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Damilola Oyewumi
Damilola Oyewumi

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Crypto Jargons

FOMO- Fear of Missing out.

Shill- Someone purposely promoting something for their own benefit.

FUD- Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

HODL- Hold on to your dear life (or "hold your coins").

REKT- To suffer losses from coins that have dropped in value.

Mooning- When a cryptocurrency is about to soar in both price and volume.

Whale- An investor who owns 5% or at ton of attention leads to a coin's price increase; dump happens when the coin's price crashes after an associated spread of negative emotions.

Bag holder- Some holding unto a coin that has plummeted in price.

Sats- Short for Satoshis, the smallest unit of Bitcoin.

When Lambo? means "When are we going to get reach?"

Floppening- This is the instance where Ethereum would overtake Bitcoin's market cap and become the number one cryptocurrency (in progress)

No Coiner- A reference to people who don't own any bitcoin.

Vapourware- Coins that never become a reality.

Cryptosis- A desire to engulf every bit of information about cryptocurrency.

NGMI- Not gonna make it.

WAGMI- We're all gonna make it.

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