• self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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

  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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”

  • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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)

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

    • aasatru@kbin.earth
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      5 months ago

      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.

      • Potatisen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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.

      • FireTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        🤯: 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.

      • laughterlaughter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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!

        • ebu@awful.systemsEnglish
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          5 months ago

          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

          • laughterlaughter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            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.

      • lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 months ago

        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…

        • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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          5 months ago

          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

  • zout@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    Maybe a hot take, but I think emojis are stupid, so maybe bitcoin deserves one after all?

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
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      5 months ago

      emojis are stupid

      Really curious on what grounds, like is the entire idea of a pictogram stupid?

    • laughterlaughter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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!”

  • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • aasatru@kbin.earth
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    5 months ago

    Easier to distinguish between people who want to establish a patriarchal white ethno-state, and people who just like ancient Greek sculpture

    Nice.