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I think ฿ is becoming de-facto bitcoin sign quickly. And sincerely it looks more appealing as a currency sign either.
by gesman 14y ago
I think ฿ is becoming de-facto bitcoin sign quickly.
And sincerely it looks more appealing as a currency sign either.
- bpierre 14y agoExcept ฿ is already the sign of the Thai baht (currency of Thailand), which is pretty confusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_baht http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_baht
- jl6 14y agoNot a fatal issue. A plain $ sign is very often used to mean a non-U.S.-dollar currency, with minimal confusion due to context.
- GFischer 14y agoWell, according to Wikipedia it started out as the Spanish Peso (pre-dating the US Dollar), so it's no wonder that countries that use the Peso (like mine) use that sign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Origin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Origin BTW the character intending to be the Bitcoin Logo shows up as a box for me, I could only see it on the original link's page.
- brendoncrawford 14y agoI generally find this to be extremely confusing.
- mynameisvlad 14y agoReally? Why? If you're in a country where a dollar is used, and you see $, you assume it's the local dollar. If it's not, they'll use something to denote the currency. If it's the internet, same thing, you see if the company is Canadian, or American, or whathaveyou.
- iso8859-1 14y agoAnd what should they use in Thailand for Bitcoin?
- winthrowe 14y agoWhy not ฿ and ฿BTC much like we do $ and $USD here in Canada?
- mynameisvlad 14y agoThat has any significance to my comment... how? My comment was very specifically showing how using the dollar sign in a country where a local currency which is also a dollar (ie. Canada) but not USD is not confusing, because you have local context. You know you're not talking about the US Dollar, because the local currency takes precedence. And, as winthrowe replied, what would happen is you add a currency denotation after the value, such as CAD, USD, AUD, etc. It's already done all over the world.
- virtualritz 14y agoMy experience (from living in such countries) is that indeed people prefix with the country to make it unambiguous. I.e. AU$, CA$, etc.
- neeee 14y agoWikipedia already has a disambiguation page for it linking to bitcoin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%BF_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%BF_(disambiguation)