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		Bitcoin sign rejected by the Unicode Consortium (2011) (unicode.org)
		3 points by tarball on June 7, 2014 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 3 comments

tarball on June 7, 2014 | [–]

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Action item for Rick McGowan: Respond to the author of L2/11-129 that the use of the bitcoin symbol in (running) text has not been demonstrated. There may also be IP issues because bitcoin.org is using the symbol as a logo.

bpierre on June 7, 2014 | | [–]

The submission document (PDF): http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11129-bitcoin.pdf

drakmail on June 7, 2014 | [–]

It was in 2011...

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