Cryptocurrency Slang Gone Wrong
In this current gloomy market, just for a bit of fun, I've put together a list of alternative cryptocurrency slang definitions. I'd love to hear your suggested edits or additions. There's a link at the end of this article. Looking forward to hearing from you.
- ATH - All Time Hopes. Usually muttered along with the rose-tinted words "When my bag was at its ATH, I had my eye firmly attached to a yellow Lambo".
- Bags - A large holding of shitcoins that are worth much less than what you paid for them.
- Bagholder - Someone who holds bags and is unjustifiably proud of their stash.
- BHSL - What a noob does ie Buys Hope, Sells Losses.
- Block - What you do to people that send you links to binary option scams.
- BTFD - Buy The Fucking Dip, you dipshit.
- Cryptonitis - Despite being exhausted, you still cannot sleep.
- DR;TL - definition needed.
- DYOR - definition needed.
- FA - Flawed Analysis. Usually involves nothing more than reading a shill's comment on social media.
- Fake News - Donald Trump promising to make cryptocurrency slang great again.
- FIAT - Government backed currencies that are just as reliable as that Italian Government backed motorcar; the Fiat.
- Flippening - A curse. Said by polite cryptocurrency speculators when their favourite coin is tanking. For example, 'Good golly gosh, my flippening Bitcoin is tanking'.
- FOMO - Forgetting One's Modus Operandi.
- FUD - Jumping to a Foolishly Unlikely Decision when reading Fake News.
- FUDster - A Frighteningly Uneducated Dickhead that spreads unsubstantiated Fake News.
- HODL - Hold On to Dreadful Losses.
- ICO - That moment in time when a new cryptocurrency hits its all time high, which it will never attain again.
- Lambo - Expensive car that HODL'er's expect to buy with their bags, the annual insurance of which costs more than a sensible sedan.
- Maximalist - A wanker that cannot see beyond their favourite cryptocurrency. Also see Shill.
- Moon - An imaginary height that your favourite coin's price will never reach.
- Noob - Someone newly introduced to cryptocurrencies. Often recognisable by them having the over-exuberance of an untrained puppy.
- OG or Bitcoin Original Gangsta - someone that has been involved with cryptocurrencies long enough to have known Satoshi Nakamoto.
- P&D - definition needed.
- Ponzi - Yeh, mate. Just head across to the Donations page and send all your Bitcoins to the address listed there. Once you've done that, trust me, then you'll understand.
- R&R - Rinse & Repeat. What you have to do with your underwear after you check CMC or Blockfolio every morning.
- Rekt - Made an unplanned loss.
- ROI - Removal Of Intellect when trying to understand the mistakes that you made.
- Scam - See Ponzi and follow the instructions to the last letter.
- Shill - Someone with an over-optimistic view on the value of their favourite shitcoin. Also see Maximalist.
- Shitcoin - A coin that is probably worth less than the pixels it takes to render it on screen.
- Stash - definition needed.
- TA - Terrible Analysis. Usually no more than one line drawn on a chart by someone who thinks they've finally nailed technical analysis.
- Tanking - definition needed.
- Whale - Someone that should be mercilessly harpooned by a Japanese whaling ship.
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