LoL
Gib is a good guy, he is a nice maxi
HoDL has risk. Just ask the XRP HoDLers who are back in a bear market again.
Thanks for those kind words.
Well it is true that last time around in 2018 I sold. (I yes I did disclose that here at the time). My rationale was that there was such a parabolic upward trend that when the "pop" occurred, there would be significant downside. So basically all my coins I had bought at around 3500 I sold after 6 months for around 16000 - one of my best ever ROI's. That sale did not change my view on any of the fundamental qualities of Bitcoin (which I had PAINSTAKINGLY explained to Mr Anabolic). But it was an opportunity to take a nice profit and then rebuy. That one move enabled me to significantly increase the number of coins I had on the rebuy...
This time around, I am pretty much determined to HODL long term (as in at least until the next halvening and the year thereafter, 2025ish). So, I didn't sell at 60, or 65K, and I don't think I would have sold at 100K. Now, having said all that, if I saw a similar parabolic move to something like what happened end of 2017 (for example 400K by end of this year), then yes, something like that would tempt me to take some gains. But even then, I would never entirely sell everything, ever.
But still, for me tBTC s is a long term bet on a one way move (with unpredictable volatility in-between). So, whilst I can say with certainty there will be vol along the way, and whilst I am willing to make a very sure bet on a long term upward direction over time, I don't pretend to myself that I am able to predict the direction and timing for short term movements.