On this day in 2013, a self-admittedly drunk user named GameKyuubi on the BitcoinTalk forum posted "I AM HODLING" -- a whiskey-fueled typo that birthed one of Bitcoin's most enduring memes. With BTC crashing from $1,100 to around $500, GameKyuubi declared he was a bad trader and would simply hold through the chaos. The misspelling "HODL" was immediately adopted by the community and retroactively backronymed as "Hold On for Dear Life." It remains the battle cry of every Bitcoiner who refuses to sell.
Read the original discussion, "I AM HODLING",
here.