Twitter removes Bitcoin and MAGA emojis from crypto-related hashtags at Bitcoin 2024 conference, causing confusion.

Elon Musk's social media platform X (Twitter) removed Bitcoin and MAGA emojis from hashtags related to cryptocurrencies without prior announcement, causing confusion in the crypto community. The action took place during the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville. While the reason behind the change remains unclear, X co-founder Jack Dorsey had introduced the Bitcoin emoji in 2020 to promote its inclusion in the Unicode Consortium's text encoding standard.

July 26, 2024
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