BlokchainB

Interesting that it had momentum so early. I guess I would have figured it wasn't on the radar then. Then again, there was a lot of excitement around then. I'm not surprised bitcoiners could decide on what they wanted to do though...

Scoresby

Maybe because Bitcoin was only used by criminals back then! ahahaha ~lol

>Just realized this is actually already supported by Unicode: B⃦
There is also B⃫ with diagonal slashes instead...

At the end of the day, it was already supported and just needed a technical adjustment to be released. Now, why did it take them 6 years to do that?

Fenix

. The code point assigned to the bitcoin symbol is 

bitcoin

history

The **bitcoin symbol** was added to [**unicode**](https://home.unicode.org/) in [**June 2017**](https://blog.unicode.org/2017/06/announcing-unicode-standard-version-100.html) with the release of [**version 10.0**](https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/). The code point assigned to the bitcoin symbol is **U+20BF** (**₿**). It was categorized as a [**currency symbol**](https://www.unicode.org/charts/beta/nameslist/n_20A0.html).

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###### some digging on [unicode.org mail-arch](https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/):

* [2011/12/Jun | António Martins | Bitcoin sign](https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m06/0082.html)

  * > Here: [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Promotional\_graphics](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Promotional_graphics)
    > Maybe this will be suitable for encoding in the future. Looks like a
    > variant of U+0E3F THAI CURRENCY SYMBOL BAHT, with double stroke
    > showing only above and bellow the "B".
    > \--                                                                  \_\_\_\_.
    > António MARTINS-Tuválkin                                           |  ()|
    > \<antonio\_at\_tuvalkin.web.pt>         **Não me invejo de quem tem** |####|
    > PT-1500-111 LISBOA                       **carros, parelhas e montes**      |
    > +351 934 821 700, +351 217 150 939   **só me invejo de quem bebe**      |
    > ICQ:193279138  [http://tuvalkin.web.pt/](http://tuvalkin.web.pt/) **a água em todas as fontes**      |
* [2011/13/Jun | Roozbeh Pournader | Re: Bitcoin sign](https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m06/0096.html)

  * > This was discussed in the latest UTC meeting based on a proposal. The
    > committee asked for evidence of plain text use (which was not given)
    > and some research into its trademark status, IIRC.
* [2011/09/Jul | Luke-Jr | Re: Bitcoin sign](https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m07/0058.html)

  * > Just realized this is actually already supported by Unicode: B⃦
    > There is also B⃫ with diagonal slashes instead...
* [2015/03/Sep | Ken Shirriff | Upcoming proposal for Bitcoin sign](https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2015-m09/0031.html)

  * > I'm putting together a proposal for the Bitcoin sign to be added to
    > Unicode, so I wanted to check here if people have any
    > comments/concerns/objections. \[...]
* [2015/07/Sep | Martin J. Dürst | Re: Upcoming proposal for Bitcoin sign](https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2015-m09/0052.html)

  * > You write "The bitcoin sign and baht symbol are two unrelated symbols
    > that have some visual similarity.", but don't really give any supporting
    > information for that claim. \[...]
* [2015/07/Sep | Ken Shirriff | Re: Upcoming proposal for Bitcoin sign](https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2015-m09/0052.html)

  * > Thanks for your comments, Martin. Asmus Freytag gave a detailed response,
    > but I'd like to add a few things. \[...]
* [2015/07/Sep | Michael Everson | Re: Upcoming proposal for Bitcoin sign](https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2015-m09/0058.html)

  * > **Just want to say, I don’t think this one is a runner right now. I spent many months recently working with people associated with Bitcoin and they could not decide what they wanted to do.**

some digging on unicode.org mail-arch:some digging on unicode.org mail-arch:

~lol~lol