Bitcoin sign rejected by the Unicode Consortium (2011)

Full citation:<p>Action item for Rick McGowan: Respond to the author of L2&#x2F;11-129 that the use of the bitcoin symbol in (running) text has not been demonstrated. There may also be IP issues because bitcoin.org is using the symbol as a logo.

The submission document (PDF): <a href="http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11129-bitcoin.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.unicode.org&#x2F;L2&#x2F;L2011&#x2F;11129-bitcoin.pdf</a>

It was in 2011...