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  **HODL** is crypto-community slang meaning to keep holding an asset rather
  than selling it, especially through market volatility. It originated as a typo
  of “hold” in a bitcoin forum post and is popularly backronymed as “hold on for
  dear life.”
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# HODL

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## Definition

**HODL** is crypto-community slang meaning to keep holding an asset rather than selling it, especially through market volatility. It originated as a typo of “hold” in a bitcoin forum post and is popularly backronymed as “hold on for dear life.”

In the captured material, **HODL** belongs to the vocabulary of crypto culture rather than to the core argument of the episode. It surfaces in the world of terminology that Packy McCormick and Dan Shipper move through while discussing crypto topics like *tokenomics* — a domain dense with slang, abbreviations, and community in-jokes that a writer summarizing the space has to navigate.Explore HODL as a community term: it expresses the decision to **keep holding** a crypto asset rather than selling it, typically through volatility and drawdowns. The word originated as a typo of “hold” in a bitcoin forum post and was later popularly backronymed as **“hold on for dear life,”** which is how it is usually glossed today.For the writers in this channel's material, terms like HODL are a reminder of what summarizing crypto well requires: you must understand not just the mechanics (tokens, staking, tokenomics) but the *culture's own language* — and be able to explain that language to readers who have never encountered it, without adopting its hype uncritically.\\**HODL** = holding a crypto asset rather than selling, especially through volatility.\\It began as a **typo of “hold”** and is commonly backronymed as “hold on for dear life.”\\In the episode's context, it belongs to the crypto-culture vocabulary a writer must navigate when summarizing topics like tokenomics.\\