Please don’t use ฿ in `keybase` output

[johndrinkwater]

I know there isn’t a unicode symbol for Bitcoin (yet), but re‐using the existing currency symbol for Baht is bad form. To me ¤ (the universal currency symbol) would be a reasonable placeholder, as I assume in future more cryptocoins may be added?

eg,

✔ "user" on github: …
✔ admin of the DNS zone for …
¤ bitcoin 145C…
¤ dogecoin 32FE…

[nxg]

I don't have an opinion about this one way or the other (nor do I have a stake), but I'll nonetheless note that there's plenty of precedent for multiple currencies using the same symbol. For example there are US/CAN/AUS/NZ $ (and others), and GBP and (now gone) Italian Lira both use/used the crossed 'L': £. They're distinguished by prefixes if the context is ambiguous.

[riplin]

The Bitcoin symbol was added to the unicode standard in November 2015.

See tweet from the author + more information: https://twitter.com/ken_lunde/status/661351862155669506

An updated font with the Bitcoin symbol was made by one of the Bitcoin developers: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3refb4/btc_symbol_added_to_droid_and_console_fonts/

[lucaswerkmeister]

It was accepted to be included in a future version. It’s not yet included in the latest version, Unicode 8.0 (code chart for currency symbols). I don’t think we’re going to see much font support (except for users who install alternative fonts themselves) before the next release, so I think it would be premature to use the character now, when most users will just see a box or another error character.

^{Note, to avoid confusion: I’m not in any way associated with Keybase, just some random guy.}