Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey released the new Twitter emoji for Bitcoin (BTC) on February 2nd presented and the Unicode consortium hashtagged to also integrate a Bitcoin emoji into the Unicode character standard.
As Dorsey’s tweet shows, now whenever a Twitter user inserts Bitcoin as text or a BTC hashtag, an image with the corresponding symbol appears next to it.
Dorsey’s tweet with the Bitcoin emoji. Source: Twitter
Dorsey’s overt call to include the symbol in the Unicode text encoding standard was welcomed by the community. The co-founder of Lightning Labs, Elizabeth Stark, followed his call,
After Twitter added the emoji, it was already used by many many celebrities from the crypto sector tried outincluding Tron (TRX) founder and Bittorrent CEO Justin Sun.
The official accounts of the major crypto exchange Binance used the emoji as well, suggesting that the crypto community should participate in using the hashtag to get it fashionable on Twitter. BinanceCEO Changpeng Zhao, joined the proposal and tweeted: “Let’s do that.
Jack Dorsey’s crypto initiatives
This isn’t the first crypto push by the co-founder of Twitter, who is also the CEO and founder of Square, the crypto-friendly mobile payment service. In early December 2019, he also announced that Twitter and a dedicated team would develop a decentralized standard for social media.
Square recently received a patent for a technology that will enable a real-time system to exchange cryptocurrencies for fiat money. In November, the company issued a letter to its shareholders that the number of Bitcoin buyers in the app doubled in the third quarter of 2019, albeit with small profits.
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