One of those successful cases of bitcoin hodling was a friend of a friend. They (a couple) took an important risk by investing 60k of a dismissal compensation into bitcoin and making a x100 on it before selling half. I do not know what they did with the rest. Now, these people were not rich, they took an enormous risk compared to their total wealth. They had to really believe on the project and pass though some of bitcoins usual "tests of faith".
For someone with let´s say, a net worth of 1M USD or more plus house, hodling 60k until they became 6M would have been not that much of an stress. Do you think it was easier to benefit economically from bitcoin if you were already a bit up in the ladder?
It is easier to hold compared to anything, period. I mean trading and what not causes so much commotion but if you are not good at it you are not going to enjoy any profits from it. When you are holding, all you have to do is nothing, just keep on waiting until the price reaches a level you are fine with and that is going to be fine. I personally have done a lot more profit by just buying and holding than any other method and that is going to be basically the case for a long time, it is not going to change for me nor anyone else.
However when you are richer you have the chance to spend 100 million on long term investing while spending a million dollars on smaller cap stuff, can buy 10k dollars worth of small stuff 100 times over, and that is why I believe holding is easier when you are not rich, because you do not have a room to work with hence keep on holding.