This Is Gentlemen

"This is gentlemen" is an informal phrase in crypto communities announcing that a decisive moment has arrived, most often that a sharp upward move in price is starting. It reads as a clipped version of "this is it, gentlemen", and its deliberately awkward grammar is part of the joke. The phrase is generally traced to early bitcoin forum culture, although its exact origin is not well documented, and it spread through trading chat groups and social media. It is typically posted alongside charts during breakouts, in the same spirit as "to the moon" and "when Lambo", and can also be used sarcastically after a false start. Like much crypto slang, it captures market excitement and the fear of missing out, or FOMO, rather than offering any analysis, and many moments greeted this way turned out to be short-lived.