Usually used by a bitcoiner as a response to a nocoiner expressing some excuse for choosing to remain poor.
Bitcoiner: “You said you were about to buy bitcoin for the first time last week, how’d it go?”
Nocoiner: “Oh, it went up 2% right before I clicked ‘buy’ so I decided to wait for the dip”
B: 🙄
B: “so did it dip back since then?”
N: “umm, no, it went up another 15% the next day”
B: “wow, I guess you learned your lesson... did you buy at that point?”
N: “no, I’m waiting for it to drop back to the price where I first heard about bitcoin”
B: “HFSP”
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”