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There stored it because this is their belief into bitcoin, where someday it can give them a big savings in the near future on which once the price value meet the highest or peak value they can sell their holdings to get their rewards of waiting for That's on this long term basis it needs patience actually.
Yes you are right, keeping bitcoins in your wallet for a long time can bring profit. This is an investment in the future. I also have a few coins that I do not plan to spend in the near future
Unless bitcoins become worthless or there is a hard fork and people move to the fork or if bitcoins become hackable, then in the future bitcoins will for sure be useless and people will move to better things. Well that will seems to be in the far future. So there would be plenty of time to invest, save and hold you bitcoins and be profitable in the next five to ten years.