Also holding since 2016.
The amount was not significant at that time. I thought even if lose this who cares. Money got bigger and bigger. Forks happened and my btc number got bigger too (for free) And now that amount is as big as to make a difference. Not enough to make retire me yet but still i feel good to have it around.
HODLing is maybe not the most profitable option you got but it is the safest indeed. I quit trading after gox thing and almost never ever had btc's on the exchanges since then. That was the main reason I stopped trading and dumped my coins. I started to collect in 2016 again and it paid off.
I now sadly wish that I haven't dumped my other coins for pennies but past is past. We are still in early phase and there isn't enough bitcoins for everybody!
Forks? I don't know - I was told I will get so many forked BTC - got 0 !! - had all my btc on Binance at the time of forks - binance wrote that they will give forked btc - still 0 there.
Last fork - Bitcoin GOD - and where it is? Nowhere
No surprises you are a clueless newbie who think btc will go to zero...
Bitcoin Diamond
Bitcoin Gold
Bcash
Super Bitcoin
Bitcore
Those are the forks I cashed out and increased my btc stash like %20. There are other forks too some of them aint worth jackshit yet so it doesn't make sense to cash out but as soon as they start to become smth i cash out to bitcoin. The only mistake i made was bcash. I could have sold them for a higher price but I don't overthink about it since its a scam project.
Since you hold your bitcoins on an exchange, you'll only have your forks if the exchange gives them to you.
Since I don't hold any on any exchange, I can collect all of them whether they have any value or not. Binance may not give you Bitcoin World coins maybe because they don't think it has a future but I can collect them and sell them at a later date when they're worth smth.
Since you don't bother with studying these stuff, you will always make mistakes with your decisions and stay poor.
Bitcoin is going to "0" LOL FUCK yes that's a real educated guess bruh!