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2026-06-04 22:13:53 UTC

daniel on Nostr: It’s definitely a bear market when the dreaded sats symbol debate kicks up again. ...

It’s definitely a bear market when the dreaded sats symbol debate kicks up again.
Beyond this case-pair intuition, using β to represent sats has two big advantages over all the other proposals I've seen:

- Availability: β has shipped in Unicode since 1.0.0 in 1991. It renders in essentially every general-purpose font (including monospace), and is reachable through standard input methods. No new glyph design or OS support needed.

- No collissions: Doesn't collide with the principal symbol of any active national currency.