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Topic: Change [btc] to comply with ISO standard (Read 1015 times)

legendary
Activity: 2618
Merit: 1007
March 08, 2013, 09:32:15 AM
#10
1) There is no ISO standard for Bitcoin.
2) If you want to use any potential standard, you can also use the proposed IANA currency registry, then you could write BTCX or just BTC.
3) I'd rather have this symbol being a "proper" B + stripes (which is anyways already a Thai Bhat symbol) than this bolded, weird monstrosity, no matter how you generate it in BB-code
legendary
Activity: 1372
Merit: 1002
March 07, 2013, 08:33:35 AM
#9
No!
If anything it's the ISO standard who must change to comply with MY standards.

And dude, XBT? Really? That's almost as bad as BitCoin... Roll Eyes
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1077
March 07, 2013, 07:57:39 AM
#8
It's separate span tags through - search engines may see it as X BTC.

tags have no spacing. A search engine that sees it as "X BTC" doesn't understand what means.
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
Weighted companion cube
March 07, 2013, 07:52:54 AM
#7
It's separate span tags through - search engines may see it as X BTC.
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1077
March 07, 2013, 07:52:07 AM
#6
BTC sounds better, ISO should adopt what people use not the other way around...

Agreed. I don't much care what ISO says.

For those discontent with the reception, here's a workaround:

Code:
[color=transparent]X[/color][btc]

This produces the text XBTC, which is not optimal but still better than BTC.

Does it?

XBTC
Yes, in fact, that is the goal. It looks like a regular bitcoin symbol, but to search engines is more like XBTC.
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
Weighted companion cube
March 07, 2013, 07:50:44 AM
#5
BTC sounds better, ISO should adopt what people use not the other way around...

Agreed. I don't much care what ISO says.

For those discontent with the reception, here's a workaround:

Code:
[color=transparent]X[/color][btc]

This produces the text XBTC, which is not optimal but still better than BTC.

Does it?

XBTC
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1077
March 04, 2013, 06:07:35 PM
#4
BTC sounds better, ISO should adopt what people use not the other way around...

Agreed. I don't much care what ISO says.

For those discontent with the reception, here's a workaround:

Code:
[color=transparent]X[/color][btc]

This produces the text XBTC, which is not optimal but still better than BTC.
administrator
Activity: 5222
Merit: 13032
March 03, 2013, 09:22:31 PM
#3
BTC sounds better, ISO should adopt what people use not the other way around...

Agreed. I don't much care what ISO says.
legendary
Activity: 924
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: 1pirata
March 03, 2013, 09:12:54 PM
#2
Currently, the moniker [btc] produces the following output: BTC.

When copied, one discovers that this is a BTC with a stylized 'B'. I propose this be replaced with the text 'XBT', to comply with the ISO standard and encourage usage of the new symbol. In addition, I propose the forum implements [xbt] as an alias for [btc].

BTC sounds better, ISO should adopt what people use not the other way around...

This is being discussed over here too https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/campaign-for-xbt-a-new-iso-currency-code-is-required-for-bitcoin-148229 and voted here http://www.rugatu.com/questions/4377/include-a-symbol-for-bitcoin-in-iso-standard, so is really necessary to open up new threads all over the place?
legendary
Activity: 1246
Merit: 1077
March 03, 2013, 09:04:08 PM
#1
Currently, the moniker [btc] produces the following output: BTC.

When copied, one discovers that this is a BTC with a stylized 'B'. I propose this be replaced with the text 'XBT', to comply with the ISO standard and encourage usage of the new symbol. In addition, I propose the forum implements [xbt] as an alias for [btc].
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