Bitcoin, the eighth largest asset in the world, needs an emoji.

On March 13, Nexo launched the "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji" initiative, with more than 20 cryptocurrencies including BTC Inc, Bitget, Brink, Chainalysis, Hacken, and Nansen Institutions join the initiative. The initiative unites the global cryptocurrency community to add a Bitcoin emoji to digital keyboards and emphasizes that in today's society, cryptocurrency is not only a currency, but also a symbol of technology and culture.

This initiative is sponsored by the community The push, first with a 50-day petition on Change.org, was followed by a formal proposal to the Unicode Consortium in 2024, where an initiative to add Bitcoin emojis was rejected in 2020.

The initiative is also supported by several well-known projects, including Nexo, Brink, Bitget, Chainalysis, Polygon, Brave, BTC Inc, Hacken, CryptoQuant, Nansen, Unstoppable Domains, Liquidity, Mara, Busha, Zulu, Bware Labs, Meta4 Capital, Sift, MarketAcross, Bitcompare, Bithomp, Milkroad, Crypto Oasis, Cadenza, and more. Together they work to celebrate and advocate for Bitcoin’s inclusion in the digital lexicon through the universal language of emojis.

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New highs, halving is around the corner, Bitcoin’s milestone

In the past week During the period, Bitcoin exceeded the all-time high in November 2021 three times: on Tuesday, Friday and over the weekend, it exceeded the $69,100, $69,200 and $70,000 marks respectively. After Bitcoin's price topped $71,000, Bitcoin's market capitalization has jumped to $1.398 trillion, surpassing silver ($1.379 trillion) to become the eighth-largest asset in the world.

At the same time, according to BTC.com, the current block height is less than 40 days away from the Bitcoin halving time, which will occur every 210,000 blocks. Halving, so the next Bitcoin halving is expected to occur in April 2024 when the block height reaches 840,000, when the block reward will drop from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.

At such an important milestone At this time, Bitcoin emoji can express a lot of content as a cultural symbol.

Moji first originated in Japan in the 1990s. After the popularization of network communication technology, it became a basic element of communication between friends in the community. According to Unicode, 92% of internet users worldwide use emojis in digital communications.

From this perspective, Bitcoin emoji is more like a transmission of power and culture similar to Meme. Going back to the concept of MEME proposed by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene", we can understand how Bitcoin emoji has become a unit of information that is deeply rooted in culture through communication from person to person. The power of emoji lies in its ability to quickly touch people’s emotions and become a resonance. Just like MEME, it is passed from person to person and forms a cultural tacit understanding.

Petition progress

Deadline of writing, change website "Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji" The petition has 3,203 signatures and is gradually spreading in various online communities such as Reddit and Twitter. It is expected to reach 50,000 signatures soon.

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