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35 crypto companies made a Change Dot Org petition called "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji"
F that
Sign this one instead: "Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji": https://www.change.org/bitcoin-is-stupid
edit: how dare you downvote my surely good points that bitcoins are worthy of not just an emoji but a nobel prize!!!!!
adding this to your post will get you laughed at and then banned
Emojis should be purely generic, and not represent an individual product or service.
No apple logo. No BMW logo. Generic.
Imagine if every brand had a fucking emoji, what a wasteland that would be. And then in years to come the unicode character space is littered with dead brands that have gone the way of the dinosaur but still living on in emoji form like digital trash, because emoji are permanent. There's no taking it out once it's made.
So I'd support an emoji to represent the notion of 'digital currency' but it should be generic, not Bitcoin.
There are some brand emojis in the Private Use Area, such as the Apple Logo and Twitter Logo, but they're not a part of the standard and thus aren't included in most fonts. Only Apple users can see this:
lul
it renders as the co logo on fruitcompany hardware
although now I wanna go check the codepoint to see why it rendered as that on your side
On Apple devices some installed fonts contain the Apple logo at this position. However, it is not recommended to use it in this way, since people with other operating systems will most probably not see this character.
The ConScript Unicode Registry suggests to use this codepoint for the Klingon Mummification Glyph. This encoding has been endorsed by the Klingon Language Institute.
lol
We already have a bunch of currency specific emojis, so it's already too late for this notion 💱💲💰🪙💷💶💴💵💸
There is a bitcoin unicode symbol though. ₿
Easier to distinguish between people who want to establish a patriarchal white ethno-state, and people who just like ancient Greek sculpture
Nice.
On the one hand, Bitcoin as an emoji would be basically useless.
On the other hand, it could work as an easy shorthand for "scam"
What the fuck happened here?
i dont know i just posted a silly thing and all hell broke loose 😭
don't worry you can't break the fediverse it comes pre-broken for your inconvenience
The fediverse has randomly placed wormholes
👤💰 ?
Why on earth an emoji anyway? $, €, £ and ¥ aren't emoji either.
And now that I look, Unicode already has ₿ (U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN). Just use that. Or better yet, don't.
how did this of all the posts break containment
Bitcoin is stupid and therefore deserves an emoji. It is not worthy of ascii-art. (_!_)
Edit , this shitty webpage doesn't support ascii-art. Re-edit, needed to add escape characters, true art is always born out of struggle.
Is...that supposed to be a butthole or a theigh gap
a butt, per the logo of this sub
Bitcoin has an emoji but moths don't... Wtf
robux emoji when?
crime coin should be banned since its only use case is illegal activity
You can't ban the roads because smugglers use them
we can ban the crime coin because literally the coiners themselves admit it's crime coin and that that's a problem for crime coin
also roads are useful for non-criming and crime coin isn't
Yes, I agree there is a stigma around bitcoin because of the amount of scams and ransomware that is around them but I don't want to delegitimize decentralized currency.
Currently the options are really bad because of the amount of resources they consume and their use as an investment option. I really wish there could be an option to have money outside of government control.
I agree decentralized currency is great.
All I need is some quarters and I can start my laundry without waiting half an hour for the centralized blockchain ledger's global state to acknowledge the transaction.
That's true, cash can be a more private alternative to electronic transactions but I also want an electronic counterpart, something with private and public keys. I am not knowledgeable enough on currencies and transactions to know how the system would work
Like gnu taler?
Seems to be what I was suggesting and it doesn't even need blockchain. Another area that doesn't need the blockchain I guess
Happily there are plenty of good examples of how such a system would work in practise… Web3 is Going Just Great, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain or Amy Castor perhaps.
Blockchain will never be a good system of private transactions as it takes too many resources to run it and you have to fork it all of the time because the chains get too heavy. That much I know and agree with.
I want an alternative and currently after the grift made because of crypto, no one wants to innovate in a private and decentralized currency. In truth, I haven't searched that much for an alternative.
The problem isn’t just the nature of blockchains, the problem is the uses to which such systems will be put. The explosion in ransomware fuelled by bitcoin et al isn’t something that can be replicated with physical cash at the same scale, for example (consider why you want electronic cash in the first place). Similarly, the need to “be your own bank” will always expose you to a greater risk of fraud and theft and loss, because being a bank is harder than people seem to think.
The technology involved is (almost) irrelevant.
I wanted this "electronic cash" to make it easier to carry cash without ending with lots of coins in my wallet. The point of being your own bank seems dangerous and too convoluted to make it more convenient.
I guess I will keep trying to use cash whenever I can and call it a day.
So I realise that this is very euro-centric and the majority of people on earth don’t get this sort of convenience, but… fast and easy interbank transfers and contactless debit and credit card payments just do all the stuff that most people want out of electronic cash, and transaction logs are a small price to pay for a substantial reduction in risk.
Who gives an actual fuck?
Well.
Step one. Bitcoin gets emoji.
Step two. Young people and other folks with fragile minds think it's legit because it has an emoji.
Step three. Poor people lose their money.
Outcome: The rich get rich, the poor stay poor.
Alternatively:
Step one. Bitcoin gets emoji.
Step two. Young people and other folks with fragile minds think it's legit because it has an emoji.
Step three. Crypto currencies keep burning through resources as if it was a Brazilian rainforest.
Outcome: The few lucky ones will feel really stupid living in their bunkers after the collapse.
a change.org petition, for or against bitcoin, is the perfect manifestation of bitcoin: entirely pointless
Maybe a hot take, but I think emojis are stupid, so maybe bitcoin deserves one after all?
emojis are stupid
Really curious on what grounds, like is the entire idea of a pictogram stupid?
I'm 48 years old, so I didn't grow up with them. I do think some of them have their place though, but there's quite a lot of novelty emojis. So I guess that I'm an old guy who only likes the old ascii emoticons.
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