Sat Symbol Initiative Attempts to Get Satoshi Design Widely Adopted by the Bi...
Over the last few days, cryptocurrency advocates have been discussing the Sat Symbol initiative, a goal that aims to get a specifically designed symbol to represent the smallest unit of bitcoin and also get the symbol widely adopted. The Sat Symbol has been promoted by a number of crypto luminaries but others have offered alternative ideas. Initiative Attempts to Tie Symbol to Bitcoin’s Smallest Unit Most people know that Satoshi Nakamoto is the inventor of the Bitcoin protocol, the “purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash” that was launched on....
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"Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason. Why the Gunpowder treason. Should ever be forgot!" November 5th just passed and most of us know that it was Guy Fawkes Day. The 'guy' who almost bombed the English parliament in the 16th century and died for it. While the day was originally commemorated in the United Kingdom for his failure to bomb the parliament and assassinate the king in the process, his mask now stands for something quite the opposite. The present day symbolism of the Guy Fawkes mask is influenced by the movie V for....
We have received a lot of comments on the new Bitcoin symbol Ƀ that has been proposed to take over the well known ฿ by Bitcoin Symbol.org Reddit users have shown their dissatisfaction on multiple reddit threads including up-voting a recently written piece by CCN's Caleb Chen: Caleb wrote: A group of industry leaders, including Lamassu, preev, a-ads, Zeroblock, Honey Badger!, and Tip4Commit, have committed to use Ƀ in all situations possible. In general, I think the Bitcoin community is largely against this move. Supporters of the classic ฿ point out that Satoshi Nakamoto himself utilized....
My Wall Street Bitcoinz Logo ftw! If you've been keeping up with your CryptoCoinsNews, you'll know about the New York City Bitcoin Center's Logo Design Competition. "Bridging the gap between the Bitcoin industry" and major Wall Street primary dealers, high frequency traders and corporate raiders sounds like a deal good enough to put the devil and his blood-signed contracts to shame! So I've decided to enter, to show my 100% genuine and non-sarcastic support for this project! In my design, I've tried to capture the ethos of Wall Street plus all the wonderful benefits it can bring to the....
An effort to better represent bitcoin as a symbol has been launched. The Unicode Ƀ symbol has been chosen by a website of industry members as a way to better legitimize bitcoin as a symbol both in print and online media. It is already an existing Unicode character under the non-profit corporation Unicode Consortium, which describes it as a "latin capital B with stroke" that has the hex Alt +0243. A number of bitcoin companies already use Ƀ as the symbol to denote bitcoin. They include ZeroBlock, Lamassu and Tip4Commit. The current bitcoin symbol. Bitcoin has long been denoted as B⃦,....