HODL originally came from a drunken typo in the subject line of a Bitcoin forum post: “I AM HODLING”. (It should have read “holding.”) HODL, usually pronounced “hoddle,” simply means to buy and hold for the long term no matter what the market is doing. Some also claim it is an acronym that stands for “hold on for dear life.” One of ten still images from the limited collection Crypto Slang. Hand rendered 1080 x 1080 px .png