Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) - eviltoast

35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
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      3 months ago

      So, if there’s already a symbol in Unicode, the petition doesn’t make any sense. They should ask Google and Apple to display the symbol in the emoji list, with a control character to force it as emoji.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Totally. It’s double weird, because it’s not a petitionable issue, it’s a form where you make your case and a committee decides, and they already have the symbol and they just seem to want it to be usable like 💲, which isn’t a thing.