- By Alex Mascioli – Six years ago this coming Thursday (December 18th) one of the most famous words in crypto is celebrating a birthday. HODL, which means not to sell your digital-assets, was accidentally created by a BitcoinTalk member GameKyuubi who misspelled ‘HOLD’ when titling a new post in the speculation section of the bitcoin forum – ‘I AM HODLING’. In that post he claimed to have drank some whiskey (whisky) which may have contributed to the birth of the now famous word. You can read the orginal thread from 2013 here.