Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji
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Why we should oppose an official Bitcoin emoji

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

F that

  • nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 months ago

    fighting for bitcoin to get an emoji is stupid, but fighting against it might be even stupider. surely there are more important things to spend your time and energy on. it’s a fucking emoji. who cares?

  • lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Short reminder that Bitcoin was created as a reaction on the world finance crisis and to allow people like Assange to receive donations, because PayPal and similar just blocked them…

    That does not mean that Botcoin is perfect, but: If the alternative system was perfect, there was not bitcoin.

    Now, do we need an emoji? I don’t care TBH…

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I don’t mind a system like bitcoin existing but bitcoin itself has way too many problems to be useful and actually is detrimental to the environment. It takes way too long to process a transaction, it is massively energy intensive for what it is, and it’s been hyped up like the Californian gold Rush.

      Sure it was created to solve a problem but it doesn’t actually solve that problem very effectively. It also introduces an infinite number of new problems that no other currency system has ever experienced.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        7 months ago

        It also introduces an infinite number of new problems that no other currency system has ever experienced.

        Infinite problems, eh? Can you name like 10?

  • Aopen@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Emoji? Why not unicode character like $ or €?

    Edit: Dear OP, please stop popularizing these ₿rat’s marketing ideas

  • AnAmericanPotato@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This will likely be rejected for one the same reasons that they decided they would not add any new flag emojis. Flags come and go. Bitcoin hasn’t even been around for 20 years yet, and its future is highly uncertain.

    Also, considered as a currency, it would be better as a regular text character, not an emoji. Like $, €, ¥, £, etc.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I actually don’t mind it being added as a text character because then I can actually use it. Using it as an emoji is useless to everyone other than the crypto bros that want to spam it on Twitter.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You don’t get a new Emoji by creating a change .org petition lol

    You need to write a proper proposal and send it to the Unicode consortium: https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html. If it gets rejected, it’s four years until you can reapply for the same Emoji.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      A Bitcoin emoji was rejected in 2020 i doubt it will be any different this time.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
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    7 months ago

    I don’t mind there being an emoji for cryptocurrency. It’s a relevant thing in modern society whether we like it or not, so there’s no reason it should be excluded. But just not Bitcoin, specifically. Even though Bitcoin is the one that kicked off crypto, it’s still a brand name, which would result in auto-rejection according to the Unicode Consortium’s guidelines.

    If there was a more general-purpose icon/symbol that could represent cryptocurrency in general, that’d be more appropriate. But it can’t be Bitcoin.