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

F that

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    4 months ago

    We also need a McDonald’s emoji, Pepsi emoji, Windows emoji and Mastercard emoji. These are also brands that are heavily ingrained in our culture. Probably even more so than Bitcoin.

    Or we accept that brands like Bitcoin shouldn’t use emoji as a marketing tool.

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      4 months ago

      Probably even more so

      probably? shitcoin isn’t even in the same ballpark universe as something like McDonald’s or Pepsi.

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        Yeah McDonalds is based on torturing and murdering animals while destroying the planet… While bitcoin is only destroying the planet like the rest of capitalism.

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      We also need a McDonald’s emoji, Pepsi emoji, Windows emoji and Mastercard emoji

      bitcoin is not a company.

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      Since when is Bitcoin a brand lmao? I’m really struggling to see how it is comparable to McDonald’s or Windows. Having a logo does not make you a corporation

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      Bitcoin is digital money. A better analogy would be to campaign for a USD, Yen, euro or British pound emoji.

      Oh wait, they already exist.

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          I agree with you.

          I’m not really arguing for a bitcoin emoji. Just against the McDonald’s brand comparison.

          BTC is not mainstream enough (and never will be) to be needed in everyday text speak.

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        Except those are real currencies the world recognizes.

        Most businesses will tell you to fuck off if you try to pay them in bitcoin.

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          Most businesses will tell you to fuck off if you try to pay them in bitcoin.

          Yes and no. You can indirectly pay for things in Bitcoin using a Bitcoin credit card. Although I’m not sure why you would want to.

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            It’s not “paying in bitcoin” if you have a random third party on your side converting it to a currency that isn’t a joke.

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        The logo and name is the brand. How do you visually represent a specific payment protocol without using its logo? There’s no emoji for HTTP or TCP either.

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          I’m actually for the idea of emojis for protocols. Not Bitcoin specifically because I don’t think it has long term potential as a deflationary virual asset, but block chain? Sure.

        • KⒶMⒶLⒶ WⒶLZ 2Ⓐ24@lemmy.world
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          while there may not be an emoji for http, maybe there should be. there is sort of an unofficial one (a broken lock), and there are other protocols that have logos. as another commenter said, it’s kind of silly to fight for an emojii for it, and probably sillier to fight against it.

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            while there may not be an emoji for http, maybe there should be.

            No God, Please No!

            We don’t need another gzip or bzip2 logo. Lol