Why should the Bitcoin community adopt this symbol?
Since the birth of Bitcoin, a large number of logos and symbols have been introduced. The most popular is a bold falling serif B, intersected by two vertical dashes à la U.S. dollar.
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The problem is that the image on the left is a logo! It’s a unique image file, just like it could be used by a company to sell or promote a product. Currencies are represented by symbols like $, € or ¥, aiming to be used everywhere by everybody. The Thai Baht (฿) is sometimes used to represent Bitcoin, but this certainly raises a problem of differenciation between the Thai Baht and Bitcoin.
Ƀ is not a logo but a symbol: Unicode Character U+0243 can be used any Unicode text editor.
This unicode character was originally used as a phonetic symbol to represent or transcribe the sound [β]. Thus the context of this use does not allow any confusion with the Bitcoin currency.
The idea to use Ƀ as a symbol for Bitcoin is not new ; this character was one of the original candidates to represent Bitcoin, but most of the community’s proposals were more fancy logos than a manifesto for the usage of a symbol. A logo is defined as a centralized graphic identity composed of colors, fonts, and shapes chosen by a small group of individuals. Bitcoin, however, is a decentralized currency – it’s neither a brand nor a product or company, and what we need for representing Bitcoin is a symbol rather than a logo.
The Ƀ symbol can be displayed in many fonts, some of which may already be installed on your computer. Here is a list of freely downloadable libre fonts that support the Ƀ symbol:
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Arial and Times New Roman both support the Ƀ symbol as well. They are not libre fonts but they can be found on almost every systems.
Help us popularize Ƀ!
Create images, and use Ƀ in Bitcoin-related apps, websites and paper.
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As a widely distributed, peer-to-peer digital currency, Bitcoin needs an open-source graphic identity, designed with open source software by and for the community. It has to be as minimal as possible to allow further adaptations. Because Ƀ is simple, extendable and perennial, it fulfills all those requirements.
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Outline (as SVG file)
Fonts that support U+20BF
| Unicode Data | |
|---|---|
| Name | BITCOIN SIGN |
| Block | Currency Symbols |
| Category | Symbol, Currency [Sc] |
| Combine | 0 |
| BIDI | European Number Terminator [ET] |
| Mirror | N |
| Index entries | BITCOIN SIGN |
| Comments | a cryptocurrency |
| Version | Unicode 10.0 (June 2017) |
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B And Q
| Encodings | |
|---|---|
| HTML Entity (decimal) | ₿ |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ₿ |
| How to type in Microsoft Windows | Alt +20BF |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x82 0xBF (e282bf) |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10000010:10111111 |
| UTF-16 (hex) | 0x20BF (20bf) |
| UTF-16 (decimal) | 8,383 |
| UTF-32 (hex) | 0x000020BF (20bf) |
| UTF-32 (decimal) | 8,383 |
| C/C++/Java source code | 'u20BF' |
| Python source code | u'u20BF' |
| More... | |
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| Java Data | |
|---|---|
| string.toUpperCase() | ₿ |
| string.toLowerCase() | ₿ |
| Character.UnicodeBlock | CURRENCY_SYMBOLS |
| Character.charCount() | 1 |
| Character.getDirectionality() | DIRECTIONALITY_EUROPEAN_NUMBER_TERMINATOR [5] |
| Character.getNumericValue() | -1 |
| Character.getType() | 26 |
| Character.isDefined() | Yes |
| Character.isDigit() | No |
| Character.isIdentifierIgnorable() | No |
| Character.isISOControl() | No |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierPart() | Yes |
| Character.isJavaIdentifierStart() | Yes |
| Character.isLetter() | No |
| Character.isLetterOrDigit() | No |
| Character.isLowerCase() | No |
| Character.isMirrored() | No |
| Character.isSpaceChar() | No |
| Character.isSupplementaryCodePoint() | No |
| Character.isTitleCase() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierPart() | No |
| Character.isUnicodeIdentifierStart() | No |
| Character.isUpperCase() | No |
| Character.isValidCodePoint() | Yes |
| Character.isWhitespace() | No |