A Suggestion For The Sats Symbol

This is an sentiment editorial by Arman The Parman, a Bitcoin pedagogue passionate astir privacy.

Bitcoiners are having occupation settling connected a unanimous prime for the sats symbol. I person seen respective suggestions with nary evident winner.

I judge I person discovered a awesome that we mightiness each hold connected — it seems evident successful hindsight. But hold until you perceive the reasoning and symbolism earlier deciding. Here's the awesome I americium proposing:

The awesome is made with a reverse "S" which is similar penning a "2" (but not quite), and a vertical strikethrough, which is similar a "1." The fig 2 and the 1 unneurotic besides marque 21, referencing the 21 cardinal bitcoin hard proviso cap.

The sat symbol. It's poetically beauteous successful my opinion.

What's more, it's a vertically-reversed dollar sign, which is representing the anti-dollar, oregon the dollar-killer. Alternatively, it’s a horizontally-reversed dollar motion (it can’t beryllium both, different it would extremity up flipping backmost to the dollar sign).

One of the astir important things astir the awesome is that there’s a reasonable accidental that astir radical volition people hold to usage it. There has been a precise speedy and overwhelmingly affirmative effect to a tweet announcing the symbol, posted nether my nationalist Twitter account.

This was a emblematic response:

And others:

Another Twitterer commented that the reverse “S” and strikethrough tin correspond the archetypal and past letters of “Satoshi,” which was interesting. Others person said that it contains elements of Knut Svanholm’s “infinity” divided by 21 cardinal meme:

An existent “2” was suggested alternatively of an “S” but that tin look a small messy erstwhile written successful beforehand of existent numbers, and is improbable to get arsenic overmuch enactment arsenic I’ve witnessed with the inverted dollar sign. It besides doesn’t look pleasing to my eye:

To me, it looks amended with an “S”:

We've already agreed connected 21 cardinal bitcoin, oregon 2.1 quadrillion satoshis — anchoring this Schelling constituent to a caller 1 I deliberation has a large accidental of success.

Someone other suggested it looks similar an “L2” — fitting due to the fact that sats are the default portion connected the superior Layer 2 protocol, the Lightning Network.

It’s besides important to see the easiness and velocity of penning this symbol. It lone takes 2 pen strokes. You lone request to assistance the pen once. The much decorative the symbol, the much annoying it is to constitute it by hand, and then, it volition conscionable get abbreviated.

I emotion the thought of reinforcing the 21 cardinal headdress “brain virus” each clip idiosyncratic writes the sats symbol. At slightest for me, it would bring large restitution to constitute it each and each time.

No substance which awesome is your favorite, having everyone hold has been portion of the problem. Because determination are truthful galore reasons that this is simply a bully symbol, I deliberation there’s a bully accidental that we mightiness settee connected this one.

This is simply a impermanent station by Arman The Parman. Opinions expressed are wholly their ain and bash not needfully bespeak those of BTC Inc oregon Bitcoin Magazine.