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HODL

Also called: hodling, diamond hands, hold on for dear life

HODL is crypto's term for holding through volatility, originating in a drunken 2013 forum typo for 'hold'. As a strategy it has worked well for Bitcoin across full cycles and disastrously for the many tokens that never recovered. It functions mostly as social reinforcement against panic selling — useful discipline attached to no analysis of what is being held.

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