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Petition: Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by smallpatatas@lemm.ee to c/buttcoin@awful.systems
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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

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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: 

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lul

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.systems 12 points 3 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

[–] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Jup I can't btw fuck Apple.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We already have a bunch of currency specific emojis, so it's already too late for this notion 💱💲💰🪙💷💶💴💵💸

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

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

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We already have 🅱️

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago

we also have 💩

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago

ay 🅱️🅱️, wan sum fuk?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

how did this of all the posts break containment

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

crossposting, I think, but I was also 🤨 for a moment there..

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

wait no it's not literally crossposted

yeah I got nothing.

[–] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

I'm sorry 😂

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

We assumed too much good faith. Time to lock it down

[–] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bitcoin has an emoji but moths don't... Wtf

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago

It doesnt have an emoji yet

[–] self@awful.systems 16 points 3 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.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is...that supposed to be a butthole or a theigh gap

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

a butt, per the logo of this sub

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yea but the exclamation has a dot for an asshole or something. That's what I'm asking about

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 3 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"

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 11 points 3 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.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck happened here?

[–] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i dont know i just posted a silly thing and all hell broke loose 😭

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

The fediverse has randomly placed wormholes

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

don't worry you can't break the fediverse it comes pre-broken for your inconvenience

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

👤💰 ?

[–] zout@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

emojis are stupid

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

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

😡🤜☁️

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

🫵

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

𓆯𓇋𓂋𓎼𓇋𓈖 𓉔𓇋𓅂𓂋𓅱𓎼𓃭𓇌𓊪𓉔𓇋𓎢𓋴 vs 𐤊𐤄𐤃 𐤐𐤄𐤍𐤎𐤍

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago

“uncle sam…”

[–] averyminya 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

☝️🤯👏🎉

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

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)

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

PUNCH THE FART

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

🖔

i'm fifty, and you're full of it.

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

Very good and well made