Bitcoin Logo Has Been Botched For Over A Decade And Practically No One Noticed
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Crypto bros have loads more to worry about than the inconsequential flaws of, say, a logo. Perhaps that’s why, for more than 12 years, people have been taking the Bitcoin symbol at face value, using and sharing it without batting an eyelid.
Well, it turns out that Bitcoin’s volatility—as with the nature of the crypto world—might have been foreshadowed in the tiny hairline cracks discovered in its branding. First uploaded by a bitcointalk.org member called bitboy on November 12, 2010, the blockchain interpretation of the dollar sign has been universally acknowledged as the icon for Bitcoin. However, its vector files, corroborated by Cointelegraph to be the original, have a few microscopic imperfections.
Holders and traders have, ironically, long harped the proverb, “when in doubt, zoom out,” alluding to the zooming out of cryptocurrency charts to see the big picture. In truth, they should have zoomed in, as one product designer who goes by the handle of @_Bosch_ on Twitter has pointed out that there’s a tiny orange line in the logo.
A small design detail that has stayed with many iterations of the original #bitcoin logo since its inception in 2010 pic.twitter.com/nYElwD2S6v
— Doc (@_Bosch_) February 9, 2023
Noooooooooooo!! My world is broken! pic.twitter.com/yMiX2aScxP
— Alain R. (@skyburial81) February 9, 2023
Cool. Did not know this, but we have it in our logo! pic.twitter.com/oRCggw98g4
— Satoshi Coffee Co. âš¡ï¸â˜•ï¸ (@satscoffee) February 9, 2023
Another user, @skyler_fs, has looked deeper and discovered that one of the symbol’s curvatures is angular.
Also this pic.twitter.com/Dq0oNRONI3
— Skyler (@skyler_fs) February 9, 2023
not a flaw, it's a feature
— 🦈xSevithx.eth🦈 (@xSevithx) February 10, 2023
Thanks now I have to sell all my bitcoin because I hate it
— Dylan Murray (@dylanhashmurray) February 9, 2023
Obviously, this little frustration won’t put a damper on the market. For those who can no longer unsee the Big Boo-Boo, though, worry not, as @_Bosch_ has fixed the logo and shared it for free use.
The proportions are also a bit off on the original logo. I made a more proportional logo, that also removed the mark shown above, if anyone wants to use ithttps://t.co/rIlLDKRt1Y
— Doc (@_Bosch_) February 9, 2023
[via Cointelegraph and @_Bosch_ / Twitter, images via various sources]
