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
Jup I can’t btw fuck Apple.
💷💶💵💴 Bitcoin should be an orange note with a ₿ on the left side, just like the other specific currency emojis.
It will piss the crypto bros off that their special Internet money looks the same as fiat
We already have a bunch of currency specific emojis, so it’s already too late for this notion 💱💲💰🪙💷💶💴💵💸
Bitcoin is not a currency
Why not?
Depends on who you ask
It is a good lithmus test indeed.
Yes it tests whether someone knows what a currency is.
It says enough about a person’s worldview and education if they are serious about bitcoin being a viable currency. Specifically bitcoin. That was my point.
Appealing to Wikipedia is… a choice.
A lot of things exist in emoji because of early adopter advantage. A lot of the money stuff is either dollar or yen for this reason because they were first to the table. It’s the same reason there are also so many other non-money emoji that represent quite uniquely Japanese cultural concepts in there.
There’s a heck of a lot of world currency missing from emoji, but I would never suggest adding them all in. Everyone across the world is quite happy to use emoji with $ on as a synonym for ‘money’ regardless of what currency they actually use, so that already gets the job done as “generic money symbol”
It works because $ is so culturally ubiquitous.
When it comes to designing a new emoji that represents ‘digital currency’ we could take a similar approach as with fiat currency and just pick the most well known one (BTC) and roll with it.
But my preference would be to do otherwise, and design a non-specific emoji which represents the concept but without just being an existing logo.
There’s a heck of a lot of world currency missing from emoji, but I would never suggest adding them all in.
Me neither, I actually think there are way too many emoji already
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.
o really? 💵💶💴💷
but seeing these are physical representation of those currencies… bitcoin’s emoji can be a usb stick (at least having an actual USB stick emoji can be useful in some cases like when making guides)
robux emoji when?
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
Who gives an actual fuck?
a change.org petition, for or against bitcoin, is the perfect manifestation of bitcoin: entirely pointless
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.🤯: me when ☦️, ☪️, ☯️, ☸️, ✝️, 🕉️, ✡️ all have emojis making each one legitimate.
They’re stupid internet pictures people aren’t going to make financial decisions off of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion
They’re all legitimate, doesn’t make them factual.
There is also an emoji for thieves. A cute one, even. Will young people start living that thing life because of the emoji?
How do you think the whole “be gay, do crimes” started? /s
What exactly is your definition of legitimate?
I don’t think emojis should be the place to have a socio-political discussion. Emojis should reflect how people popularly communicate.
Having said that, in regards of impressionable folks:
If Christianity gets to have a cross emoji (which is a torture device, let’s remember), then so should Bitcoin. And I don’t even like either!
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If scientology had an emoji then the comparison would be apt.
Why?
Is there a case of the unicode comission blocking proposals of a scientology emoji?
I don’t think emojis should be the place to have a socio-political discussion.
have some entirely non-political emojis:
🗳️: BALLOT BOX WITH BALLOT
🇹🇼: FLAG: TAIWAN
🇵🇸: FLAG: PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
🗽: STATUE OF LIBERTY
🤡: FACE OF “NON-POLITICAL” PERSON
Good for you. I never said I’m “non-political.” That’s a red herring, but just to be clear: did you miss the part where I said that emojis should represent what people think or talk about? All those examples you put are exactly what I meant. And did you miss the part in which I mentioned Christianity? Because if you think that Christianity is a non-political thing today, then I got news for you.
BACK to the fucking discussion: You’re proving my point that the emoji bitcoin should then be included. Because a large group of people talk about it, in pro- or against.
this isn’t debate club, come back later
addendum to what my co-admin said: don’t come back later, these posts are so fucking terrible I don’t want them in my database
When does it just become free advertising though? Should McDonald’s get an arches emoji?
I don’t know if I’m reading this right because it seems so retarded? Make emojis open, why are they locked down to begin with? They’re KB-sized silly icons.
There is a wine emoji… There is a cigarette emoji…
People with fragile mind could think that it’s perfectly healthy to consume that stuff…
There is even a bomb emoji… People with fragile mind could…
Edit: Thanks for the dislikes. Negativity is way better than sharing arguments!!!111
yeah you’re annoying as fuck and we don’t need your posts
There’s people out there that don’t think emojis are as stupid as Bitcoin. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Either way, there’s some people out there and they’re wrong.
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Very good and well made
👤💰 ?
Maybe a hot take, but I think emojis are stupid, so maybe bitcoin deserves one after all?
Emojis are not stupid when used well. They help add more context to a text.
If people use emojis stupidly, chances are they’ll use “the alphabet” stupidly as well if there were no emojis. As in “lol like wat de eff amirite anyway bei felicia!”
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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i’m fifty, and you’re full of it.
😡🤜☁️
PUNCH THE FART
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“uncle sam…”
𓆯𓇋𓂋𓎼𓇋𓈖 𓉔𓇋𓅂𓂋𓅱𓎼𓃭𓇌𓊪𓉔𓇋𓎢𓋴 vs 𐤊𐤄𐤃 𐤐𐤄𐤍𐤎𐤍
This may be the best usage of emojis ever. I think we should probably shit down emojis as a whole, they’ll never get better than this comment.
Oh, shoot. I mean
☝️🤯👏🎉
IMO the best use of emojis was when Chinese citizens used them to share info about covid while the govt was actively censoring it (that article calls them emoticons for some reason though)
Silly emojis and joke emojis are good, though.
Bitcoin is the same scam as the dollar is.
We already have 🅱️
we also have 💩
ay 🅱️🅱️, wan sum fuk?
crime coin should be banned since its only use case is illegal activity
You can’t ban the roads because smugglers use them
Aktually, you can’t ban roads because normal people 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.
here in the world, money is a function of society
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
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.
I really wish there could be an option to have money outside of government control.
Define control
Knowing the where, who and why of every transaction. In other chain I agree cash is a good alternative but without an electronic component that I would prefer.
Ban cash then! BTC isnt a holy grail but a deregulated international currency isnt a bad idea
boy was that a quick exit
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”
