No matter how long you decide to hold, you can't take all the profit that Bitcoin will give; you take what you can. If you are to continue with the mentality of we don't know what the future holds for Bitcoin, some people stack up and will never have to move from their wallet.

It's okay to hold for long, but we should always know when to take profit. We don't only receive a salary because we have problems to solve; there are always bills to pay and lives to elevate, and one should not feel sorry because they sell too early.

I've been in the Bitcoin scene since 2014, but I only recently started accumulating and holding Bitcoin. It's approximately four years since I started, so I'm here before the bear market in 2022 the OP mentioned. However, I don't understand where exactly you're heading. You're mentioning incidents and people who might alter Bitcoin's course.

I personally don't need the money, thus, I'm not planning to sell anytime soon, however, 2025 is supposed to be a bull period,  which means that whatever happens should be until the end of the year. Certainly, as you've also mentioned, the 4 year cycles aren't necessarily a rule, but where exactly are you aiming at?

If someone is in profit and they want to sell, they're free to do that. No one can stop them from doing so.

Do not sell all that you hold and I think most of the holders are in this situation. They're thinking of selling a part of their holdings and they have also a plan to accumulate them back.

It's okay to do if that's what is on their heads. Everyone has waited on this patiently but the longer the better on this market and thus, there's no exit if you understand and sees where this is heading.

If i haven't learnt much over the few years I have invested the little I have in Bitcoin, one thing I have learnt is that it is more profitable to keep on holding. Inflation increase massively every year, the best option to go against inflation is if you keep the value of what you own in an asset that is highly profitable in long term. We should take some profit when we have something bigger to do with it. Anything other than that can be spent from our monthly income.
To avoid regrets is to keep holding, while we rely on other means for survival.

At some points I won't agree with OP. Definitely we have to hold Bitcoin, but with a goal. Lately everything is positive about Bitcoin, but unless you have a goal, you can't make more money. We know Bitcoin will even reach $1M, but we don't know when it will happen. Till then, will we live or not? We don't know. That's why we should have a goal where we need to liquidate our holdings.

We have to hold for life, but not for a lifetime. We are earning to lead a better life, so Bitcoin could help us. Let's say you sold your Bitcoin ATH then it dropped to below $80K. So you may accumulate more Bitcoin with your sold funds. That's why we have to set a goal for selling points. It's not a risk, but it's necessary.

I think you're eight, I mean the price just keeps going up and up every year and it's going to break the half million barrier and then the million then it'll go into the tens. Let's go! I want to retire but I'd literally need BTC to go to max value lmao

Let’s simply put, if governments of natures have turned into hodlers,

Why shouldn’t you?

You shouldn’t be the one to stop you from holding, something more than you, maybe your inability to get funds with which you can buy Bitcoin with and hold for a long time could be the obstacle but, it shouldn’t be one that you can’t cross. All huddles must be jumped!

Life of hodlers is not easy especially newbie hodlers who don't have enough knowledge, experience and capital management in this market. Firstly, newbies often join the market in bull run and if they use all capital for investment, don't have reserved money for use in bear market, and unfortunately their income resource gets broken, they will struggle to hold their bitcoin and perhaps in bear market, they will have to sell their bitcoin for loss as they entered the market in bull run.

If you are experienced, you can do this because bear market lasts long enough like 2 years for you to rebuy bitcoin. The challenge is you can not know what is ATH of a bull run and perhaps you likely sell at prices in mid of a bull run and when you buy back, you can buy at nearly same price of your exit before.

You can apply DCA or Smart DCA, it depends and you can try with both strategies but if you are fearful about doing smart DCA wrongly, you can simply apply DCA (classic DCA).
DCA vs Smart DCA, what do you choose?

The future of Bitcoin still uncertainty. No one will know what will Bitcoin in the future. But we did a good work by hodling Bitcoin until now and make a big profit if we already sold Bitcoin. But we don't need to sell all of our Bitcoin because we still have a long time journey to follow Bitcoin. We need to hodl Bitcoin for a very long time and still accumulate Bitcoin especially if we want to increase our Bitcoin amount. We don't have panic in any situation because the price will be increase so high. If we can hodl Bitcoin tight for a very long time and keep buying Bitcoin, we may make a big profit in the future.

Dude, who are you to tell the HODLers when to sell and when not to sell? They can decide on their own.
I can't agree that there would never be any panic selling on the Bitcoin market ever again. New retail investors are entering the cryptocurrency markets every day. Most of them are lacking experience and they would totally panic, if something negative happens and FUD starts dominating the markets.
Also the big whales and institutional investors might start selling big amounts of BTC at some point, not because they are panicking, but because they want to sell high and buy low, taking advantage of the retail investors panic selling.