Money isn’t always used for happy things.
Don’t you think that ship sailed long ago for Grin?
Money isn’t always used for happy things
communist propaganda
Cross posting my reply to you from the other thread for the curious reader who may miss it otherwise:
Though onerous and possibly overly complicated, I posted a poll on the grinmw twitter to get some more insight from the community. We have a lot more followers now (and so a lot more people with superficial opinions) so this poll is even more non-binding than the forum poll, but I am simply trying to get more data. Though it is a bikeshed moment, our choice will also have a very long-lasting impact and I think it deserves more discussion.
I just realized all the regular g spin-offs look pretty bad, they make me think of grams.
Any idea why ₲ was never proposed? Or maybe I missed it in the other huge thread?
EDIT: Maybe because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_guaraní
“ツ” is very unique symbol.
It’s first time that Japanese katakana character is used in famous crypto currency project.
I need some months to accustomed with it. ツ
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My thinking with Bitcoin was that, in time, we’re going to need a symbol for the lowly satoshi. I’ve been pushing for the katakana “shi” or “si” symbol for years now. That symbol is the “shi” in Satoshi. I advocated for it to be adopted as the Bitcoin satoshi symbol (https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3egrjk/satoshi_symbol/), stuck it on the blockchain (http://br549.mywebcommunity.org/why.htm), and made it the icon of the Satoshi Bitcoin Converter app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.satoshi.bitcoin.converter&hl=en_US).
So, when I saw the “shi” symbol leading on this Twitter poll https://twitter.com/grinMW/status/1087447097211842560 for Bitcoin 2.0, AKA Grin, I thought that was pretty awesome.
My suggestion…vote for the “shi” symbol and send a message. Yes, it’s not the most currency-like symbol in a traditional sense, but THAT’S THE POINT! Cryptocurrency is all about disruption. It’s about rocking the status quo and blazing a new and better path, rather than going with the more-well-trodden path simply because that is more acceptable and because that’s more akin to what we’re all used to. Why even bother?
Also, the “shi” symbol has two intrinsic and intuitive benefits…(1) it holds a left-to-right reading that implies an upward growth, like a double-winged bird soaring skyward, and (2), it signifies a grin! A sideways, clever, independent, and fun grin!
Symbols matter! Symbols, even one’s that initially seem different, eventually stick. And when they stick, they become the implication that they suggest.
This is not hard!
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It’s interesting idea. However, “シ(shi)” may not be good for currency symbol from Japanese view because “シ(shi)” can not be used for counting something.
On the other hand, ツ can be used for counting almost everything.The following site is good to grab the meaning of ツ.
“The Japanese counter 〜つ is probably the most useful counter you can learn. It just counts… “things.” And when we say “things,” we really mean it: it can count literally anything. That’s pretty broad, though, so let’s break it down into various categories.”
That’s why Japanese Grin supporters haven’t denied ツ to be used as Grin’s symbol as far as I know.
In addition to above opinion, Satoshi may not be Japanese, so I will not support your idea.
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And for anyone as clueless as I am,
つ (hiragana) = Tsu = ツ (katakana)
there you go my friend. Come visit.
ツ
that’s the currency symbol, eh?
Compared with symbol of bitcoin, dollar, euro, yen, etc, ツ that character looks wonky. I guess it is because that the left eye on ツ symbol is not connected to the right eye and the grinning mouth. That might give the sense of something “disintegrated”, weak (pure speculation on my part).
And also using a literal Nipponese character directly for a currency sounds really weird.
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I understand that ツ and シ look similar but Tsu (ツ）is the one that is being used right now, not Shi シ.
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Gotcha, you’re right.