35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

  • ricecakeEnglish
    231·
    4 months ago

    I mean, we have a symbol for effectively any currency that anyone can or wants to fill out the paperwork for and can demonstrate the basics of “this is a meaningful symbol with more than transient relevance”.

    They added ₿ in 2016.

    https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Sc

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      So, if there’s already a symbol in Unicode, the petition doesn’t make any sense. They should ask Google and Apple to display the symbol in the emoji list, with a control character to force it as emoji.

      • ricecakeEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        Totally. It’s double weird, because it’s not a petitionable issue, it’s a form where you make your case and a committee decides, and they already have the symbol and they just seem to want it to be usable like 💲, which isn’t a thing.