Bitcoin Symbol Left Out of Unicode’s Latest Version
The effort to get Bitcoin its own Unicode symbol just had a big setback, despite previous promises that it was accepted and many expected it to be included in this year’s upgrades. Why is Unicode’s Inclusion Important? Unicode is the official keeper of symbols for our computers and keyboards, such as $, @, and ~. Each started out as a picture first with....
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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....
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,....
As obvious an oversight as it could be, attempting to type the bitcoin symbol via text, email, or on webpages is not the easiest thing. However, after a successful vote at the latest Unicode meeting, users will be able to easily type the character. The #Bitcoin sign is accepted by Unicode. My second addition to Unicode, probably more useful than the group mark. https://t.co/ZOoBGGMmX3- Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff) November 3, 2015"The Bitcoin symbol is clearly popular enough that it should be in Unicode," said Ken Shirriff, the author of the proposal, in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine.....
There was a mistake made in reporting Twitter-user @ken_lunde and Reddit-user 'kenshirriff' as the same person earlier. This is not true and the article has since been edited and updated. Sincere apologies to both Kens. The Bitcoin sign has been accepted by the Unicode Standard and will be included in a future version of Unicode. This is the Bitcoin symbol: ₿. It's a box right now but not long from now, a version of the Unicorn Standard in the future will ensure that refreshing this page at that point in time will have the Bitcoin font turning up instead. The recognition bestowed upon the....
The Winklevoss twins have filed an amended Form S-1 with the SEC. The minor update reveals a few new facts about the Winklevoss exchange traded fund (ETF). So far Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have updated their ETF filing four times. The process of registering an ETF is painstakingly slow: the twins originally filed for an investment fund a year ago, on 1st July 2013. New update reveals ETF symbol. According to the latest filing, shares in the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust will trade on the NASDAQ OMX under the symbol 'COIN'. There are a number of cosmetic changes too, described by the Wall....