The Unicode Consortium today released version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard.This means that the code points required for new emoji support are now considered final, and stable to be included in updates from major vendors such as Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.TL;DR: The Unicode Standard now includes two dinosaurs, the Bitcoin symbol, and the long-awaited Colbert Emoji1.Here's the new emojis that are now possible with the release of Unicode 10.0: Above: Sample Images for new emojis.Regarding this update, Unicode states: "Unicode 10.0 adds 8,518 characters, for a total of 136,690 characters.These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 139 scripts, as well as 56 new emoji characters."The 56 code points needed to create the 239 new emojis in Emoji 5.0 make up a relatively tiny proportion of new characters in this release.Emoji sequences for flags, genders, and skin tones don't require additional code points.The 56 new emoji code points in Unicode 10.0: From the emojis above, only the base character for gender or skin tone is listed.

Flags for England, Scotland and Wales are part of Emoji 5.0 and not shown here as they don't require new code points.Above: The relationship between Unicode 10.0 and Emoji 5.0.The final emoji list for 2017 was announced in March; with the code points required for many of these now final.Vendors have had a few months notice on which emojis are final, and with the release of Unicode 10.0 are now clear to include support in any future software updates.2 Above: Emojipedia Sample Images for Emoji 5.0.Other popular additions include Giraffe, Dumpling, Mermaid, and people with a beard, hijab, and breastfeeding.Unicode 10.0 now adds support for the symbol for Bitcoin.3 This looks like a capital letter B with two vertical lines and has been granted this code point: Bitcoin symbol is a regular Unicode character, and not an emoji.4 Unicode 10 also adds support for "lesser-used languages and unique written requirements worldwide".Unicode 10.0 was been released June 20, 2017.The details are available now.

Vendor updates for these new emojis will vary, with most companies likely to include support in the second half of 2017.Google revealed their new emoji support in the first beta of Android O, and Twitter added support during the Unicode 10 beta period.Above: New emojis from Unicode 10 in Android O beta.Apple generally updates iOS with new emoji support in September-December each year.This often comes as part of a point update to a major iOS release, such as iOS 9.1 or iOS 10.2.Facebook is also testing new emoji support for some users.Sign up to our free newsletter Emoji Wrap for the latest emoji news, first.Emailed once each month, this is the best way to stay on top of what's happening in the world of emoji.Sign in to follow this 0 Started by idgaf, September 5, 2016 3 posts in this topic Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community.Register a new account Sign in Already have an account?

Sign In Now Sign in to follow this 0In Zimbabwe, our local exchange has been live for over 1 year and although the volume that was traded there has been constantly growing every month, the price of bitcoin there has almost always been around 10% higher than it is on other international exchanges.bitcoin legal uaeAnd many times its significantly more.What we’ve seen in African countries where we have bitcoin exchanges is that although the price of bitcoin all over Africa is higher than it is on international exchanges, it tends to be lower in markets where there is more liquidity and higher in markets where there is less liquidity.bitcoin avalon 3In South Africa where the volume of bitcoin that’s trade is high, it’s around 5% higher than it is on other international exchanges but in places like Nigeria and Angola, where the volume of bitcoin that’s traded there is low, the price of bitcoin there is gets as much as 100% higher.Liquidity alone does not influence price but liquidity and supply/demand together are what influence price movements.bitcoin xm

If we have a bitcoin supply but don’t have a demand for it, that does not force the price to go up.bitcoin geen geldThe price only goes up when the demand exceeds the supply.ethereum repWhen demand exceeds supply, the demand will start competing amongst itself to buy the limited amount of bitcoin that is available on the free market — one where the highest bidder is the one who walks away with the bitcoin.ethereum repIn such a market, only the people willing to buy bitcoin at higher prices are the ones who actually walk away with bitcoin.The price of bitcoin in Africa is only higher because we actually people willing to buy bitcoin at a premium.In the next section I talk about why.In Zimbabwe, you are very limited with what you can do with the money in your bank account because banks are restricting the use of debit/credit cards online and they are having trouble keeping their Nostro accounts liquid enough to allow their customers to do international transfers.

In fact, in Zimbabwe, even the government has trouble sending money outside the country sometimes.Nigeria is almost in a similar situation where capital controls imposed by the Central Bank are making it difficult for locals to do business across the border.** I couldn’t find an article online to cite the statement I just made on capital controls so if you know one ** , please mention it in the comments below and I’ll come back to update my article with that new information.And when you think about it: the price of bitcoin that is quoted on an exchange, is not the actual cost to acquire the bitcoin.If you were to include bank transfer costs when you make the usd deposit, the deposit fee the exchange charges and the transaction fees you’re charged when you actually buy bitcoin, the actual cost for buying bitcoin ends up being in the 3% — 6% range.The costs are even higher if you’re buying with a different currency than the one that’s supported on the exchange because your bank starts making money from you on the exchange rate they use to convert your money to that other currency.A few possible solutions are:It’s generally accepted that electricity cost in Africa is too expensive to use to mine cryptocurrency but that statement is just not true.

While it’s true that you could mine profitably in other parts of the world you can still mine profitably in places such as Zimbabwe.A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that if one were to purchase the latest Antminer, and use it to just mine bitcoin at just the peak electricity cost in Zimbabwe,they would make all their money back in less than 7 months.We already have people that are taking advantage of the negative transfer fee that exists when you send money to Africa — increasing that number could bring down the price of bitcoin in Africa.Remittance costs to Zimbabwe using companies like Western Union and Moneygram cost about 11% to 15% of the money being sent so if someone in the Diaspora is holding $100 and wants to send it to Zimbabwe, less than $90 actually gets to the recipient.But with the difference in the price of between Zimbabwe and the western countries, it’s now possible to get a negative transfer fee: that is, someone wants to send $100 but more than $100 will actually get to the recipient.This would make sense to them, firstly because they get negative transfer fees when they get paid from abroad.

Secondly because they get paid in a currency they easily convert to a local currency but can do so much with if they have to do business across the border for example.For the same reasons exporters would/should want to get paid in bitcoin, African companies/startups with offshore investors could/should also opt to have investment money sent in bitcoin.bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency and it was designed to solve a specific problem: allowing online payments to be sent directly from person to person without going through a financial institution.However, bitcoin is not the only player in the game.There are hundreds of other cryptocurrencies that work in a way that is similar to or was inspired by bitcoin and each of these cryptocurrencies solve a very specific problem for either a specific market or a multi-sided market.With a $9.7 billion market capitalisation and with over US 1.5 trillion worth of bitcoin traded on exchanges every day, bitcoin is still the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency.