No Ceiling in Sight for Bitcoin Value, Analysts Say On 2/17/21 at 4:39 PM EST Bitcoin's surge to $50,000 for the first time has created a new acronym: HOFDL—Hold On For Dear Life. "Hof-del" captures both the buy-and-hold strategy driving Bitcoin higher and the cryptocurrency's inevitable volatility in the future. "Bitcoin is the gold standard of cryptos," Dr. Richard Smith, CEO of The Foundation for the Study of Cycles, a non-profit research institution based in Pittsburgh, told Newsweek. "There is a fixed number of Bitcoin. Many holders have a 'never sell' attitude and we haven't seen that before." Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey has said he is "passionate" about Bitcoin.