Thats a great idea! Anyone can think of a image representing independence?

Maybe a circled B, kind of like the favicon here?

http://unicode.org/pending/proposals.html#Interim_Solutions

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You cannot and should not just steal symbol from existing official currency of independent country.
I vote for omega 

It's only stealing if you're depriving the other person of their possession. It's sharing and sharing is caring. Seriously, who's it hurting? If anything, it promotes Thailand and the Thai baht. I certainly had never heard of the baht before I chose it as the symbol for bitcoins. Does a baby in Thailand go hungry every time I use the baht symbol to represent bitcoins? Is the Thailand government going to sue me for using "their" symbol? Bring it!

I propose something along these lines:


http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8840/bitcoinlogodraft.png          http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6006/bitcoinlogodraftii.png

A C (or stylized C) with something representing a bit inside.  At some point an actual fontist graphic designer would need to work on it, though.

My only concern with the slashed-8 is that at first glance it looks a lot like slash-S $.  S and 8 are only one small line apart, and putting the line down the middle makes them look even closer.  That, and an 8 would work better for Bytecoins than Bitcoins.

Apple might sue you for that 

Bytecoins could be bundles of 8 bitcoins .