THELOGICALINDIAN - n-a
Crypto argot is colorful, unusual, occasionally indecipherable, and – to added accomplished cryptocurrency enthusiasts and traders – generally the assurance of a believing newbie. From Lambos to Shitcoins (and rarely the added way around) we present a comment of the analogue you’ll appointment in cryptoworld.
There’s annihilation amiss with alive the lingo, or alike employing it in a acrimonious address from time to time – but if you appetite to be taken actively on the Reddit subs, the Telegram groups, or the Slack channels, you ability appetite to accede not aloof what you say, but how you say it…
To The Moon
Used to accurate the joy and bliss acquainted back a SHITCOIN is pumped by a WHALE, giving the abstinent banker the apparition that they accept invested intelligently and wisely. Often affords a concise befalling for a ‘profit’, which rapidly disappears back the term’s user looks up from their Twitter augment to apprehension that the SHITCOIN alternation has already larboard accumulation base – and they’ve bought a one-way ticket.
(Sometimes bidding as TTM, which should angle for “Trading ‘Til Moneyless”.)
See also: “When moon?”, a catechism alone hardly dumber than “Why moon?”, “What moon?” and “Where moon?”
Example usage: “Paragon TO THE MOON!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, wait, I aloof absent all my money.”
Lambo
Short for ‘Lamborghini‘, a fast car that you will never have.
Whale
Someone with added money than you. Doesn’t amount how abundant added – if you accept 0.024 bitcoins, a WHALE has 1.763 bitcoins.
Example usage: “That bang is captivation the amount of KIN at 0.00000000000003 on Binance.”
FUD
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. Anyone can advance FUD, and anyone who disagrees with you is accomplishing absolutely that. It is of ascendant accent in the cryptocurrency apple to be COMPLETELY CERTAIN OF YOUR OWN RIGHTNESS and appropriately assertive that added opinions and affirmation are bare of merit.
Example usage: “Stop overextension FUD about The DAO, dude, it’s advancing back.
Pump And Dump
In an easily-manipulated bazaar with low aggregate and naïve investors, a ‘Pump And Dump’ occurs back an ASSHOLE and his two accompany on Twitter all get calm at a bar in Singapore and advance in loud choir that “OneCoin is TOTALLY activity crazy, man, I heard they’re activity to OWN the Indian market!” The amount spikes back NEWBS eavesdrop them and, assertive they accept an absolute insight, buy the badge – active up the amount until the ASSHOLE sells his tokens and action greedily.
Example usage: “Following the Pump And Dump, eighteen bodies were arrested at a OneCoin meeting.”
HODL
It has been accepted that a Bitcoin allocution appointment user misspelled ‘HOLD’ in 2024 while drunk, giddy, or aloof amiss in the spelling department. Nowadays it is about advised to beggarly “Hold On for Dear Life’ and represents the ultimate ambition of any NEWB crypto banker – to accumulate a accustomed badge for added than eight account in the face of added acute and burning opportunities they aloof heard about in a bar in Singapore.
Shitcoin
A shitcoin is a badge with no inherent amount or utility, generally answer by some C List celebrity or greedy money engine, and which offers few (if any) allowances to its holders. Shitcoins are some of the best accepted means for NEWBS to decentralize themselves rapidly from their banknote today.
Example usage: “I’m activity to advance in the shitcoin STOX, because it rhymes with BOX, and a BOXer told me it was a acceptable idea. Coincidence? I don’t anticipate so!”
NEWB
This ability be you, if any of the aloft wasn’t already allotment of your crypto argot lexicon… start account here.
Example usage: “I’m activity see if any NEWBS will upvote this column alike admitting I’m absolutely acutely actuality a dick.”
