Emojis associated with Bitcoin BTC/USD and other cryptocurrencies have disappeared from the Elon Musk-owned social platform X (formerly Twitter), which is home to some of the largest active crypto communities.
What Happened: The removal of these emojis was not announced by X’s social media accounts or press pages as of Friday morning in Europe.
Early on Friday, crypto users on X noticed that the familiar emojis accompanying the "#bitcoin" hashtag were missing.
It was later discovered that emojis for hashtags such as #bnbchain and #cryptocom were also removed.
Additionally, the emoji for #MAGA, which previously featured Republican candidate Donald Trump, was no longer visible ahead of his appearance at the ongoing Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville.
Benzinga has reached out to X with request for comment.
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The bitcoin emojis were first introduced in 2020 when Jack Dorsey owned X, then known as Twitter.
Dorsey aimed to promote the bitcoin symbol to be included in Unicode, a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium that supports text in all digitizable writing systems.
Previously, X, as Twitter, charged companies up to $1 million to add a branded emoji or symbol to hashtags.
This was a strategy to help companies distinguish their branding from competitors and generate consumer buzz.
What’s Next: For those interested in the evolving landscape of digital assets, Benzinga’s Future of Digital Assets event on November 19th promises to provide further insights and discussions on such developments.
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