2016-02-15 18:32 GMT+01:00 Doug Ewell <[email protected]>: > The recent acceptance by UTC of BITCOIN SIGN, which is also often > perceived as a logo and also sometimes associated with a social > movement, might indicate greater willingness of UTC to encode the > copyleft symbol, even discounting the effects of the Emoji Revolution. >
The bitcoin is more than just a social movement, given that the currency was given an official status in international bank systems (first time in Germany I think), meaning that it is now legal to have accounts in that highly speculative foreign currency, and to trade it on legal change markets, and also list prices in that currency (for transactions outside domestic markets where prices in the national currency are still required in almost all countries), even if there's no physical currency and no bank of emission (replaced by an informal organisation and a group of private banks accepting or trading it).
