I know we have determined newbies among us this days that have developed a strong holding (HODL) habit in themselves, I have an advice for you as a crypto holder and I hope you listen.
Do not hold your tokens for too long without looking back, I have lost some this way because later they move to main chain running on separate blockchain, imagine if you decide to check the progress of that project only in 2024 and you see that you've missed out on swapping your old tokens to the new coin..
You are right, this is why we need to stay active in the community. HODL doesn't mean we shouldn't check on the activity of the project.
If the project requires swapping of tokens then it will definitely be a loss for us if we don't do it within the specified time.
I have faced a similar thing when I had to swap the LEND tokens into AAVE. I had done the swapping almost after a year it was first announced.
I was fortunate enough to receive the AAVE tokens but the cost of swapping was relatively high when compared to when it was first announced.
Similarly, I had some Eidoo tokens as well which I was HODLing for some years but the price of it kept on going low year after year.
So holding for a very long time is also not good sometimes (Not applicable to bitcoin
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