Yes, as you said, the profit that some people want to achieve certainly has various opinions. Maybe he wants to hold Bitcoin for a longer amount until the price reaches hundreds of thousands of dollars so that that way he can get a lot of profit.
Holding bitcoins for a longer time is the best way to earn bigger profits, but it requires a lot of capital. Where money is not needed for a long time. Some people just hold by buying when bearish and selling when bullish, hold for 4 years.
Yeah, from my personal experience as once a day trader, and as well have turned hodler, I would say that, hodling is the best way to make good amount of money in crypto, traders can make money, but a total profit a trader makes in give years, can be made in like 2, 3, 4 years of hodling, if the investor is lucky of course.
In Altcoins, the risk is higher than bitcoin, but the potentials is also very higher than bitcoin as well, as I have seen really lucky guys who buys an altcoin at a time it seems the altcoin is dead, but just within 30 to 60 days, that altcoins pumps so hard turning a hundred or less dollar investment into hundreds of thousands of dollar, and some times, even up to a million dollars.
Money is in crypto, and one can make the quickest of profit, not just with bitcoin but with altcoins as well if they are lucky, all I think it takes is, buy in to bitcoin or the altcoin at the right time before a major pump.