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Author Topic: The Thai Baht (฿) has always been the most frequently used Bitcoin symbol right?  (Read 30399 times)
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October 12, 2012, 02:27:00 AM
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If the store is clearly in the jurisdiction of either Canada or the US, then there is no contest. Duty-free shops, shops on the border, and online shops all (no exceptions) list US $ or CA $.

You mean like this online shop?

http://tinyurl.com/92nu4rm

I see dollar signs everywhere but no indication of USD vs CAD.
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October 12, 2012, 02:30:27 AM
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The examples Luke-Jr posted (including the page specifically created for this he linked) don't look very good on my system either (more like a B with a single vertical line but farther to the right than the Baht symbol).  Of all of the single-character symbol options posted here, I don't see any significant reasons that ฿ or Ƀ can't be used.  I agree that the confusion with the other currency using that symbol would be minimal - I am more than used to seeing things listed with three letter codes in addition to currency symbols for clarity (e.g., $15 USD) and in fact use that myself anytime there is any possibility of confusion.  At the same time, I think the need for a single-character symbol is grossly overstated.  It's not a crisis that we don't have a standard symbol that can be used on any system - I use "BTC" to denote the currency anyway because I think it's easier.  And "BTC" will work on most any system widely used, for obvious reasons.
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October 12, 2012, 02:33:39 AM
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If the store is clearly in the jurisdiction of either Canada or the US, then there is no contest. Duty-free shops, shops on the border, and online shops all (no exceptions) list US $ or CA $.

You mean like this online shop?

http://tinyurl.com/92nu4rm

I see dollar signs everywhere but no indication of USD vs CAD.

Orbitz operates solely in the United States, therefore is clearly in the jurisdiction of the US.
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October 12, 2012, 04:10:44 AM
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Orbitz operates solely in the United States, therefore is clearly in the jurisdiction of the US.

I'm not in the United States yet I can purchase from Orbitz. 
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October 12, 2012, 04:49:52 AM
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As the owner of www.bahtcoin.com I feel obliged to drop my 5 cents into the discussion. There is no BTC sign in the website at all. And not for the reason to avoid confusions. We are here in Thailand do not use this sign in everyday life. It can be seen as a decorative or idiomatic element on billboards or signage, but in everyday life texts, price tags -- none. Or extremely rare.

Those signs are merely convenient and used in the environment where several units involved (dollar, cent, pound, shilling, guinea). Or maybe in third world countries where many currencies rotated simultaneously. Thailand is neither of them. It is has stable local currency and units are small (1 Baht ~ 1/30 US dollar) to avoid operations in fraction units (though formally it exists 1 Baht = 100 Satang). So whatever money amount written always means Thai Baht by default.

So I bless you to use whatever sign you like even BTC. No big deal. It won't be any confusion anyway. And when you use really many currencies (particulary in Bitcoin context) you may see that not all of them has distinctive signs. Even large ones like Russian Ruble, Chinese Yuan. Imagine how odd they would look in such list for instance: www.centraw.com/?page=rates  You will have to avoid using signs for the sake of uniformity. Three-letter codes are absolutely fine in all cases and well cosmopolitan.
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October 12, 2012, 07:51:05 AM
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Lets use the cross † as the bitcoin symbol. Who cares about christians? That religion is so insignificant on a global scale that I don't think adopting their symbol of faith would cause any harm or confusion.

The Baht is a religious symbol?

Bitcoin is.
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October 12, 2012, 12:06:30 PM
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As the owner of www.bahtcoin.com I feel obliged to drop my 5 cents into the discussion. There is no BTC sign in the website at all.
Um, sure there is. Right there at the top of the page to the left of "bahtcoin". I don't see any other symbol for Bitcoin either.

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October 12, 2012, 03:17:15 PM
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As the owner of www.bahtcoin.com I feel obliged to drop my 5 cents into the discussion. There is no BTC sign in the website at all.
Um, sure there is. Right there at the top of the page to the left of "bahtcoin". I don't see any other symbol for Bitcoin either.

That looks like a logo/image to me.  Even the filename, bahtcoin-logo.gif, indicates that.

You're being a pedant, Stn was clearly referring to the lack of any symbols adjacent to any of the numeric values for currency in baht.

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October 12, 2012, 04:12:59 PM
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The Baht is a religious symbol?
Bitcoin is.

Touché
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