• @tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
    123•4 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 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
      32•4 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•4 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

          • MiiEnglish
            13•4 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

    • @EddoWagt@feddit.nlEnglish
      17•4 months ago

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

      • @tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
        -4•4 months ago

        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.nlEnglish
          4•4 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

    • @Wilzax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•4 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
    37•4 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]English
      11•4 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
      18•4 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•4 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.

        • Programmer BelchEnglish
          -6•4 months ago

          Yes, I agree there is a stigma around bitcoin because of the amount of scams and ransomware that is around them but I don’t want to delegitimize decentralized currency.

          Currently the options are really bad because of the amount of resources they consume and their use as an investment option. I really wish there could be an option to have money outside of government control.

          • Sailor Sega SaturnEnglish
            19•4 months ago

            I agree decentralized currency is great.

            All I need is some quarters and I can start my laundry without waiting half an hour for the centralized blockchain ledger’s global state to acknowledge the transaction.

            • Programmer BelchEnglish
              -4•4 months ago

              That’s true, cash can be a more private alternative to electronic transactions but I also want an electronic counterpart, something with private and public keys. I am not knowledgeable enough on currencies and transactions to know how the system would work

                • Programmer BelchEnglish
                  1•4 months ago

                  Blockchain will never be a good system of private transactions as it takes too many resources to run it and you have to fork it all of the time because the chains get too heavy. That much I know and agree with.

                  I want an alternative and currently after the grift made because of crypto, no one wants to innovate in a private and decentralized currency. In truth, I haven’t searched that much for an alternative.

            • Programmer BelchEnglish
              1•4 months ago

              Knowing the where, who and why of every transaction. In other chain I agree cash is a good alternative but without an electronic component that I would prefer.

    • Shawdow194
      -6•4 months ago

      Ban cash then! BTC isnt a holy grail but a deregulated international currency isnt a bad idea

  • aasatru
    16•4 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.

  • @self@awful.systemsEnglish
    16•4 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

  • @oo1English
    15•4 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.

  • @BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
    14•4 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”

      • SteveEnglish
        10•4 months ago

        The fediverse has randomly placed wormholes

      • David GerardMEnglish
        8•4 months ago

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