March 28, 2024

Bitcoin emoji added to Twitter, Jack Dorsey encourages Unicode to follow suit

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted a newly added Bitcoin emoji and tagged it with Unicode,a consortium that manages the dominant character encoding standard on the Internet.

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Dorsey probably encouraged the nonprofit organization to follow the example of the social network and add the bitcoin sign to the universal character set (UCS). Before the tag, he added “cc” - I am sending a copy.

The tweet gathered a lot of enthusiastic comments,and Lightning Labs head Elizabeth Stark supported Dorsey’s call. However, in the comments, she noticed that Unicode already provides two ways to encode a bitcoin symbol, for example, U + 20BF.

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Emoji first cryptocurrency began to appear whena set of hashtags #Bitcoin and #BTC, the symbol is displayed for a while, and then disappears. The addition of BTC emojis to Twitter provoked a stormy reaction from the bitcoin community.

Tweets with a new symbol marked the head of Binance Changpeng Zhao, founder of Tron Justin Sun and co-founder of Morgan Greek Digital Anthony Pompliano.

Bitcoin emoji added to Twitter, Jack Dorsey encourages Unicode to follow suit

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The leading cryptocurrency Telegram channel from India under the nickname Shalini noted that companies pay more than a million dollars for emojis under the Twitter brand, and this was free for bitcoin.

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Jack Dorsey is a famous supporter of the first cryptocurrency. He previously stated that Bitcoin will become the native currency of the Internet.

Recall, the head of Twitter not only supportsthe first cryptocurrency is a personal investment, but also through trading in the Cash App application of the payment company Square, which also gives grants to bitcoin developers, including anonymous ones.