Bitcoin symbol accepted for Unicode

[unamis76]

Looks like we have been accepted for the next revision of Unicode! Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be news or a thread about this... Only a twitter announcement, but I bet this will be discussed a lot in the next few hours

What do you all think? I think this is great news!

[Amph]

i can only think likeyou,  this is great, many great news lately are coming all together, and they are actually doing something to the market, instead of being just vaporware

i hope in the future, this symbol will be added to keyboard also, maybe remove the fiat symbol altogether  

[Digit-0]

Looks like we have been accepted for the next revision of Unicode! Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be news or a thread about this... Only a twitter announcement, but I bet this will be discussed a lot in the next few hours

What do you all think? I think this is great news!

ok ok, first at all, lets RETWEET it guys!!!

That's a great news for sure, just on the fact that this will be discussed bring me a real hope about it. This is so exciting, because it will impulse bitcoin a lot, and people who dont know it, will start to ask themselves whats is this symbol

i hope in the future, this symbol will be added to keyboard to, maybe remove the fait symbol altogether 

I hope that too, that will be awesome, i can't wait to see that symbol on my keyboard lol.

[SFR10]

Great news indeed and a greater proposal made by Ken Shirriff which thanks to him, we could use in the near future the BTC sign in more places and the way he explained the proposal, I'm speechless honestly, didn't knew it could happen but I was wrong on the matter

[Velkro]

This is huge, it won't go away, it will last no matter how bitcoin will handle itself
Viva la bitcoin!

[TibanneCat]

Very cool news, thanks for sharing 

i hope in the future, this symbol will be added to keyboard to, maybe remove the fait symbol altogether 

You'd still need the $ for programming and other purposes but I agree that keyboard manufacturers should include BTC on their next designs

[Mickeyb]

This is a great news indeed mate. Thanks for sharing it. Good news don't stop to pour in lately. I am more and more sure that this is a catalyst of this amazing current run. Assembly of great news and happenings in the Bitcoin ecosystem and around it.

[dothebeats]

Finally! Another acknowledgment from the general public! This is actually a big news because people have been pushing this to be implemented and it seems that we finally have our hands on it.

...i hope in the future, this symbol will be added to keyboard also, maybe remove the fiat symbol altogether 

You can request keyboard manufacturers for it since it is already a unicode, though I'm not sure whether they'll be interested or not.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Another milestone in 2015 for bitcoin. You know this baby just might be creeping towards what we are all hoping for

[worhiper_-_]

Here is is ₿ !
taken from the reddit post
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3rb4in/bitcoin_sign_was_just_accepted_for_unicode/

Perhaps theymos as the admin of the forum could apply a font to this as he does to [btc ] BTC

[Carlton Banks]

Very cool news, thanks for sharing  

i hope in the future, this symbol will be added to keyboard to, maybe remove the fait symbol altogether  

You'd still need the $ for programming and other purposes but I agree that keyboard manufacturers should include BTC on their next designs

Preferably get rid of the "Windows" key also, just needs changing to a symbol meaning "menu" seeing as that's what it does on Windows anyway (as well as most other OS'es)

[aakashsangwan]

Finally! Another acknowledgment from the general public! This is actually a big news because people have been pushing this to be implemented and it seems that we finally have our hands on it.

...i hope in the future, this symbol will be added to keyboard also, maybe remove the fiat symbol altogether 

You can request keyboard manufacturers for it since it is already a unicode, though I'm not sure whether they'll be interested or not.

Another milestone in 2015 for bitcoin. You know this baby just might be creeping towards what we are all hoping for

thats what this all are the reason for the current price increase of bitcoin, because now everyone is accepting the potential of bitcoin and everyone wants to hold it before it goes higher odd, bad luck i sold my 0.1 btc @ 334 usd, no problem, i still carry some more will sell on 400 usd.

[mexxer-2]

Awesome news, I guess this was the result of the price increasing.
BTW shouldn't this be considered a spot here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=87.0 ?

[Bitcoininspace]

This is definately a step in the right direction and a big goal reached for the bitcoin community.

Makes me proud to have been sort of early in this game.

Way to go.

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

This is pretty huge. Anyone knows what key combinations you have to press to make the symbol appear? I wish they would release a keyboard with a more accessible key combination (for example a simple shift + a number one like we use for $), and the key would show the BTC symbol. We need to make it a standard in every keyboard on the planet.

[Betwrong]

This is pretty huge. Anyone knows what key combinations you have to press to make the symbol appear? I wish they would release a keyboard with a more accessible key combination (for example a simple shift + a number one like we use for $), and the key would show the BTC symbol. We need to make it a standard in every keyboard on the planet.

Yep, that would be great! And then maybe tens of millions of people who still don't aware of Bitcoin's existence will become curious of what it is.

The price is rising already, but we need more reasons for its rising and stabilising.

[Bitcoininspace]

This is pretty huge. Anyone knows what key combinations you have to press to make the symbol appear? I wish they would release a keyboard with a more accessible key combination (for example a simple shift + a number one like we use for $), and the key would show the BTC symbol. We need to make it a standard in every keyboard on the planet.

Oh god yes, I can see it next to my ctrl-alt e for €.
I want a ctrl-alt b for bitcoin. <3

[NorrisK]

Awesome news, I guess this was the result of the price increasing.
BTW shouldn't this be considered a spot here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=87.0 ?

It doesn't go that fast to get accepted in there.

I remember some people discussing a while ago that they had submitted a request to get it added, timing is just perfect though!

[zimmah]

Looks like we have been accepted for the next revision of Unicode! Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be news or a thread about this... Only a twitter announcement, but I bet this will be discussed a lot in the next few hours

What do you all think? I think this is great news!

That is pretty big news indeed, now we need Bitcoin on keyboards as well.

Did someone call Logitech yet?

A true international keyboard layout should have a Bitcoin shortcut on it.

[Parazyd]

Oh how awesome! Now I'll be able to use it with my all shitty fonts