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I do like the lightning bolt as a symbol, but I fear that usage will wither on the branch. It never even caught on that much among lightning wallets.
I used to like it, now it looks silly. It’s an emoji.
Ehhh that's a distinction without a difference, both are unicode characters, but yes a simpler one would probably be best
Ok fair, but ⚡️doesn’t look like a serious symbol for money like £ € $ ¥. Bitcoins Satoshis deserve a proper symbol. Using ⚡️is like an inside joke.
Also fair
There is this more basic one: 🗲
There's yet another even simpler one but i'm struggling to find it, dont know what its properly called
Might have been thinking this, but its font dependent... ϟ
SN font doesn't match what I expected but I've seen it elsewhere look better
great, let's use something that corresponds to the Q or the kaka; Qanon people will be ecstatic when they find out about bitcoin;
sarcasm
I am Q anon people, but true most fell for the xrp op
https://shapecatcher.com/ yields some other promising options but they all render fucky based on font
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Looks like my portfolio today
Haha
Always going up ain't sustainable!
try 🗲
NO; lightning bolts can go both ways, up and down; chakra system is a helical vortex going up and down the spine during activation;
that's also the concept behind the Magician tarot card:
- boots on the ground, grounded
- head in the space/cosmos, enlightened into the infinity
P.S. justin_shocknet, u get no opinion in this, u know a big fat zero about this topic, a round goose-egg of symbolic knowledge; it was supposed to be taught in kindergarten, but obviously most state schools rushed thru shapes curriculum;
this is 100% true. emojis are cute little cartoons.
I like it too. Coinos uses it.
Wallets generally have to unify balance between chain and lightning which is a complication. If you show the balance with a bolt, a user may assume their entire balance is on LN, when there could be a chain balance reflected in that
Amount is a factor too, it should really switch when the decimal value is greater than .009 or so where a chain payment is more viable
I was sympathetic to bits because I think people get hung up on <100 sats left in Lightning wallets because of fee reserves needed, and in chain context the last two digits are superfluous since tx fees will eat them anyway, they could be a smaller font (like cents)
Bits for Lightning and Chain balances bridge the gap a bit with long decimal values, problem is its not really a thing beyond an aesthetic abstraction and died before this was realized
lightning bolt as a symbol
Sats aren't mentioned here but you know immediately by looking at it what the unit is
Biggest drawback to bits in UX may be that if this was was a .11 instead of 11 you might think it was cents had I not put the fiat value underneath it
I can see how bits can be the most logical way to proceed...but they are dead in the water to me. I don't see people ever navigating some chunk of sats other than 1 bitcoin.
How would you think of a skulldugerous use of bits? don't call it bits but just make the last 2 sats when sats >99 being a smaller font than the 100+?
a meme for each step 😂😂😂
Inevitably true, but that's at least a few decades out
We also have to weaponize the hipster mindset, a new symbol harnesses virtue signaling powers
hahaha yes.
Did you know that the Thai keyboard already have the B symbol?
Thai Bhat symbol co-opted today, the dollar in 2050
all make sense now: Satoshi invented these symbols on keyboards long before they created Bitcoin... sneaky bastards
seriously, they selected number 7 for their currency symbol? that is fucked up, trying to dupe people into believing that Bhat and 7 are linked thru the divine; in addition, they have the largest number of lady boys; i am upset;
even the dollar sign doesn't appear next to a 1 or a 7 or a 9;
$ is actually next to a 4 (square/ground/earth), telling people exactly where they belong;
There used to be 2 lines through the dollar symbol when it was backed by sound money. Now, we only use one line to represent fiat money with no backing.
So, your meme should be updated to have 2 lines through the S.
I know, I sound pedantic as fuck right now. I'm channeling my inner DarthCoin :D
Is an old classic meme, I don't want to change it.
Best memes are the ones that are not perfect.
writing sats is easier than going to copy paste the symbol which doesnt exist on a keyboard...
The lightning bolt as a symbol is more organic for sats, ...
On MacOS, if you open the Character Viewer (same place you get emojis like ⚡️), and copy & paste the ₿ symbol into the search var, you'll see it, labelled "Bitcoin sign". Add it to Favorites, then its as easy to get to as ⚡️.
Other OSes probably have something similar.
writing sats is easier than going to copy paste the symbol which doesnt exist on a keyboard, the display with both is even more confusing/cluttered than just sats alone
Eventually the market will come to a consensus, but the symbol seems forced and more of a vanity project than an emergent UX improvement
The lightning bolt as a symbol is more organic for sats, the only objection is from Lightning disrespectors... in on-chain contexts the B fits better but should I think be only used with decimal values rather than sat values