Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
by osullivj on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @09:31AM
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Indeed. Libra, solarii, denarii == pounds, shillings, pennies in the old pre 1970 British system. Sometimes referred to as LSD.
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A minor correction: librae, solidi, denarii. Solidi were so called, according to wikipedia, because (at first) they were solid gold.
Solidus would also be a decent name for a stablecoin!
Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
by Freak_NL on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:55PM
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> Solidus would also be a decent name for a stablecoin!
Its inevitable currency symbol is already part of the Unicode standard: /
https://unicode-table.com/en/002F/
An interesting related titbit: the Japanese currency sign for the Yen (¥) used to be encoded as the ASCII backslash (\) in the pre-Unicode era. Japanese fonts simply put the Yen-sign there.
And on the Japanese version of Windows, the yen symbol was the path separator, right? I vaguely remember this:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051014-20/?p=33...
Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
by tryptophan on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:25AM
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Fun fact, this is also why the british pound has the symbol £.