"The days with the biggest market losses, along with the days with the biggest market gains are associated with a higher # of HODL comments."<p>It's quite interesting that everyone is working together to maintain keeping the perception of the higher value.<p>It's clearly a tactic to make the crypto-assets seem less volatile, and therefore to make new people feel more comfortable putting funds in - and also maintaining the illusion for those that are "hodling."<p>It seems the strategy's been working for them, and I'm sure they're hopeful they can continue this until too much of society feels vested into the success of these incentivized crypto-assets to let them fail, leading to the late adopters' wealth being redistributed weighted towards the earliest adopters; wealth redistributed for doing no work, except for giving money to the person before them in the pyramid - in exchange for a digital asset.<p>Edit: To add, they all know that if the price starts to drop or plummet, to HODL - to not sell - until the price stabilizes and starts going up again. There have been times when people would dump a lot of Bitcoin or Ethereum, and the price would drop because not enough money was flowing in. I imagine now, the bigger asset holders of these incentivized crypto-assets, now keep a reserve -- probably platforms like Coinbase are incentivized to do this as well -- to counteract large dumps like this, or they simply shutdown trading, like it has looked like they've done in the past when there was a strong downtrend; I imagine they line up bigger investors interested in buying large amounts of Bitcoin et al, with people/friends looking to offload large amounts -- so they only sell once a buyer is already aligned, preventing/limiting these volatile drops. Coinbase further trying to prop up the ecosystem by creating/supporting tools and functionality that ties into getting people to adopt/pay into these Pyramid-Ponzi schemes like with attempting to purchase Earn.com.<p>Everyone's getting good at rallying the marketers and people incentivized for these Pyramid-Ponzi schemes to succeed.