Crypto Community petitions for a Bitcoin emoji ₿ for increased adoption

An anonymous person started a petition to get the Unicode Consortium, the official body that governs emojis, to add Bitcoin to the list of its currency symbols.

Petitioning to get a Bitcoin emoji available for all.

While many companies are hard at work trying to solve this problem and bring more awareness to the market, some believe the conversation about Bitcoin could spread with emojis.

An anonymous person started a Change.org petition to get Bitcoin its own emoji.

The petition, which is yet to take off, targets the Unicode Consortium, a California-based non-profit that created the modern emoji standard.

An emoji won't solve Bitcoin's problems but it's a good start.

"There is a lot of difference between inserting a character with alt codes and picking an emoji," one Redditor said, adding that having the Bitcoin character is a great sign, but that an emoji would be much easier to use.

Being able to add a full-color emoji of the world's largest cryptocurrency to platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram could give the whole industry more legitimacy.

The widespread use of emojis on messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and Viber could also help spread the word about Bitcoin.

As none of these emojis single-handedly improved the position of people living with disabilities, neither will the Bitcoin emoji make it a globally accepted currency.