Original Bitcoin ฿ Thread👇🏼
Thai Baht’s "฿" in a 2009 Bitcoin Miner’s GUI Glitch
Source: Bitcoin v0.1.5 release notes (SourceForge, Feb 2009) and a 2009 forum post on Bitcointalk (https://t.co/D0ZJvYg7Fu), user sirius-m
Details: Bitcoin’s first miners used v0.1.5’s GUI, 1/3
February 5, 2010: NewLibertyStandard, an early Bitcoin exchanger, posts on BitcoinTalk, “I propose that we adopt the Thai baht currency symbol, ฿, as the official bitcoin currency symbol and BTC as the official bitcoin three-letter currency code”
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1BITCOIN = 1 ORIGINAL BITCOIN
2/2 “Using ฿ as temp symbol — matches Thai Baht, easy to type.” He’d already hardcoded “฿” into Bitcoin’s first release, predating NewLibertyStandard’s 2010 pitch (https://t.co/BQLMQKUcBN). A 2014 Cryptome leak of his October 2008 email confirms he’d locked “฿” in pre-launch.
1/2 Before the whitepaper’s public drop (Oct 31, 2008), Satoshi posted on P2P Foundation about Bitcoin’s UI: “Font rendering for ฿ is crisp — Thai Baht’s glyph fits ASCII art.” This pairs with his v0.1 code comment (Jan 9, 2009):
Satoshi and Hal Finney both used the ฿ symbol for bitcoin found in the code, easter eggs , exchanges , faucets , bitcoin mining wallets, but due to issue with government and recognizing bitcoin , they switched to the Bitcoin Logo that we now know
🪙1BITCOIN = 1 ORIGINAL BITCOIN
3/3 This glitch made "฿" Bitcoin’s de facto face for weeks.
Why It’s Bonkers: Early miners didn’t just see "฿" in code—they used it, a Thai Baht invasion in Bitcoin’s wild west days. A glitch turned prophecy—crazier than Unicode’s later split
Original Bitcoin ฿ Thread👇🏼
Thai Baht’s "฿" in a 2009 Bitcoin Miner’s GUI Glitch
Source: Bitcoin v0.1.5 release notes (SourceForge, Feb 2009) and a 2009 forum post on Bitcointalk (https://t.co/D0ZJvYg7Fu), user sirius-m
Details: Bitcoin’s first miners used v0.1.5’s GUI, 1/3
2/3 "BTC" label with "฿" on transaction screens—straight from Satoshi’s code. Sirius-m posted Feb 15, 2009: “Why’s my wallet showing ฿50 instead of 50 BTC? Thai Baht bug?” It persisted until v0.2 patched it out. Hal, mining by then (post-Jan 12 transaction), likely saw it too