bitcoin investor.

Yes. We share the same opinion. A bitcoin investor can be an active bitcoin user as well if he constantly buy and hold bitcoin and sell for future profits, or use it as a mode of payment when price increases or whenever it’s applicable to. But if your intention is not actually to make profits but just use it as a sole currency in the future, then you are just one of those who promote the usage of bitcoin as what its originally designed.

As long as that person owns Bitcoin at any amount, he is already an investor. But real investors have a long-term plan and it is different from traders who just buy today and then sell tomorrow. Investors are also good at holding, they have patience, and most of all, they are very certain about their plan unlike those who claim themselves as an investor but later on, when the market is in correction they easily gives up.

I mean, even though a lot has changed about bitcoin and most of us just use bitcoin as an investment, myself included. But even if we use bitcoin as an investment asset, its peer-to-peer currency nature has not disappeared and there are still some people who do not use it for profit purposes. So if someone owns bitcoins, they can't be called an investor, it depends on what they use them for. Bitcoin is truly the only multi-functional asset we have to date.

You're right and I agree. That feat of Bitcoin has never been gone despite that the majority of us sees that it's like an asset that everyone shouldn't spend on.

I guess the term 'to each their own' just have to be applied on this one.

Or sells when he's uncertain and despite losing some value of it, they choose to cut loss. This scenario happens and is for real.

Op, sorry to say this, like I don't really understand your write ups but will only the topic, (who is actually a Bitcoin investor) I can easily relate to it.
Anyways a Bitcoin investor is a person who has already clicked the BUY button and it shows successful, then the investor holds for a longer period of time.

Yes you are correct, people both business people and all the rest, they only uses Bitcoin for investments and not for payments methods, and it sucks, if I have a personal business today I will use Bitcoin sa a payment method, but not now that I am working for someone I can't advise my director to accept Bitcoin for payment because I don't want to be stressed out by activities.
Well since Bitcoin is not permitted in some locality it will be a hard task for business people to use Bitcoin as a payment method in their businesses.

A person who earns money by investing money in Bitcoin for long term or short term, is a Bitcoin investor. Or someone who invests money in bitcoins and earns money by trading is a bitcoin investor. Or those who do instant buy and sell in bitcoin in panic market are a bitcoin investor.