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Unfortunately that ship has sailed. The B with the two vertical lines through it (akin to the dollar sign) is "the Bitcoin symbol", no matter what other kinds o
by CanSpice 13y ago
Unfortunately that ship has sailed. The B with the two vertical lines through it (akin to the dollar sign) is "the Bitcoin symbol", no matter what other kinds of symbols people come up with.
- calibanban 13y agoThis is exactly what people say about the dollar, it's too big for anything to compete. Things that are better win.
- vernie 13y agoPeople on HN seem to buy into that fantasy far too often.
- Zikes 13y agoIf that's your argument you'll have to save it for when I can pay my mortgage and taxes in BTC.
- jerf 13y agoTaxes (to I presume some American government for the purposes of my reply here) are a bad example; taxes are defined as being collected in American Dollars. That is the purpose of American Dollars. Paying a mortgage in BitCoin is at least not out of the question someday. (Though you'd have to be pretty brave to denominate your mortgage in BitCoin... and the counterparty would also be being pretty brave....)
- sliverstorm 13y agoyou'd have to be pretty brave to denominate your mortgage in BitCoin I prefer "clinically insane"
- gnaritas 13y agoNo they don't. Things have to be significantly better to win, not just better, but way better.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> This is exactly what people say about the dollar, it's too big for anything to compete. Things that are better win. Actually, things that are both good enough and first win over things that are better (considered in isolation) all the time; network effects and transition costs, among other contributing factors, are real, even though they are the kind of things that are often assumed away in simplistic analyses.
- letstryagain 13y agoYes everyone uses ฿ already. Just do a google image search for Bitcoin and you'll see.