Dogecoin founder Billy Markus lectured Binance CEO CZ about the history of crypto. The sympathetic bickering stems from a joke CZ made in a recent tweet.
Crypto lesson from Dogecoin founder to Binance CEO
Dogecoin founder Billy Markus drew attention to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao’s post on Twitter about the famous Dogecoin. Zhao had assumed that the word HODL was actually an acronym for “Hold On for Dear Life”. Dogecoin founder Billy Markus also responded to correct the CEO of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
The most popular meme coin in the market HODL has its origins in the Bitcointalk forum, which was a haven for crypto and Bitcoin enthusiasts when crypto did not reach the adoption levels we see today.
User “GameKyuubi” shared a long post almost 10 years ago explaining why he chose to hold (HODL) cryptocurrencies instead of trading them. According to Markus, the user who wrote the post was drunk at the time of writing. He misspelled “hold” as “i am hodling” – holding. Thus the word “hodling” was later used as an investment strategy. Markus gives a history lesson on the literal meaning of HODL in the following forum post in response to CZ.
What does HODL mean?
Investors who choose to HODL do not try to avoid price declines and do not actively trade. The only trade that follows the HODL strategy is to buy. As for the effectiveness of the strategy, if an investor had bought $100 worth of BTC in 2013 and held it thus far, he would have had almost $50,000 in the last ATH. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $29,194.54 and still fails to rise above the psychological price of $30,000.
Dogecoin founder calls 95% of cryptos “fraud”, Elon Musk reacts
In another recent development we covered in the news of Kriptokoin.com, Billy Markus has 95% of crypto money projects. A new controversy started after the company claimed that it was a fraud. Elon Musk responded to this tweet with a laughing emoji.
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