The bitcoin symbol was added to unicode in June 2017 with the release of version 10.0. The code point assigned to the bitcoin symbol is U+20BF (₿). It was categorized as a currency symbol.
Here: 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".
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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.
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. [...]
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. [...]
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: