Petition: Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji
Petition: Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji
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
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.
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:
We already have a bunch of currency specific emojis, so it's already too late for this notion 💱💲💰🪙💷💶💴💵💸
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.
💷💶💵💴 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
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.
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)
We already have 🅱️
we also have 💩
ay 🅱️🅱️, wan sum fuk?
how did this of all the posts break containment
crossposting, I think, but I was also 🤨 for a moment there..
wait no it's not literally crossposted
yeah I got nothing.
We assumed too much good faith. Time to lock it down
I'm sorry 😂
Who gives an actual fuck?
a change.org petition, for or against bitcoin, is the perfect manifestation of bitcoin: entirely pointless
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.There is a wine emoji.... There is a cigarette emoji...
People with fragile mind could think that it's perfectly healthy to consume that stuff.............
There is even a bomb emoji....... People with fragile mind could......
Edit: Thanks for the dislikes. Negativity is way better than sharing arguments!!!!!111
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.
🤔
Bitcoin has an emoji but moths don't... Wtf
It doesnt have an emoji yet
Easier to distinguish between people who want to establish a patriarchal white ethno-state, and people who just like ancient Greek sculpture
Nice.
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
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.
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"
crime coin should be banned since its only use case is illegal activity
I thought lemmy would be the kind of place that'd support ways to pay for things that don't need to be approved by a government. not all laws are just.
Theoretically: I love the idea of bitcoin.
Realistically: it requires exchanges, large amounts of power, etc.
Plus, governments have little interest in making illegal behavior easy. Many of the economic costs of bitcoin are that its an easy way to make stolen goods inaccessible.
If all bitcoin had to be purchased and sold in cash without credit cards or electronic banking I think it would make far more sense as a form of e-cash. But as it is, I think it damages society more than it benefits - which is the easiest justification for outright banning commercial usage of it.
You can't ban the roads because smugglers use them
Aktually, you can't ban roads because normal people use them
we can ban the crime coin because literally the coiners themselves admit it's crime coin and that that's a problem for crime coin
also roads are useful for non-criming and crime coin isn't
Ban cash then! BTC isnt a holy grail but a deregulated international currency isnt a bad idea
boy was that a quick exit
robux emoji when?
What the fuck happened here?
i dont know i just posted a silly thing and all hell broke loose 😭
The fediverse has randomly placed wormholes
don't worry you can't break the fediverse it comes pre-broken for your inconvenience
👤💰 ?
Very good and well made
Maybe a hot take, but I think emojis are stupid, so maybe bitcoin deserves one after all?
emojis are stupid
Really curious on what grounds, like is the entire idea of a pictogram stupid?
Emojis are not stupid when used well. They help add more context to a text.
If people use emojis stupidly, chances are they'll use "the alphabet" stupidly as well if there were no emojis. As in "lol like wat de eff amirite anyway bei felicia!"
Silly emojis and joke emojis are good, though.
