People who brought Bitcoin at $50 or $100 or $400, they will sell at $1,000 or $5,000 or $10,000 to be a millionaire. If they do not sell Bitcoin and bitcoin goes back to $2,000 ot $1,000, they will lose their millions ($$$$$)
Long term holders (especially the early birds) hold Bitcoin for the following reasons;
- to store wealth outside the banking system.
- have no faith in fiat.
- have no faith in the government and their shitty system.
- want to own their wealth instead of relying on central parties to do the job for them.
- believe that Bitcoin will become a mainstream payment tool.
- believe that we haven't even seen a glimse of Bitcoin's real potential, and thus there is no reason to sell now.
All the newer holders aren't real holders but just fiat obsessed investors not knowing anything other than fiat being 'the real deal'.
1BTC whether it tanks back to $1000 or moons at $1,000,000 tomorrow, is still 1BTC. In reality everything else that we use to measure Bitcoin's value is losing against Bitcoin consistently, which says enough.