And Unicode also has an emoji variation selector U+FE0F, which requests that the preceding character should be rendered as an emoji. Thus, **Unicode already has a unique, backwards-compatible encoding for the Bitcoin emoji**:
₿﻿ (In the future, with a supporting font, you should see this as a Bitcoin emoji)
[U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf)
[U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE00.pdf)

It would be considered non-standard until sanctioned by Unicode, but fonts may already be able to implement this. All Unicode needs to do is include this sequence as part of the [standardized variation sequences](https://www.unicode.org/Public/8.0.0/ucd/StandardizedVariants.html).

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BlokchainB

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Bitcoin Deserves an Official Emoji

At least there is a unicode character since June 2017: ₿

[U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN](http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/DerivedAge.txt)