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In plain words
The broken grammar began as mockery: skeptics on the SomethingAwful forums parodied how they imagined bitcoiners think, and critic David Gerard spread it on Twitter in December 2017. Bitcoiners adopted it anyway, half joking (“NGU technology”), because the long-term chart kept doing exactly that.
Origin story
The broken grammar began as mockery: skeptics on the SomethingAwful forums parodied how they imagined bitcoiners think, and critic David Gerard spread it on Twitter in December 2017. Bitcoiners adopted it anyway, half joking (“NGU technology”), because the long-term chart kept doing exactly that.
See also
- HODLDuring a crash, a BitcoinTalk user admitted he was a bad trader, a little drunk, and simply holding. He misspelled “holding” in the title.
- Laser eyesAs bitcoin crossed $50,000, a few accounts added red laser beams to their profile pictures with the rule: keep them until $100K. Soon members of Congress, Saylor and much of Bitcoin Twitter joined; El Salvador's president followed.
- Michael SaylorMichael Saylor is the co-founder and executive chairman of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), the company that holds more bitcoin than any other. Since 2020 he has been bitcoin's loudest corporate advocate, known for his quotes and memes.
- Orange pillA riff on the red pill from The Matrix (1999), in Bitcoin orange: the moment someone “gets” Bitcoin, or the act of explaining it to a friend (“I orange-pilled my dad”). We built a whole page for doing it kindly.
References
- David Gerard, 2019 davidgerard.co.uk