Cryptocurrency platform Nexo has teamed up with around 35 well-known organizations to petition for and secure a Bitcoin emoji.
The “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji” campaign hopes to garner 50,000 supporters globally, according to its release on April 2.
More than 10,000 people signed the petition in less than a week after it was released, and it was directed at the Unicode Consortium—the organization in charge of standardizing emojis on all platforms.
Brink, Bitget, Chainalysis, Kraken, Polygon, Brave, and BTC Inc. are some companies supporting the initiative.
Co-founder and executive chairman of Nexo Kosta Kantchev claims that because of Bitcoin’s popularity and market dominance, it must be represented by a “unified symbol on all keyboards.” Kantchev also mentioned:
“With 1.26 billion total Bitcoin addresses and 190,000+ professionals and tech pioneers pushing the global community forward, the Bitcoin Emoji is long overdue.”
In addition to being a symbolic move, the movement to create a Bitcoin emoji shows how united the cryptocurrency community is in its goal to promote Bitcoin’s acceptance across the globe.
The Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji campaign aims to gain enough traction to convince Unicode to take action. It draws inspiration from other emoji efforts, such as Taco Bell’s search for a taco emoji and Tinder’s support for an icon featuring an interracial marriage.
Eleonor Genova, the head of Nexo’s communications, described the campaign as “the heartbeat of a global movement, resonating with the dreams of a vast community” in an interview with Cointelegraph.
“Emojis, today’s digital lingua franca, play a critical role in how we communicate emotions, intentions, and concepts. For Bitcoin… an emoji would not only symbolize its legitimacy but also serve as an essential tool for education and mainstream acceptance.”
She emphasized that the project is a step toward democratizing Bitcoin’s presence, cultivating a more excellent knowledge and appreciation among the global audience, and contributing to the influence of the cryptocurrency on the world stage rather than merely calling for representation of the crypto community.
“While traditional currencies were quick to find their emoji counterparts, the cryptocurrency realm, with Bitcoin leading the charge, remains conspicuously absent from this digital form of expression.”
Bitcoin’s influence extends beyond cryptocurrency as it gains traction in popular culture, mainly since the US Securities and Exchange Commission authorized the nation’s first spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in January.
Imagine Bitcoin, Genova continued, “living across billions of screens worldwide as its very own emoji symbol—not just in wallets and exchanges, Crypto Twitter and crypto media.”
She called this the industry’s “collective responsibility” to advance and support every Bitcoin user.
“We’ve moved beyond the jargon of past bull runs and the fear of the past crypto winter; it’s time to recognize Bitcoin for what it truly is — a culture, not just a mere fleeting trend.”
The demand for an official emoji results from Bitcoin has recently reached an all-time high, and the community is getting ready for the cryptocurrency’s anticipated fourth halving event later this month.
