HODL or hodl is term used in community of cryptocurrency for holding the currency rather than selling it. The term HODL is misspelling of word “hold” firstly used by a person known as Hodler. It was originated in December 2013 by a person named Hodler who posted in bitcoin forum with subject “I AM HODLING”. The well-known website TheStreet.com mentioned it as preferred word of bitcoin holders. In year 2017, Quartz listed HODL as one of the necessary slang terms in bitcoin community. The term HODL was originally used in relation to holding bitcoin but now it also used to define holding the other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum.