Quote from: Karamabit_209 on April 29, 2019, 01:28:50 AM

Quote from: Kakmakr on February 04, 2019, 06:47:17 AM

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. Roll Eyes

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. Grin

Bitcoin Nerds will rule this world!

No, obviously people who uses bitcoin generally are not a nerd. If you will try to find the definition of a nerd, it doesn't suit as all. The biggest factor that validate my statement is that a nerd is an introvert person and lacks social skills, who surely doesn't suit as all, like me. I am a good social person. I usually talk and engage to social activities, which a nerd doesn't do. For example, when I am bored, I play on a gaming site . I have a great regular playmates there whom I played and talk with. When sometimes I have problems there, I usually call customer care and have no problem dealing with them, talking to them what problems I have encountering and what they or I can do to deal with that problem. A nerd can never do that, he usually weaken when he or she will talk to people even though it is only a call.

For the most part, you're right, nerds are usually relatively anti-social with a difficult time interacting with most people, but you could also consider nerds to be people who are just very technologically inclined, as most of the community is. Nerds are kind of colloquially known as people who are very good with computers in general, not necessarily anti-social.

As for whether Bitcoin is "nerd money" or not, I'd argue that it kind of is, in the sense of nerds being tech-savvy individuals. Not a lot of people without at least some kind of interest in computers will get into Bitcoin, despite the fact that it is probably easier today than it has ever been to get actively involved with Bitcoin in the past. You have apps, online wallets, basically every tool at your fingertips that you'd have with "traditional" banking. All that has to happen is for people to actually try and get involved with the community. Of course, that's somehow "too difficult" for some people.