If everyone keep their Bitcoin and no one sell, the system would fall apart on its own or worse: freeze in time. People love to talk about Bitcoin as currency, yet socially punish anyone who uses it. Bitcoin was born as a tool for decentralization, but it became a symbol of financial identity. People who say "you shouldn't have sold," are projecting psychological regret, loss aversion, and status anxiety. Being seen as someone who "HODL" is now more important than using Bitcoin to purchase pizza
If no one sells:
There is no liquidity
No price discovery
No functioning market
It's merely a piece from a museum with numbers on it. Holding everything forever is a fantasy economics can't support. Still, you are right to sense a loss in something. Store-of- value maximalism has taken over what was intended to empower regular transactions. We silently changed the narrative somewhere in the transition from p2p currency to "digital gold"
Those that sell their Bitcoin are not traitors then. They’re participants. Every transaction pushes the network ahead. And sometimes growth means spending