Microsoft has decided to add a Bitcoin symbol to its flagship Office program, Excel. The company added it as a currency option. This is another sign that a major cryptocurrency is entering the mainstream and will be here for a long time. This is very good news for cryptocurrency fans. Such a solution is a psychological weapon, so to speak, in the popularization and adoption of BTC. Satoshi Nakamoto's currency symbol appears next to the fiat currencies of countries almost all over the world (including, for example, the euro or the dollar). This is an interesting decision when pitted against Microsoft founder Bill Gates' ambiguous stance towards BTC. In 2014, he said: "Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be [ed. in relation to the cost of handling traditional financial transactions]. Bitcoin is better than traditional currency because you don't have to be physically in the same place [red. no matter where in the world the sender and receiver are], and for larger transactions, traditional currency can be very inconvenient. However, the clients we are talking about now are not trying to remain anonymous and want to be recognized by each other. So bitcoin's technology could be key - giving us the opportunity to develop it or create a similar technology with a sufficient degree of attribution where people would feel comfortable enough in knowing that it has nothing to do with terrorism or any kind of money laundering." Four years later, however, he was attacking cryptocurrencies, but for a different reason: "The main feature of cryptocurrencies is their anonymity. I don't see that as a good thing. Instead, the good thing is the government's ability to invent money laundering, tax evasion and combat terrorist financing." Mainstream vs. BTC Google decided to take a similar step in February this year. Google. At that time, a Bitcoin symbol appeared on the Google keyboard on iOS mobile devices. Technology journalist Tim Copeland explained how to find BTC on the keyboard: "To access it [the symbol], make sure you're using Google's keyboard, not just Apple's default one, and hold down the dollar (or euro - note) symbol to display some of the world's most important currency symbols. The bitcoin symbol is on the left." In turn, during a roughly similar period, the giant lifted a ban on blockchain companies advertising on its services. Earlier - when the company made the ban - in a message to the media, Scott Spencer, Google's Director of Product Management, stated that: "We don't have a crystal ball to know where the future of cryptocurrencies is headed, but we've seen enough consumer harm or potential consumer harm [to know] that this is an area we want to approach with great caution." Tags Bill Gates bitcoin excel google microsoft Microsoft Office bitcoin symbol
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