Quote from: netrin

That is a good point and I agree. I strongly discourage the Baht symbol. It just present ignorance or apathy and Thailand is a country where bitcoin could really take off.

I completely agree with you here. Commandeering the baht symol is lazy and as bitcoin desires to be used globally, I think being able to differentiate it from the baht is important. I'm not totally against using the baht symbol in place of a bitcoin symbol unofficially until unicode accepts a dedicated bitcoin symbol and this is becoming common, but I would prefer if people for now only delineated bitcoins using the currency code ( ISO 4217) 'BTC'. From the list of proposed unicode characters I also don't mind 'there does not exist' and one other I found 'does not contain as member' but I do think bitcoin needs its own symbol.

Quote from: netrin

That may be true. I do loath it. I don't know if you like it (certainly you've invested time in it), but why follow the herd? You're clearly talented. TiagoTiago proposed a brilliant idea. Maybe if you grok its innovation, you can give it some of your typographic expertise..

I don't hate it. It is the most obvious choice and popular consensus seems to have dictated that something resembling a 'B' with currency slashes be the symbol. I do like some of the other proposals but none of them gained traction. If I created or worked on one of the other symbols, I doubt it would gain any traction either. I also like my solution to the problems the current symbols have.

Quote from: netrin

Is that your proposal? I don't recall seeing the double slash any other way. I present http://bitcoin.org/

If you look closely at that symbol, you will notice that the character B, having one vertical stroke already, gets introduced to two more vertical slashes. While this work visually, using the typeface used as two of three vertical lines in the character share half a space, but if you attempt to write this symbol with a pen manually, you will notice that the space is cramped and it takes time to write, two slashes will become one slash, and soon everyone is writing it as the baht. Other typefaces will run into difficulty trying to interpret it and displaying it on a small scale. With my slight adjustment, and specs, it is clear that only two vertical strokes are to be used like the baht but it still has its own independant identity.

Quote from: netrin

That was not immediately apparent to me, but I do like the idea of a hash symbol, which has very significant meaning to bitcoin value/stability/security. Perhaps if you are committed to the double slashed B that you emphasize the hash symbolism.

I don't think it needs to emphasized any more than it is already apparent. It acts as a good story as to why character looks the way it does and what idea it grew from. A lot of people don't notice the arrow in the Fedex logo as obvious as it is. My vertical lines are set at a diagonal like most # signs but I'm not against them being styled as true verticals as some typefaces might dictate that they need to be.

Quote from: netrin

Please excuse me. It is only that anything discussed frequently with intensity that results in little change tends to remind me of wanking off. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

Ha ha!