The HOT NEW THING in peer-to-peer crypto-currency! Bitcoins are currency backed by math! It's like the gold standard, but instead of beardy prospectors, we use video cards!!! Everybody freak out, it's the Cryptonomicon come to life! It's like Lindens, but without the doll clothes! It's the most dangerous open-source project in the history of electrons!

When folks ask you, with a confused look, "So... what are bitcoins good for?" you can point proudly to your shiny, embroidered, bought-this-bitcoins-badge-with-Bitcoins badge and say "Why, you can use bitcoins to buy this badge proving you used bitcoins to buy it!" And let's face it, this kind of recursive jackassery is the entire reason Randy and I started doing Nerd Merit Badges in the first place.

So: If you send us one bitcoin (that's 1฿, to be Unicode-y about it), we will send you one "bought this bitcoins badge with bitcoins" merit badge. Like all our nerd merit badges, these are round, 1.5" in diameter, and have a velcro hook-side back. Buy a bunch and stick them inside your coat just like Lefty the Letter Salesman! Put 'em on your laptop sash and use them to buy, er... bitcoins?

Here's how to buy a badge from us:

1. Add your name, email, and snail-mail shipping address into the embedded Google Doc form below.

2. Eventually, we respond to you over email with a unique bitcoin payment address. (We check the form about once a week)

3. You send one bitcoin for each badge you want to that payment address. 

4. The next time we check our BTC transactions (about once a week) and see your payment, BOOM we ship the badge to you!

Price: 1.0 BTC per badge
Color: Orange, with silver metallic ฿ glyph
Shipping: free worldwide shipping via US Postal mail

PS. No, this is not a joke. We are really making these badges (we make one-offs fairly often), and we will really send you a real bitcoin badge in return for sending us a bitcoin. If the value of bitcoins appreciates above our normal selling price, we will make more money. If it goes down, well then that's too bad for us. Once you've paid your bitcoin, you'll get your badge.

PPS. It says "sold out" down below this paragraph because you can't buy one of these badges with dollars. That's so two-thousand-and-late! The only way to buy a BTBBWB badge is with bitcoins, using the form above. (Once there's a bitcoin plugin for Shopify, we'll use that.)