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Petition: Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by smallpatatas@lemm.ee to c/buttcoin@awful.systems

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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

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[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 118 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 32 points 3 months ago

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: 

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 19 points 3 months ago

lul

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[-] FMEEE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

Jup I can't btw fuck Apple.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 20 points 3 months ago

We already have a bunch of currency specific emojis, so it's already too late for this notion 💱💲💰🪙💷💶💴💵💸

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Bitcoin is not a currency

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[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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)

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 32 points 3 months ago

We already have 🅱️

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

we also have 💩

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago

ay 🅱️🅱️, wan sum fuk?

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 25 points 3 months ago

how did this of all the posts break containment

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

crossposting, I think, but I was also 🤨 for a moment there..

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

wait no it's not literally crossposted

yeah I got nothing.

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[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Who gives an actual fuck?

[-] michael@westergaard.social 24 points 3 months ago

a change.org petition, for or against bitcoin, is the perfect manifestation of bitcoin: entirely pointless

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 18 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

🤯: me when ☦️, ☪️, ☯️, ☸️, ✝️, 🕉️, ✡️ all have emojis making each one legitimate.

They're stupid internet pictures people aren't going to make financial decisions off of them.

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion

They're all legitimate, doesn't make them factual.

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[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 21 points 3 months ago

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 months ago

Bitcoin has an emoji but moths don't... Wtf

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago

It doesnt have an emoji yet

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

crime coin should be banned since its only use case is illegal activity

[-] Shawdow194@kbin.run 9 points 3 months ago

Ban cash then! BTC isnt a holy grail but a deregulated international currency isnt a bad idea

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

boy was that a quick exit

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[-] self@awful.systems 16 points 3 months ago

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

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 16 points 3 months ago

Easier to distinguish between people who want to establish a patriarchal white ethno-state, and people who just like ancient Greek sculpture

Nice.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

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"

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

robux emoji when?

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

What the fuck happened here?

[-] smallpatatas@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

i dont know i just posted a silly thing and all hell broke loose 😭

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

The fediverse has randomly placed wormholes

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

don't worry you can't break the fediverse it comes pre-broken for your inconvenience

[-] zout@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago

Maybe a hot take, but I think emojis are stupid, so maybe bitcoin deserves one after all?

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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!"

[-] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

emojis are stupid

Really curious on what grounds, like is the entire idea of a pictogram stupid?

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