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Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) (thedabbler.patatas.ca)

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

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[-] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 28 points 3 months ago

This will likely be rejected for one the same reasons that they decided they would not add any new flag emojis. Flags come and go. Bitcoin hasn't even been around for 20 years yet, and its future is highly uncertain.

Also, considered as a currency, it would be better as a regular text character, not an emoji. Like $, €, ¥, £, etc.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 3 months ago

I actually don't mind it being added as a text character because then I can actually use it. Using it as an emoji is useless to everyone other than the crypto bros that want to spam it on Twitter.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Where are you unable to use emojis?

[-] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago

I don't know about strictly "unable" but there are a million contexts where it is a bad idea and simply not done. Like a spreadsheet or financial document. Or anywhere you want your text to behave like text — with a consistent font, color, style, etc. The difference between $ (text) and 💲 (emoji) is pretty stark in most contexts.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 3 months ago

For example, on the dark background of the UI I am viewing your comment on, The $ symbol is in white colour (as the font has been set).

But the emoji is dark grey, and wouldn't be visible if I had a cheap, low contrast monitor.

[-] Trev625@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For me it looks like this:

So the text one appears the same for both of us but the emoji one appears differently which could possibly change its meaning if they were different enough

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 3 months ago

Probably because the emoji fonts don't change their colour with the font.color, which normal characters do.

And your browser is using a different font from mine

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