35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

  • nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    fighting for bitcoin to get an emoji is stupid, but fighting against it might be even stupider. surely there are more important things to spend your time and energy on. it’s a fucking emoji. who cares?

    • smallpatatas@lemm.eeOP
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      4 months ago

      normalizing scams, by laundering their image via standards organizations, pollutes our communications environment. Both an emoji and a petition are symbolic - and our symbols are in fact important.

      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Bitcoin isn’t a scam. All non-bitcoin cryptocurrencies are scams.

        People often hear about stuff like coins that are pre-mined, or proof-of-stake and the schemes and scans that come out of those, and immediately associate Bitcoin with the same thing.

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          4 months ago

          That is also not 100% true. There are several altcoins with fantastic utility. Monero and Ethereum come to mind.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            Exactly. Most cryptocurrencies are scams, but a handful are fantastic. Ethereum is cool for being proof-of-stake (so no high-energy mining), and Monero is cool for being super privacy-oriented. There are a handful more, but honestly, if you stick with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero, you’ll be fine.

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              4 months ago

              That’s pretty much exactly my thought. I hold a very very small amount in Polygon, but only in order to pay the gas fees for the Polygon network. So I never have more than a few US dollars worth in it at a time.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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                4 months ago

                Yeah, I basically just do Monero, and I use it as a spend account and use it anywhere it’s accepted. I don’t invest in any cryptocurrencies because I don’t think cryptocurrencies have positive expected return (it’s all hype), so I keep the amount of crypto I have small.

          • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
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            4 months ago

            Ethereum has scam characteristics though. The creator Vitalik gave himself time to mine it alone before giving public access. He secured for himself quite a nice stash

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              4 months ago

              That’s true. I suspect the application programming is the only reason that it actually took off.

        • glassware@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Of course bitcoin is a scam. It’s a “currency” you can’t spend anywhere. It’s only purpose is a pump and dump scheme for early adopters.

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            4 months ago

            It’s a “currency” you can’t spend anywhere.

            You could’ve at least pretended to have done some basic research…

          • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            It’s a “currency” you can’t spend anywhere

            Lol

            It’s only purpose is a pump and dump scheme for early adopters.

            This is exactly what many alt-coins are but Bitcoin is decidedly not.

            You’re confusing “easy to mine” with “early adopter scam”.

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      4 months ago

      millions of people who use emojis would constantly see it. It would slowly start to feel more familiar to them and increase its acceptance. If that works, others would try to do the same and we would have every and any company put their logos in. If it doesnt then it doesnt matter that much, but i dont want to risk yet another avenue for corporations to worm into peoples minds.

      Personally i dont care about emojis at all but i do care about general mentalspace.