Your perspective might seem overly cynical to some.

As a counterpoint: it's funny/playful, it speaks to their niche, and it speaks to the utility/functionality of their product.

When dealing with people's money, funny/playful isn't something a company should be.

You are on a website called "Hacker News" hosted by a venture capital company named after an obscure mathematical function. Said venture capital company invested in companies worth a total of $155 billion[1].

The markets love funny and playful.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/

Explain to me how any of those things are remotely similar to jokes based on someone misspelling a forum post and joking about bag holding.

Founder of HodlBot here.

For better or for worse, we named the project after the HODL meme as an ode to the early investors of cryptocurrency.

Out of curiosity, we mined every mention of the comment HODL on Reddit from 2017-2018 and looked at how the average # mentions of HODL were affected by price volatility.

https://www.hodlbot.io/blog/how-cryptocurrency-prices-affect...