Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)

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35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji".

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fighting for bitcoin to get an emoji is stupid, but fighting against it might be even stupider. surely there are more important things to spend your time and energy on. it's a fucking emoji. who cares?

normalizing scams, by laundering their image via standards organizations, pollutes our communications environment. Both an emoji and a petition are symbolic - and our symbols are in fact important.

Bitcoin isn't a scam. All non-bitcoin cryptocurrencies are scams.

People often hear about stuff like coins that are pre-mined, or proof-of-stake and the schemes and scans that come out of those, and immediately associate Bitcoin with the same thing.

That is also not 100% true. There are several altcoins with fantastic utility. Monero and Ethereum come to mind.

Exactly. Most cryptocurrencies are scams, but a handful are fantastic. Ethereum is cool for being proof-of-stake (so no high-energy mining), and Monero is cool for being super privacy-oriented. There are a handful more, but honestly, if you stick with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero, you'll be fine.

That's pretty much exactly my thought. I hold a very very small amount in Polygon, but only in order to pay the gas fees for the Polygon network. So I never have more than a few US dollars worth in it at a time.

Yeah, I basically just do Monero, and I use it as a spend account and use it anywhere it's accepted. I don't invest in any cryptocurrencies because I don't think cryptocurrencies have positive expected return (it's all hype), so I keep the amount of crypto I have small.

Ethereum has scam characteristics though. The creator Vitalik gave himself time to mine it alone before giving public access. He secured for himself quite a nice stash

That's true. I suspect the application programming is the only reason that it actually took off.

I wouldn't argue with that. I was mostly generalizing.

Of course bitcoin is a scam. It's a "currency" you can't spend anywhere. It's only purpose is a pump and dump scheme for early adopters.

It’s a “currency” you can’t spend anywhere.

You could've at least pretended to have done some basic research...

It's a "currency" you can't spend anywhere

Lol

It's only purpose is a pump and dump scheme for early adopters.

This is exactly what many alt-coins are but Bitcoin is decidedly not.

You're confusing "easy to mine" with "early adopter scam".

millions of people who use emojis would constantly see it. It would slowly start to feel more familiar to them and increase its acceptance. If that works, others would try to do the same and we would have every and any company put their logos in. If it doesnt then it doesnt matter that much, but i dont want to risk yet another avenue for corporations to worm into peoples minds.

Personally i dont care about emojis at all but i do care about general mentalspace.