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As it became known, the bitcoin symbol is not included in the Unicode standard, despite reports of the negotiations published last fall. Last October, bitcoin enthusiast Ken Shirriff suggested as Unicode bitcoin classical Latin the letter V with two vertical lines passing through it. One month later, an employee of Adobe and Unicode representative Ken Lund published in a Twitter message that the suggestion Sherrif accepted. Technically this meant that the bitcoin has officially reserved a private Unicode character, and that it will be used in the network by a set of characters U+20BF. U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN was just accepted at #UTC145, to be included in a future version of the standard → https://t.co/B9hWLds9HK @kenshirriff — Ken Lunde (小林剣) (@ken_lunde) November 3, 2015 However, the latest version of Unicode (Version 9.0) was released without this symbol. "In 9.0 was added to 7500 characters. This includes six new scripts and 72 new Emoji symbol" — said representatives of the company. Note that this was not the first attempt to include the bitcoin symbol in Unicode. In March 2011 the application was filed, bitcoin enthusiast Sander van Golovenok, but it was declined. Today, as a symbol of bitcoin uses a Latin alphabet letter ‘Ƀ’. Before Lund was offered a special symbol, such a designation was the most likely candidate for inclusion in Unicode. Perhaps it will be added next year