I recently watched the movie Goosebumps 2 with my kids and Bitcoin was once again mentioned briefly in this movie. The one boy mentioned Bitcoin and the other boy called it Nerd money.
<My kids turned to me and said, Are you a nerd?>
So it got me thinking, why would people label Bitcoin as Nerd money, when people use electronic payment options like PayPal every day? What feature about Bitcoin gives people this impression about Bitcoin?
The first thing that comes to mind is the technical IT knowledge that people need to understand the concept about this technology and also it's origin amongst very highly skilled programmers and developers in the IT industry.
I am definitely not a nerd, but I am more than willing to carry that label, if it means that Bitcoin should be part of my skill and knowledge set in this world.
Bitcoin Nerds will rule this world! <Bill Gates is 100% proof of that>
Maybe the writers and the researchers of that movie didn't pay much attention to what does a Crypto Currency mean or what is the use of Bitcoin and just created their own concept and understanding about Bitcoin as nerd money, this shows that most of the people have a few knowledge or do not have any knowledge of what Bitcoin is. But anyways there is nothing wrong about being a nerd because most of these nerds are possessing minds that you can't find in an ordinary individual.