It's only profitable and good if they hold their bitcoins rightly. Rightly means safely so that they won't lose their bitcoin by holding.

It's popular to lose bitcoin with trading in spot market or lose it more quickly with trading in margin and futures markets but holding has its risk too. Even before the Coldcard hack, many people lost their bitcoins by did not back up wallet, did not make good backups and lost their backups.

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Yes, even if you focus on the lowest price, you will find evidence in this, and you can also prove it by another strategy to make Bitcoin investment credible, which is the Bitcoin halving cycle. Bitcoin halving takes place every four years and the next year Bitcoin reaches its highest price.
You see, after the halving in 2020, the price of Bitcoin reaches $69k in 2021, and after the halving in 2024, the price of Bitcoin reaches $126k in 2025. So if you invest, of course, holding the investment for a long time is the most important, and Bitcoin holding has the highest probability of being profitable.

Bitcoin is trusted and valuable. But honestly, none definitely safe at all. There must be any risks of it. However, the risks do vary. It depends on each individual, particularly their ability to develop a strategy for holding Bitcoin, including determining how to hold it. Therefore, the level of security in storing Bitcoin must also be considered.

Well, here it is. What's also important is understanding the risks we'll face. This way, we can ensure our risk management is as wise as possible. This way, we won't panic easily in various situations, whether it's a market crash or a market upswing.

Bitcoin is an asset where the more you can hold, the more profit you have. This is not my opinion but the history of Bitcoin proves it. You have already mentioned that in 2021 Bitcoin was at its lowest at $29,000 but if you go 3 years later and calculate the lowest price of Bitcoin at $40,000 in 2024 then of course the difference in the lowest price is $11,000. If you compare the highest price of $69,000 and $126,000 then it is definitely possible to understand that in just a few years Bitcoin reached almost double the highest price. So Bitcoin should be held as long as Bitcoin is safe in my wallet. If you are insecure and if you are at risk with your Bitcoin wallet then you can take the decision to sell but if you are safe then you should hold Bitcoin till your Bitcoin gives you 4x profit.

Tell that to the Coldcard owners.

Oh, yes. Stimulus is always good. In light of recent events, the entire BTC-community has received such good stimulus for thought that it will reverberate for a long time.

This is a "drawn" (unrealized) profit. If your crypto assets are stolen during the hold period (as with Coldcard), your profit from investing in bitcoin will be exactly zero (- the actual amount of the initial investment).

As somebody who started buying in 20-4, I fully agree that buying and holding for long enough will definitely be good for you.

People who bought at some points in 2021 are only at break even though so you do have to be patient and time sales well. It seems that Bitcoin doesn’t give the returns it used to, when some of us got in.

If I was advising a noob now, I would tell them to buy regularly for 10+ years. Bitcoin is a get rich slow investment.

I was doing this match is my head right now cause I didn't think there was really a zero percent chance of loss after 4+ years, the chance is very low cause we will have to be comparing the peak of one cycle with the bottom of another.

Bitcoin investments has changes as you said. We are past the "when lambo" era and it's more of a slow, secured hedge which promises some profits over time. At the early stages, over the span of 10 years we'll be looking at an ROI of over 1000×, but now a 10× in 10 years to get us over a million dollars even seems put of reach.

Many new bitcoin holders may have the interest to hold their bitcoins for the longest, but there are challenges that they never expect that comes up that spoils their investment plan. Major reason why these challenges tend to stop them from holding for the longest of time is because they never expect it or even when they expect these challenges they never plan for it. It is advisable that as you invest in Bitcoin you also keep aside some percentage of your income for emergencies so that emergency situations do not force you into tampering with your investment in Bitcoin and you changing your mind from wanting to hold Bitcoin for the longest to you liquidating what you have to solve the emergency. planning for emergency will help you achieve the goal of wanting to hold bitcoin for as long as possible.

I wish I was as enlightened as you were about Bitcoin during the early days, I'm just in my imagination of how much stash you have in your portfolio. It's a good thing to see that some of the OG's who bought bitcoin at the early stages are still here with us.

It is true that bitcoins doesn't give enough returns anymore especially for those who just started accumulating because the price of one bitcoin now is almost unaffordable unlike when most of you bought enough of it with just few dollars. I don't agree that those who bought bitcoin in 2021 are at a break because the lowest price of bitcoin in 2021 was about $29k while the peak was $68k so I doubt if there are really many people who invested in 2021 and are only targeting on taking profits now. In fact, someone who started investing in 2021 could still be in their accumulation stages.

Getting rich slow in bitcoin requires consistency and building a huge portfolio because some persons can be investing for 10 years and not have a huge amount of bitcoins which is to say that they won't even see the ''get rich slow''. Though it depends on the price of bitcoin in the next 10 years that will determine if actually a 10-year investor will get rich slowly.