Currency Symbol [ ɠ / ꞡ / ǥ / other ] #BS

I’m a huge fan of this one for a few reasons:

  1. It is both serious, and yet also in line with the playful wizard world themes that Grin is attributed with.
  2. It is in unicode 4.1’s phonetic extension which is pretty common for rendering in different devices and browsers.
  3. It is not technically a separate letter or symbol, but a stylized font for the letter “G”. Therefore it has no existing concept or sound associated with it.
  4. There are very few results (~40,000) for the symbol on Google - most of them are unicode listing sites, meaning it would be very easy to associate this symbol with the Grin brand.
  5. It’s capitalized version, is simply the same symbol but larger. Unlike other cryptos that have the debate between their lowercase and uppercase versions of the letter, this one would be consistent.

Overall, it’s a very compelling case for ᵹ.

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