Have to admit, I do like that symbol however I don't really see bitcoin needing a symbol at least not yet, may be in the near future.
Same here. We haven't even sorted out which one to use for bitcoin (as we're currently just using the one that happens to look "close enough" and is in unicode. But yeah, nice initiative.
Who's this 'we'? A quick google search shows that 99% are using the B-double-bar.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bitcoin&tbm=isch&qscrl=1
And that doesn't exist in Unicode, although in a few comprehensive and well implemented fonts, B͈̎ (0x0042, 0x030E , 0x0348) can work sort-of okay.
It's been 'locked in' as part of FontAwesome, which is something of a de-facto collection of useful 'dingbats' that haven't made it into unicode.
And even here on bitcointalk.org, putting BTC in square brackets in a post gives BTC
There might be some holdouts, but consensus was reached on the symbol for Bitcoin over a year ago.