Orange Coin Good, Number Go Up!
But can you name the exact Hue and Brightness of "The Orange Coin" ?
There are
16,777,216 possible colors in the RGB colorspace! And a large percent of those colors could be considered "orange".The original bitcoin logos were more yellow-gold and used many hues and shades to convey "shiny" reflective coin effect.
The 2010 revision we know and love is simpler and uses a bright orange color
#F8931A (according to the above image) I'm not claiming this is the "correct" color, just an instance of one JPEG I found.BOLT #7 allows the
node_announcement message to include 3 bytes for rgb_color. Every Lightning Network node can optionally broadcast a color.The top 10 most popular node colors on the lightning network are:
#3399FF(a light blue color used by default in LND)#000000(nodes who do not broadcast a color or broadcast the color "black")#68F442(a minty green color used by default in old versions of LND)#FF5000(a bright red-orange color used by default in Voltage.cloud nodes)#FF9900(an orange color)#0000FF(pure blue)#FF0000(pure red)#FFFF00(pure yellow)#EF820D(a brownish-orange color)#F8931A(the exact orange used in the 2010 bitcoin logo JPEG I measured above)
Other popular "orange" colors include:
#FFA500#F2A900#FFD700#FF6600#FF9F33
^ This color ranking is according to a lightning graph snapshot from a couple months ago
Each of these "orange" colors has at least a dozen or more LN nodes broadcasting them and self-identifying together under a common color (and creed?). What are the odds? There must be some sort of shelling point here.
Seems like the people are confused as to what color their money is and this is clearly hurting BTC perception in ways we cannot measure. Surely, this issue deserves a BIP and Core should do something to declare the official color and standardize it. Perhaps we can censor nodes who don't align with the correct color.
It remains to be seen what event will spark the color wars. But surely it will happen at a time when Bitcoiners can't think of anything more pointless to argue about.
What is the color of Bitcoin in your opinion, and why?
#FF9500