Social media platform X, previously Twitter, has seemingly discontinued its help for the Bitcoin emoji (also called 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 grew to become a trademark of Bitcoin discussions on the platform, and its latest removing has sparked a backlash from the crypto neighborhood.
In the meantime, the choice is unexpected, on condition that Elon Musk, the social media platform’s proprietor, has an advanced relationship with Bitcoin. Tesla and SpaceX, two of his firms, maintain important Bitcoin belongings, and he not too long ago even used a profile image that includes blue laser eyes, a well-liked image amongst Bitcoin supporters. Nevertheless, 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 fee was supported by not less than 50% renewable vitality, a stage which it handed a number of years in the past with out Musk reverting his stance.
To this point, 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 forex signal. Nevertheless, it exists solely as a black-and-white glyph and never in its in style orange emoji. If the present request is accepted, the Bitcoin emoji will probably be accessible on all private computer systems and cell keyboards worldwide. The Consortium is predicted to reply by Nov. 30.
Nexo stated 15,000 individuals signed its petition for the initiative, and it was partnered with a number of high crypto companies, together with Kraken, Bitget, Chainalysis, Nansen, and others. It said that its objective is:
“Orange capsule for each smartphone on the market.”
Truth 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 will probably be endlessly etched within the historical past books for so long as we hold speaking digitally.”