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Social media platform X, previously Twitter, has seemingly discontinued its help for the Bitcoin emoji (often known as a hashmoji or hashflag). As of press time, when typing #bitcoin into X, no Bitcoin brand is generated.
Initially launched in 2020, the emoji appeared alongside the hashtag #Bitcoin, including an orange Bitcoin image to tweets. This characteristic turned an indicator of Bitcoin discussions on the platform, and its latest elimination has sparked a backlash from the crypto neighborhood.
In the meantime, the choice is unexpected, provided that Elon Musk, the social media platform’s proprietor, has an advanced relationship with Bitcoin. Tesla and SpaceX, two of his firms, maintain vital Bitcoin belongings, and he lately even used a profile image that includes blue laser eyes, a preferred image amongst Bitcoin supporters. Nonetheless, Tesla as soon as owned considerably extra Bitcoin however offered most of it in 2021 and 2022. Musk said that his help can be reignited when Bitcoin’s hash charge was supported by no less than 50% renewable vitality, a degree which it handed a number of years in the past with out Musk reverting his stance.
To date, neither X nor Musk has supplied any public touch upon this modification.
Nexo’s proposal for a Bitcoin Emoji
In the meantime, crypto lender Nexo has proposed including Bitcoin emojis to digital keyboards globally.
The agency has submitted a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit group managing the worldwide character customary.
Since 2017, Unicode has acknowledged the Bitcoin image as a foreign money signal. Nonetheless, it exists solely as a black-and-white glyph and never in its well-liked orange emoji. If the present request is permitted, the Bitcoin emoji can be accessible on all private computer systems and cell keyboards worldwide. The Consortium is anticipated to reply by Nov. 30.
Nexo mentioned 15,000 individuals signed its petition for the initiative, and it was partnered with a number of prime crypto companies, together with Kraken, Bitget, Chainalysis, Nansen, and others. It said that its objective is:
“Orange capsule for each smartphone on the market.”
Reality Protocol, a decentralized community targeted on AI and Internet 3.0, which additionally promotes the initiative, said that it was essential to have the “Bitcoin emoji on each keyboard.”
It added:
“Now that we collectively have submitted the proposal to Unicode, this can be perpetually etched within the historical past books for so long as we maintain speaking digitally.”