• tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
    118·
    2 months ago

    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 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.

    • LostXOR@fedia.io
      32·
      2 months ago

      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: 

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          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

          • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
            13·
            2 months ago

            https://codepoints.net/U+f8ff

            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

    • Wilzax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      💷💶💵💴 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

  • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
    36·
    2 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
      10·
      2 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)

    • aasatru@kbin.earth
      18·
      2 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.

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 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.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    16·
    2 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

  • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 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
    15·
    2 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.

  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
    14·
    2 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”