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Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by twic on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:39AM (#20214284)
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!

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Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by Freak_NL on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:55PM (#20216946)
> 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.

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Re:Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra by twic on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:43PM (#20219196)
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...

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