Cryptocurrency slang for holding regardless of short-term price action, originating from a 2013 Bitcointalk forum post where a user misspelled “hold” as “hodl.” Treated as both a strategy and a meme. The implicit thesis is that long-term cryptocurrency adoption produces returns that overwhelm short-term volatility — historically accurate for BTC and ETH, less so for the long tail.
HODL
Cryptocurrency slang for holding regardless of short-term price action, originating from a 2013 Bitcointalk forum post where a user misspelled "hold" as "hodl." Treated as both a strategy and a meme. The implicit thesis is that long-term cryptocurrency adoption produces returns that overwhelm short-term volatility — historically accurate for BTC and ETH, less so for the long tail.
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