[PragmaticPulp]

> From looking around the internet I am starting to believe I might be the only person holding crypto strictly because I just happen to think it's neat.

I also think a lot of the distributed systems work and technological achievements are neat.

But I don't have to hold crypto to appreciate it, or even to use it. It's trivially easy to log in to an exchange and buy crypto whenever I might need it to do something.

The concept of holding (or HODLing) isn't related to the underlying technology. It's a speculative investment.

I also hold a token amount of crypto from back when I was playing around with the neatness of it, but it's just that: A token amount. You don't need to invest in it or make the number in your wallet go to an arbitrarily high number to experiment with the technology.