Phrase 'Bitcoin to the moon' first in 2010 at Bitcointalk forum

[notblox1]

I say hopefully he does it, and the sooner the better.  That way we can all pick up lots of bitcoins very, very cheap.

With a maximum of only 21 million in circulation no one will ever be able to do a 'helicopter Ben'.  Either bitcoins are going to catch on and their value is going to skyrocket to the moon, or they will wither on the vine.  Somebody artificially holding, buying or selling bitcoins won't be able to manipulate their value in the long term.

Everyone holding bitcoins has an incentive to spread the word far and wide, or build websites that use bitcoins, or build opensource products like CMS store plugins or social media plugins that use bitcoins because the greater the use of bitcoins, the more your holdings of bitcoins increase in value.

Well known phrase Bitcoin to the moon was first mentioned here in Bitcointalk forum back in September 27, 2010 by member bimmerhead.
At that time Bitcoin worth in terms of USD was around $0.11 and we have gone a long way and more than ten years since then.
After looking bimmerhead post history I am not sure if this is still the same member or not... but original comment is now legendary  
Bitcoin - skyrocket to the moon

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[Rizzrack]

On the same note "HODL" was invented on bitcointalk also. And as any great invention it happened due to a mistake
I AM HODLING

I type d that tyitle twice because I knew it was wrong the first time.  Still wrong.  w/e.  GF's out at a lesbian bar, BTC crashing WHY AM I HOLDING? I'LL TELL YOU WHY.  It's because I'm a bad trader and I KNOW I'M A BAD TRADER.

The guy is still around 

[notblox1]

The guy is still around  

He is not active since August 13, 2020 but it is interesting to see his trust feedback profile filled with HODLers.
Check both trusted and Untrusted feedback for more

[Twentyonepaylots]

I wish we could still new vocabularies to crypto up til now, it's like creating our own language that a normal person could not easily understand 

wish I could invented my own words, It would be very feels so proud when all people in the crypto space is using it.

[OcTradism]

If you are talking about bitcoin, the term for a halve of block rewards need to be digged to find its origins. There are two words for it: halving and halvening.

Today people commonly use the word halving but the word halvening has its interesting orignin. You can get more details in the topic I gave you (Pmalek found some good details)
when was the word "halvening" created.

I managed to find a post dating back to 2012 that mentions 'halvening' on BT. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128228.0

Regarding the term, someone suggested that it is a term associated with the altcoin Dogecoin:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3o89yz/the_halvening/cvv1vza/

Dogecoin talks about 'halvening' in 2014.
http://www.dogedoor.net/halvening/

Couldn't find who created the term and where it was first used, but could be an interesting investigation  

Some other BT threads about halvening from 2015-2016
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1205386.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290879.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1445247.0

Terminology (yogi)

[Welsh]

I don't think they realized what they created both positive, and negative. On the one hand, its a nice little phrase that it seems that most people are aware of which creates exposure to Bitcoin, and its self explanatory what it means from an outsider. However, I'd estimate over 20k reports on users just saying "to the moon", predominantly within the altcoin section, but also within Bitcoin discussions too. So, although its probably primarily seen as a good thing, it has caused a few headaches on the other hand.

I wish we could still new vocabularies to crypto up til now, it's like creating our own language that a normal person could not easily understand 

wish I could invented my own words, It would be very feels so proud when all people in the crypto space is using it.

It might be cool for those in the know, but if we want people to adopt Bitcoin, and its ideas then we want to remove jargon as much as possible. Its why laymen terms exist, because digesting written laws, and medicine studies for the average person is quite difficult because of the prevalence of jargon. The one off doesn't really hurt, and is easily searchable, but when you start incorporating more, and more complex "slang", then it becomes harder for people to become involved with Bitcoin.

[HeRetiK]

Nice find OP! I didn't fully realize how long that phrase has been blessing / haunting crypto by now, but upon closer inspection even Reddit's ToTheMoonGuy has already been around since 2013. We've come a long way!

I don't think they realized what they created both positive, and negative. On the one hand, its a nice little phrase that it seems that most people are aware of which creates exposure to Bitcoin, and its self explanatory what it means from an outsider. However, I'd estimate over 20k reports on users just saying "to the moon", predominantly within the altcoin section, but also within Bitcoin discussions too. So, although its probably primarily seen as a good thing, it has caused a few headaches on the other hand.

Kinda like every overused catchphrase or meme really. I personally am more tired of every cycle of "the next Bitcoin" and newfound fashionable technobabble.

[notblox1]

Terminology (yogi)

That is cool terminology and I am sure nocoiners and people who don't know anything about crypto would not understand most of the things.
Imagine me talking about moon, orphan blocks and hot wallets
I wonder did anyone released any guide or booklet with all this terms for helping newbies?

[mediaBuzz]

How did you measure that because I would have guessed namecoin or LTC. I'm pretty sure name coin and LTC are "bigger" than ShitCoin but please tell me how I am wrong.

also, this one seems to be the first time someone used the all-known term "shitcoin", I guess..

[Harlot]

Nice find OP! I didn't fully realize how long that phrase has been blessing / haunting crypto by now, but upon closer inspection even Reddit's ToTheMoonGuy has already been around since 2013. We've come a long way!

I don't think they realized what they created both positive, and negative. On the one hand, its a nice little phrase that it seems that most people are aware of which creates exposure to Bitcoin, and its self explanatory what it means from an outsider. However, I'd estimate over 20k reports on users just saying "to the moon", predominantly within the altcoin section, but also within Bitcoin discussions too. So, although its probably primarily seen as a good thing, it has caused a few headaches on the other hand.

Kinda like every overused catchphrase or meme really. I personally am more tired of every cycle of "the next Bitcoin" and newfound fashionable technobabble.

The expression/phrase "to the moon" itself isn't really original in Bitcoin since it has been used even before Bitcoin was created so adding it to other cryptocurrencies doesn't make it look like they lack originality. It is simple reasoning if Bitcoin has use that in referring to them trusting Bitcoin to go up in an unbelievable value then I don't see any reason why other cryptocurrencies can't use that phrase, for me personally I would accept this rather than them having a new kind of term like ETH to Mars because it looks like they are also saying Ethereum is superior than Bitcoin.

[HeRetiK]

How did you measure that because I would have guessed namecoin or LTC. I'm pretty sure name coin and LTC are "bigger" than ShitCoin but please tell me how I am wrong.

also, this one seems to be the first time someone used the all-known term "shitcoin", I guess..

Since SolidCoin (the coin talked about in that thread) has been dead since 2012 (based on github activity and google search results) and apparently at one point allegedly switched to a centralized authority we're not only looking at what seems to be the first usage of the term "shitcoin" but also at the first shitcoin itself!