Crypto memes can look like a private language. Below are eight crypto jokes as picture cards you can save and share, and a short translation of the words behind them.
Eight crypto jokes to share
The words behind the memes
HODL. A misspelling of “hold” that stuck. It now reads as “hold on for dear life” and means: do not sell when the price drops. (Hence “Hodlers Anonymous” above.)
FOMO. Fear of missing out: the feeling that everyone else is getting rich and you are not. It is behind many bad decisions in crypto and everywhere else.
Bear market. A long period of falling prices. The opposite is a bull market.
To the moon. The price is going up, fast. The joke is the confidence, the risk is that it comes back down.
Diamond hands. Someone who does not sell under pressure. “Paper hands” sells at the first scare.
YOLO. “You only live once”: spending on a whim. (The tombstone card is a pun on “crypt”.)
Rug pull. A project whose creators take the money and disappear. Not a joke, but the reason for many of them.
If the jargon puts you off
The two free mini books on this site explain the ideas without the slang: Crypto Revolution: The Free Lunch Effect and Baby Steps to Bitcoin.
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