Bitcoin Forum

http://www.coindesk.com/industry-website-advocate-bitcoins-unicode-symbol/



Proposed New Symbol:

https://i.imgur.com/SQcsL8Y.png

i like it

NEW symbol is nice, but shouldn't be a concern. Once we get mass adoption down, THEN we should worry about a new symbol.

Here's the interesting part:

Upside-down cross, fail.

Bitcoin cat, win.

What's wrong with the current one .

It is not a Unicode Symbol, so you can't write it, you could just copy/paste the Picture. I don't think, that would work in e.g. Excel.

old news. i remember this symbol trying to gain consumer confidence 2 years ago.. but BTC is always better
others have been the thailand baht (single vertical line) ฿

the problem is that Ƀ is a alphabet letter.

this is like called a dollar S or a pound E which is boring as hell...

bitcoin needs a symbol that is NOT in the alphabet of any language. and that is why i think that making bitcoin as boring as the latin letter is silly, lazy and not inspirational.

and that is why the majority love BTC. but w all know that this industry want Ƀ so they can get their 15 minutes of fame.

If Microsoft can put a Windows key on every qwerty keyboard they can add BTC to Excel.

I really dislike very badly this new symbol. A logo, a symbol, a sign is made, thought-out from the beginning to integrate the whole idea behind it. That symbol does not give me such a understanding, and doesn't looks good either + don't forget the conspiratorial theory related to it.
If the problem is scalability and fonts and things like this, there is no need for an unknown group of people to change this without the approval of the people who are interested in this. I think people who are sane will likely don't get fool about this sort of distraction. In the end, Unicode will make and map a special character named Bitcoin.

You don't know what Unicode is, do you?

Better?
http://i61.tinypic.com/t0536w.png

Yeah, how about we let some randoms come in and demand to change a widely recognized symbol.

No way... if you're an early adapter, make your voice heard.

Looks like a dalek. The other way round it looks like a fat dude.

EDIT: Also, "industry group"? Seems like one dude with a website to me.

If I'm right that's basically one of the old alternative symbols.

It doesn't matter much what this industry group aims at. The Bitcoin symbol that people use will win in the end - and will eventually be included in Unicode.

The current symbol is much more common at the moment, so let's see how this turns out.

just for lol's
https://i.imgur.com/rQR82RT.jpg
Bitcoin, riding into the future of finance
Bitcoin, Peddling its way into to a town near you
Bitcoin, Revving - lutionary
Bitcoin, cycling hashes to protect your wealth

Boobs.

I wanted to comment on this.

It's funny that some "industry group"   (anonymous people who made a web page) publicly declare that they "aim to change" the bitcoin symbol.

The community will need to rally behind the idea or it wont go anywhere.

And I'm not seeing much enthusiasm.

-B-

PS:   Why are some companies using the wrong symbol already?   Lamassu ATM's have the wrong symbol?

Your industry group is an idiot.

Who are you to tell what's right or wrong?  8)

new symbol is bad, we dont need new symbol, old is good enough :)

Lol they need to fuck off.

Unicode isn't carved into pillars of stone. There's plenty of room to add BTC.

choose a horned B(east) or an upside down cross lol

Read further down the website of the 'industry group', and you'll learn that this 'industry group' is merely a single design house in France.

I agree, I like the original better (BTC), and adopting an existing character with other possible meanings seems like a quick fix to me.

After looking through the process to submit a new unicode character, I would think this would be a great project for the Bitcoin Foundation or similar...

http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html

Every body thinking what I think of how  it should be ?  ;D ;D

It's a good way to gain additional traction, but I personally don't think it looks as "elegant" as it could be.

[I mean after all, unicode supports some pretty complex characters from other languages. Not that I'm saying to make it complex.]

The new symbol isn't likable.
If it has to be unicode, then we need a better one.

As much as this may make some here roll their eyes, the whole "inverted cross" thing is going to be milked beyond belief, if this symbol is adopted.

Trust me.  And you're looking at hundreds of millions of people.   While you may consider them idiots, they are still an issue.

Put the line at the top like one guy joked on Page 1, and you may end up with a completely opposite response (good) from hundreds of millions of faith.

They will spin it as Bitcoin being sent from above to provide help to the masses, and ruin the power of the corrupt.

Trust me.  I know how this demographic thinks.  Was part of it once.

But the proposed one will only cause extreme drama from huge groups of people.

-B-

Here's who's behind it: http://bitcoinsymbol.org/

http://who.godaddy.com/whoisstd.aspx?domain=bitcoinsymbol.org&prog_id=GoDaddy&k=%2fwKo4FTTUj1FmVKQOTusgLkObsHMJg1tYx8OP%2f4+cE2+bgcchy1cFjNjeM4uadofiTJ3aNx1xEE%3d


He designed the following logo, of which looks familiar. Has anybody seen it before?: http://pootee.tumblr.com/post/4609157671/raphael-bastide-blog-i-designed-a-logo-and

http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljnhiecqTR1qz4g9eo1_1280.png

Double facepalm for Jesus.
The upside down cross = No way.

A real cross = Holy Sh^t look at all that money.  :D

Budget    $30 million
Box office    $611,899,420
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ


The current BTC symbol looks much better, IMO.

Well I don't really care either way as long as it is included in unicode but my preference is for this BTC over that B

You mean like everybody first bought apple stuff and only then they created the brand?

Joe

Poll has been added; express your opinions!

That B looks like it has oral herpes.  Simply repulsive.

http://www.stdcheck.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cold_sore_2.jpg

Do we really want people to be repelled by bitcoin?

Agreed. I am comfortable with idea of changing the symbol to something Unicode, but this proposed one looks no good. More alternatives needed.

Question is WHO is promoting this and for what reasons. From a symbologistic perspective it does not look healthy or positive in any way, but like a B stabbed in the back. The currently dominating symbol with the two rays on the bottom and two on top looks much more balanced and 'healthy' - a bit like those images of space-alines on ancient rock carvings…

Seems like they are changing it so the can trademark it too, I think no one should buy into this scam.  Another greed looking to make money off of trademarking leave the old bitcoin be.

the 2 vertical lines in the dollar symbol are actually a hack of the original symbol (a U super imposed on an S).  so I don't necessarily agree they should carry over to BTCitcoin.

I greatly enjoy the new symbol (looks Euro   ;D)

Did you miss my post above answering that question?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=563046.msg6148219#msg6148219

yea lets get right of a symbol that has gotten tons of exposure

smart

There is almost zero chance that the upside down cross will gain popular approval.

nice symbol is nice

https://i.imgur.com/qyDMSw7.png

/fixed

If it has to change, that isn't too bad.
The current one could be "unicoded" someday?

Oh NO that symbol is a lot worse than what we have and look like doge symbol

Thanks for the inspiration

https://i.imgur.com/mPsahGl.jpg

 :P

Boggie/Boge coin?
OK how many Billion will be made?  :P

Only 1 BogeCoin will be made; that's pre-mined by me and I am the current holder. Since there are no more BogeCoins to be mined, it makes the current 1 BogeCoin value as infinite. However seeing your good conduct and Hero member status, I am kindly agreeing to trade the invaluable BogeCoin for 1000 BTC. No escrow accepted and you go first :P

Don't like it.

What's wrong with the existing one? BTC

https://i.imgur.com/APQoCuO.jpg ♂ or ♀ https://i.imgur.com/GQBqRWQ.jpg

Pointy Boobs

nipply boobs

The former symbol looks better

I don't see any upside down cross here . Unless "T" would be considered blasphemy

I see no reason why we need a new symbol that a group of idiots can trademark and then try to sell to everyone else at (for them) hopefully a nice sum. It's basically self-perpetuated highway robbery. BTC is just fine as it is 'industry group' be damned.

The Dollar is not a D with a line through it... it's a $

The Pound Sterling is not a P with a line through it.... it's a £

Perhaps we're not thinking outside the box enough.

I have it!

This can be the new symbol for bitcoin

https://i.imgur.com/yBhaafq.jpg

When it crashes:
https://i.imgur.com/V1Zgtvs.jpg

When it's reaching new all time high's:
https://i.imgur.com/rfAP6on.jpg

Don't like it.


Once Bitcoin is mainstream and in massive use, it will be able to use pretty much whatever it wants to and everyone will follow. That's how mainstream things work.

lol. humorous at least

Fair point. Although, I think a lot of people have gotten used to seeing the a "B" associated with bitcoins.

[That said, I don't think they were necessarily thinking "outside the box" when creating those symbols, I think they were just looking for something convenient. £ comes from the latin word "libra" (a measure of weight), and it's widely believed that the $ came from pesos a sort of mashup of P and S due to the trading with Spanish. However, we could take a similar approach and do a mash up of binary and the letter B or something.]

Then, let's think outside the box, first considering...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Origin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg/225px-Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg.png


What may make sense is taking the B & C of BitCoin, then somehow superimpose the two letters to create something pleasant to the eye and unicodeable.

Has anyone suggested a flying BTC as follows since Bitcoin is faster to transfer around the world directly to individuals without exception than fiat.

http://www.coolpage.com/commentary/economic/shelby/btc.png

I never saw a flying Bitcoin symbol but for some reason I thought of the advertising being the red bull of Bitcoin it has wings lol.
Followed by cryptographic hash functions.

The b with stroke looks like shit in both majuscule and minuscule forms, when reduced to a smaller pt font size. It's going to get ridiculous if you're typing along in a small font as is desirable or required, and have to switch just for that character to higher pt, then back down afterward to continue typing, and in the end you'll have a shittily typeset document where there's big gaps between the lines with the stroked b in it.

Proposed symbol looks like a nice graphic but I really think that the current symbol is better on the eye in typed form.

Bitcoin might be in relatively early days, but is it too conflicting to change the symbol at this stage, for what is already a confusing concept for the uninitiated?

I think they want to change BTC symbol just coz it has some small similarity with US $ . Liberty dollar got banned over that. So i guess they don't want to have anything similar to $ 

Don't much care for this particular design, but the current one isn't that great either...

+1

i agree and don't like the Proposed one

Perhaps a perturbation of a  $  with a padlock or a lockbox,  since a BitCoin is not a plain ol' currency unit --- it's a CryptoCurrency unit.

Isn't this the worst time to change the logo???