The Original Bitcoin Symbol

Original Bitcoin ($₿) is a tribute to the earliest visual identity of Bitcoin, referencing the seldom-acknowledged first iteration of the Bitcoin symbol: a capital "B" with a single vertical stroke through it.

Before the now-standard double-struck ₿ was adopted and encoded into Unicode (U+20BF), the original symbol mirrored the Thai baht (฿) and was used informally by Satoshi Nakamoto and early forum contributors around 2009–2010.

This primitive design reflected Bitcoin's early grassroots development and unpolished aesthetic—a symbol drawn manually in early mockups and embedded into rudimentary GUIs before becoming a global economic icon.

$₿ captures that raw, foundational energy of cypherpunk rebellion, cryptographic purity, and the wild west of digital value before corporate standardization took over.