13 Years Ago Satoshi Nakamoto Unveiled Bitcoin Icon; See how the BTC logo evolved
As the cryptocurrency industry marks 13 years since mysterious Bitcoin (BTC) founder Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled the historic “₿” icon and sign, it’s time to take a trip down memory lane and look at how many times the iconic Bitcoin logo changed before it finally received the form that is widely known and loved today.
In fact, Satoshi Nakamoto revealed his idea for the redesigned Bitcoin logo, which would replace its older iteration, showing off the future images he created in different sizes in a post published on Bitcointalk forum February 24, 2010, exactly 13 years to this date.
Simple beginning
As shown by Daily cryptothe redesigned logo was the replacement for the previous one, released in early 2009, which was also represented in the form of a gold-colored circle, but instead of the elaborate “₿” symbol, it showed the very simple letters ‘B’ and ‘C’ in the center .
New logo, more details
On 24 February 2010, the Bitcoin symbol became today’s letter ‘B’ with two vertical lines, after the proposal was loosely based on the Thai baht currency symbol (฿) in the discussion of the maiden cryptocurrency’s future symbol on Bitcointalk forum. The golden circle itself got a few more details.
Final design
In November 2010, Bitcoin received its final form recognized worldwide – the “₿” symbol, rendered in white and tilted clockwise by 14% within an orange circle. It was suggested by Bitcointalk user name bitboy, which took the symbol created by Satoshi and redesigned it using Visa (NYSE: V ) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA ) as inspiration.
Design flaw
Interestingly, social media users have recently attracted attention to a couple of minor imperfections in the widely accepted design of the Bitcoin icon, which have been present for over 12 years, although they are invisible to the naked eye.
As it happens, by zooming in on the original vector files posted by BitBoy, the image reveals a small orange line from the background seeping into the white ₿ symbol, as well as one of the curvatures of the symbol itself not being perfectly smooth, as Twitter users legs and Clouds pointed out.
That said, the necessity of creating new vectors that would fix these flaws can be argued, as the disclosure itself does not in any way affect the operation of the flagship decentralized finance (DeFi) unless the crypto community shows interest in solving the problem. microscopic design problem.
