Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted the newly added Bitcoin (BTC) emoji on Feb. 2 and tagged Unicode, the consortium managing the chara
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted the newly added Bitcoin (BTC) emoji on Feb. 2 and tagged Unicode, the consortium managing the character normal, in an obvious suggestion to do the identical.
Dorsey’s tweet confirmed that, now, every time a Twitter person writes the Bitcoin or BTC hashtag, a picture displaying its image seems subsequent to it.
Dorsey’s tweet displaying the Bitcoin emoji. Supply: Twitter
Dorsey’s obvious suggestion that the image be included within the Unicode textual content encoding normal was appreciated by the neighborhood, with Lightning Labs co-founder Elizabeth Stark joining the request.
After Twitter added the emoji to its platform, many cryptocurrency personalities test-tweeted it, together with Tron (TRX) founder and Bittorrent CEO Justin Solar.
The official accounts of main cryptocurrency trade Binance used the emoji and advised that the cryptocurrency neighborhood ought to take part utilizing the hashtag to get it trending on Twitter. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao additionally retweeted the message stating, “Let’s do that.”
Jack Dorsey’s involvement with crypto
This isn’t the primary foray into crypto by Twitter’s co-founder, who can be the CEO and founding father of crypto-friendly cellular funds utility Square. In early December 2019, he additionally announced that Twitter has a devoted staff to develop a decentralized normal for social media.
Sq., alternatively, was just lately awarded a patent for a know-how that purportedly cracks a gift barrier in cryptocurrency service provider transactions by offering a real-time system that exchanges crypto for fiat cash. In November, the agency additionally issued a letter to shareholders displaying that Bitcoin consumers on the app doubled in Q3 2019, however introduced low income.