4 million square merchants can now easily accept bitcoin.
bitcoin is the best money.
absolutely massive. 🎯
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Tracked. Logged. And taxed.
Hard pass with recent court rulings on cases recently.
Average square user has no clue what you’re talking about, just saying.
Bitcoin culture is so down the drain that critical OG voices have been drowned out already.
Bitcoin mainstream takes:
"ETFs the biggest thing in all of BTC history"
"KYC merchant adoption is the biggest thing in all of BTC history."
Fuck you guys. Satoshi called it a "p2p ecash systems without going through third parties".
The first thing you do is bringing in the third parties. You are doing it ALL wrong striking one deal with the devil after another.
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4 million merchants who have staff! Today ~20+ million people have to learn what bitcoin is!
Bitcoin is money. Use it for SOV and MOE.
This is how we win.
Fantastic! I just wish bitcoin was legal tender so you dont have to worry about using bitcoin in a store will come back and bite you in the ass in future somehow.
Awesome. Do we have a timeline for the UK nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m ? FYI nostr:npub1864jglrrhv6alguwql9pqtmd5296nww5dpcewapmmcazk8vq4mks0tt2tq nostr:npub1cn670f663n3ks02jnnlsvd5y88zjnefy8343ykaxs7y3nzzketrsrjwt8a
RoW next year.
UK prbly back of queue! Although quite a few #square merchants here.
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When Canada
Swiss Bitcoin Pay does the same for European countries. Straightforward to setup.
Swiss Bitcoin Pay - Accept Bitcoin in your Business https://share.google/ospZwVKe9v28ndSqN
Now the 0.001% have an option to use their internet money
I mean convenience and mainstream use is upon us
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Now we need governments to remove frictions like capital gains tax events when I use BTC to buy a $3 coffee with 2000 sats
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Best news I have seen in 2025
Real adoption of bitcoin as money whithouth kyc (for the buyer)
This will push adoption of normies (Lots of them will be easily converted to other no KYC wallets when you tell them to buy withouth anyone knowing, like with cash)
easily one of the best efforts for bitcoin adoption. huge thanks to jack and the whole square team. absolutely massive.
They didnt explicitly mention about bitcoin payment rails for vendors on last earnings call .. not sure if the test actually turn into a market reality ... not a force but a ray of hope may be . .
If I am a customer and square doesn't offer me the ability to pay in bitcoin, how can the merchant turn it on? If they want to enable it, I want to help them.
When Canada?!
Also, do we know how many merchants use it in Canada?
Where can I see the merchants who have this switched on?
How can one receive Bitcoin in USD? Asking for a friend. 😋
I believe if they select that option. They probably wrote some code that right Then, and there, Cash App buys the Bitcoin and gives the merchant the dollars.
Nice! I’ve been very impressed with Block lately.
on the same day square launches bitcoin payments, coinbase launches ICOs
the universe makes no mistakes
I never paid attention to the terminal brand when I shop, now I need to, and I also need to memorize the square logo
it’s a tough one to remember
How can you help merchants to become more sovereign over time. What is your strategy?
You really don't want them to plug into your state licenced company long term if your motives are aligned with freedom over surveillance and control. You want them to give choice running their own open source terminals.
U not aloud question jack! he rich n pay devs! he new 2 bitcoin n here 2 save! he invent bloosky n nostr n now he do 100000000:1 split so evey1 be rich hole-coiner! ony ever be 2.1 quadilon bitcoin! kyc no big deel. No verify, trust!
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Our SimpleX, reminding you now...our quickie...where are you?
is it all merchants or only the ones who opt in for bitcoin payments?
It's sort of like a triangle, but it has one extra corner...
Reminder to Square sellers: we offer a Bitcoin rewards & loyalty program integration🙂
It's the most seamless way to reward Bitcoin enthusiasts while also introducing your everyday customer to Bitcoin.
Plus, acquire and retain more customers to grow your business.
https://oshi.tech/blog/how-to-connect-your-square-point-of-sale-to-oshi
Is this without KYC?
You can pay without kyc. I’d assume any business using a square terminal is KYC’d
This is not his sovereignty looks like. It's Bitcoin fed back into the machine.
But then maybe it's just a path that takes many generations.
This doesn't help one bit with systemic theft (tax). It funds the war and surveillance machine against the people.
What is so hard about a sef-hosted BTCPayServer where the merchant actually is in charge of his own money aka sovereignty?
Why are people so fond of giving away the power and leverage they have over their own lives?
LFG 🔥🔥🔥
By this move Square singlehandedly lowers the inflation rate by 3% to millions of merchants and customers. Wow!
Now it's your turn, bitcoiners. Normalize bitcoin payments. Let those merchants dig new rabbit holes.
I wonder why all these merchants waited for a payment processor to add BTC as payment method?
All these 16 years they never read the Bitcoin whitepaper?
True. I also think for "hyperbitcoinization" the adoption must come from the merchant side (demanding/preferring being paid in Bitcoin) but let's see.
Yes you have a point. Any retailer could have set up a bitcoin payment method. Most apps make it easy to convert dollars to bitcoin.
Maybe people are concerned about the law. The governemtn would tax the sale and tax if you convert bitcoin to dollars.
People are such pussies nowadays...
some people get comfortable to what is familiar to them or if someone can do it on their behalf. 😬
bridges
I went to a merchant today and he didn’t even know about it but it was on and I showed him how to let me pay in bitcoin. Is it on for merchants by default?
I appreciate both Jack & Square for this great launch and also DarthCoin for his continuous shaming of anything that's not self custody (from his sovereign mud house no less).
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I am not shaming Square. Square did a great move from their company's POV. Nothing against that. Yes, it helps a lot for more bitcoin adoption.
My question was about the merchants in particular and also about their users. All these years merchants and bitcoiners never made any move to help those merchants to accept BTC? You can't say that we do not have plenty of solutions for them.
Why they need to wait for Square to add BTC?
I think this is more of lack of push of education from bitcoiners side, because let's be honest, most of US bitcoiners prefer ETFs and VISA cards loaded with sats than go to merchants and push them to use BTC.
I would like to see now all those bitcoiners that until now were using VISA cards, how they spend sats on these Square merchants that decide to keep the sats.
Your Bitcoiner friends are LARPERs. Never in their lives have they learned to act against "authority". People that joined BTC post 2016 are herd followers. They claim to be maxis when IRL they are pussies.
Many merchants and entrepreneurs are not any different. They are just the lap dogs of government running state licenced companies as if that's necessary to conduct business in a consensual way.
Regulation around the world is making private crypto transactions illegal. For transparent crypto transactions they have super low fiat limits without KYC.
Soon you will only be able to use crypto on the black market.
Monero people are preparing for that scenario, while Bitcoin LARPERs still celebrate ETFs and KYC adoption.
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We thought it was the tech, so we tried to teach them.
Then we made the tech easier & tried to show them.
And it got easier, so much easier.
Seems what they really didn't want was getting stuck with magic internet money. You can't force people to understand & value something.
Perhaps make it even easier & more convenient then allow them to convert it to slave tokens.
People want to focus on their business & are tied up with a whole bunch of fiat bullshit. Less fees with minimal additional effort or complexity? - yeah merchants are interested in that.
This is good for everyone except Visa.
Americans won’t start spending until IRS changes its rules. Most people wanna stay tax-compliant.
How many times we have to tell to muricans that IRS is a scam?
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Yes! This!
Hey Jack why the ₿ for sats?
Sorry I just saw you answered that question in another note. Thx! Onward. 👍
Why would a business with existing infrastructure for payment systems that have existed for 20+ years continue to use their currently existing payment infrastructure as a settlement method for their vast majority of customers instead of building a brand new infrastructure for a small minority of customers 🤔?
Love it, or hate it but the square update is probably the best way to make it friendly for businesses to accept Bitcoin.
I am not talking about what Square did. From their POV is perfectly fine and is a good thing.
But my question is about the merchants.
Complacency in using an old fiat system is not an excuse.
Most Merchants don't even understand how Bitcoin works, and they probably don't even understand how square terminals work either but are forced to learn since the alternative was not getting any money.
Bitcoin has been around since 2009 but only recently has started becoming usable for most real world stores.
You need to realize most people aren't you Darth, most people aren't earning $100,000+/year as a dev with 120+ IQs, most business are ran by people that most of their funds disappear as soon as they come in, and probably have 100 to 110 IQs.
Most merchants are probably well into their 50s, and 60s, and have been living off of fiat their whole lives.
If you want to help Bitcoin stop thinking like a 20 year old white dude, and start thinking like a Boomer, or an African, and see what would change that mindset.
People will only build the infrastructure once they see the utility for it, and Square is showing, and teaching people that Bitcoin has utility by meeting them where they're at because the alternative is no adoption.
I hate fiat rails as much as you do too but I use Flexa, and other fiat mechanisms too for Bitcoin sometimes because businesses won't fully commit unless they see the investment being worth it.
And yes Bitcoin infrastructure is cheaper, and easier but unfortunately right now most businesses have to operate on fiat.
Square changes the game though, it simplifies the process, and let's the two currencies compete, and overtime businesses will give preferential treatment to Bitcoin once they see the benefit to them.
>If you want to help Bitcoin stop thinking like a 20 year old white dude
That sounds like a bitter, gay comment...!!
What does it matter if he thinks like a white person or a black person?
Most, if not all of the earliest adopters of Bitcoin have been disproportionately high earners 110+ IQ 20 to 30 year old libertarian white men in a western country.
If Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency users want adoption we need to start thinking like 60 year old Black women because otherwise Bitcoin/Crypto isn't going anywhere.
I thought Bitcoin was about freedom and decentralization, not about filling social quotas. If you continue with that thinking, we'll have to change the Bitcoin logo from orange to black or pink.
Yeah.. or they could start thinking like libertarian men.
It's easier for a higher frequency creature to move to a lower level than for a lower frequency creature to increase its frequency.
We need to lower our frequency to drag people up with us.
It's all about energy input/output, buy nodes, and hardware wallets for people, gift them Bitcoin, give them lightning liquidity, because they won't do it themselves.
Bitcoin grows by replication rather than self-starters since the fiat mindset has destroyed the self-sufficiency/self-starting mechanism in people.
Bitcoiners need to be the primer/fuel that starts the fire with incentives because no one in their right fiat mind is going to spend $10,000+ just to run a slightly more better money system when the current money systems works just fine, only downside is inflation but normies don't care since they don't understand inflation, they just see it as needing more money.
You blame the "early adopters" when all these early adopters were screaming for the last 16 years about Bitcoin and were ignored.
If you want to cry, cry, but don't blame me for your past mistakes.
Now you cry because Saylors are grabbing the remaining BTC...
I'm just saying for something that's supposed to free the masses from fiat slavery it's done sure of a hell of a job at ensuring the fiat slavery status quo continues on.
The underdogs didn't win from Bitcoin/Crypto.
The people who were already on top have won.
Bitcoin was supposed to level the playing field, and remove banking barriers, and increase financial access but instead has become a CBDC-lite with Bitcoin being KYC'd at every point.
Want to buy a miner, KYC'd.
Want to join a pool, KYC'd.
Want to use a Wallet, KYC'd.
Want to Use Lightning, KYC'd.
Want to Off sell for fiat, KYC'd.
And yes, I know use BitAxe Solo Miners with a Foss Wallet, Buy KYC-Free P2P, and Use Zeus, etc., etc. but people aren't going to use the principled way, since it's implementation costs are higher.
Convenience ALWAYS WINS!
It's just easy to snap a picture of your ID than spend 10+ hours fiddling around with Linux, and potentially losing your funds.
And I'm saying Bitcoin could work but we need to develop tools with the normies in mind.
The normies are old low income ethnic minority women, all of us using Bitcoin today we're the outliers, or to use communist terms the bourgeoisie, we're not the proletariat in relative to everyone else.
The classic "Bitcoin failed because people don't use it the way I want" argument.
Brother, Bitcoin didn't promise to make you coffee or teach you how to use Linux. It promised freedom, and freedom includes people choosing convenience if they want.
KYC? Yes, the system tries to get its claws in, as always. But the code is still there, free, resilient, running 24/7—nothing has changed.
It's not Bitcoin's fault that most people prefer convenience over sovereignty.
So no, Bitcoin didn't fail.
It just proved that the biggest enemy of freedom isn't the system... it's laziness.
Dude, the masses are not interested, the masses don't understand and the masses don't care, and that's why they are the masses.
Plenty of us have been preaching the gospel for almost 20 years now. 9.99 out of 10 times people won't listen and they won't go educate themselves, they will look around and copy the response of the people around them.
We're outliers. I don't say it in an arrogant way. I'm just saying, when you accept that you think differently and therefore act differently and therefore will get different results, you will understand: this is real fairness, cause and effect.
The network is open to all. It's not my fault that almost no one even wants to try to understand why it exists and what it's for.
That's their loss, and it was their free choice, as it was mine to do the opposite.
Ah, yes, of course… because according to the “experts,” to understand Bitcoin you have to be a white man with an IQ of 110, live in a Western country, and eat neoliberalism for breakfast. I arrived late, I'm neither a genius nor a millionaire, but at least I understood something: Bitcoin doesn't ask for pedigree, only that you understand freedom… and that you stop crying over useless statistics.
This is good
It isn't an excuse, but most people don't try to look for better opportunities, even the semi-entrepreneurial ones who form small businesses, until it becomes so obvious that they'll die without it that they finally get motivated. Most people stay ignorant.
The "Bitcoiners" you get through that are weak and lazy. They fight more for the system then they fight against it. Tracking. Logging. Taxing.
Soveriegnity is something most people are not interested in. They came here to die without standing their ground.
Choose your allies wisely is all I can say as someone who is aligned probably 95% with you.
With the single exception that I choose Bitcoin and Monero together, partially because I can not stand the fools that have amassed themselves around Bitcoin that never will use it in a private and self-custodial way.
But maybe that's just Darwinism at work.
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When everyone is talking about Square enabling merchants to accept Bitcoin but you live in the EU.
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I remember the first time I accepted a payment on my phone using Square back in 2011-12 It felt huge then, and even my first customer was impressed by the simplicity. Now, being able to accept Bitcoin feels profoundly more important than accepting cards back in the day. Merchants operate on tight margins and pos processing fee are painful.
1. Talk to your local/small businesses about accepting Bitcoin on Square.
2. Post their business on
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3. Tell your neighbors/community.
4. Spend your Bitcoin at your local/small business.
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So excited to be accepting Bitcoin at our butcher shop in Fresno, CA
Let's go!!! 🔥
Interesting, I'm going to have to remember that next time I'm running errands in the big city!
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Infrastructure to facilitate merchant acceptance is way more interesting than nation state bitcoin reserves, imo.
A big step for merchants, and an astronomical step for freedom.
I accept bitcoin! Goodpouch.net
Can you as a customer just ask any merchant that has a square device, to pay in bitcoin instead of dollar? Or does the merchant first have to do something (like register the bitcoin channel with square)?
1K bounty to the first person who can answer this with proof to back them up.
No. The merchant must fill out kyc and accept bitcoin payments. They must have the right app in the right mode.
More KYC. More doxxing. More taxes.
Bitcoiners these days are not the brightest lights.
They are celebrating state licenced companies eroding the last piece of privacy.
There are only 2 or 3 honourable Bitcoin businesses (BTCPayServer, Trezor) among thousands of government boot lickers (Coinbase, Binance, Square, Strike, Bitcoin Bull, Bitpay, Ledger, Blockstream...).
The enshitification of Bitcoin is accelerating with every company that captures the "p2p ecash system without third parties".
If you don't use Bitcoin in a self-sovereign way you are the problem. Why would I bother using KYC non-custodial BTC when I just can use fiat that is accepted everywhere?
SoV sure. Nice! But we're not there yet and likely never will be since most people see BTC as a fiat multiplier and as soon as SHTF they will all call home their speculative investments out of necessity.
KYC means social credit.
i can get you screenshots from a square dashboard tomorrow. the merchant has to go into their settings and enable it at the account level and then also manually include it in checkout options per POS or "device mode" grouping.
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Now nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspxdmhxue69uhkuamr9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshkz7tkdfkx26tvd4urqctvxa4ryur3wsergut9vsch5dmp8peszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqtxjx6r wields the belt of persuasion!
Get the strap!
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THIS IS PURE SINGAL.
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Nobody ever needed Square to accept Bitcoin.
Use Square's Bitcoin publicity momentum to get people aware that you are accepting Bitcoin, and use your own Bitcoin node, no Square KYC involved.
Right! This just makes it easier for normies to begin accepting Bitcoin... I've be accepting it since 2021 officially.
They never had any of this to accept bitcoin payments, I agree. But this is a excellent tool for normies and clueless people touch the protocol for the first time as it was made for, no begin using it as an asset iou for fiat or other “fix L2” bs.
Done! To access Bitcoin functionality through Square. Also set up to covert 21% of fiat payments into btc. 
For businesses that want to accept Bitcoin payments or convert card sales into Bitcoin:
Sign in to your Square Dashboard.
Go to the Banking section and select Bitcoin to begin setup.
Complete identity verification and two-step verification if not already set up.
Choose whether to accept Bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network or automatically convert a percentage of daily card sales into Bitcoin.
New Bitcoin conversions are managed through the Square Dashboard, not the Cash App, as of October 2025.
even after setup, bitcoin payment as a payment option only appears in the Square Point of Sale app in POS mode.
bitcoin payments don't appear even after setup if using Square Retail or Square Restaurant.
One small step for man 🫡
One giant leap for mankind ⚡️
Bitcoin is money. We need to use it as such.
Very cool milestone to see occur
Let’s see what adoption looks like
What's the tax situation in US for spending BTC?
100% covered by capital gains taxes, an accounting nightmare. I'm not spending a single satoshi except for zaps on NOSTR.
This is huge!
I don't think the problem is retailers who are unwilling to accept Bitcoin. The problem is Bitcoiners who are unwilling to spend their satoshis! Even at a German retailer for Bitcoin miners, only 5% of customers pay with BTC! Most Bitcoiners ignore the fact that Bitcoin is supposed to be a cash system and misuse it as a store of value!
That's why you convert everything into Bitcoin so you have no choice but to spend it.
This is the way
It's just about education.. at minimum, it is nearly seemless and free to buy Bitcoin and pay with it instead of fiat (thereby exercising the Bitcoin payment rails, while also not touching the stack. Also keeps it clean from a tax perspective until that gets changed too.
Bad ass day. Few understand yet. ⚡️
Great news. We just need more people willing to pay with bitcoin…
This has massive potential to become a real trojan horse.
It's up to us -- the bitcoin freedom money hardcores -- to push for people on both sides of the PoS to use bitcoin.
It's a huge opportunity but also a huge task!
i am always impressed with the US' culture of bitcoin contribution. inspiring! i hope to contribute as much as them too!!
I'd be interested to see how many people choose to pay in BTC. Surely you'd be spending the fiat first.
People who are 100% in. If you have fiat to spend, then you have too much fiat
Thats a fucking milestone. I tell you that.
Stripe is fully KYC'd, Stripe will be reporting your bitcoin transactions to the government. This is not what bitcoin was supposed to be. This is not a win, it's a fail.
Who in their right mind would pay in the world's strongest currency? Please, this is a trap.
People who are 100% in. If you are too worried to spend bitcoin, the problem is you have too much fiat
Could always use bitcoin to pay so that you're a part of the network growth and then buy back 1x, 2x, 4x or 8x ect as much? Would be great if nostr:nprofile1qqsvwct7ssehccgu040egxe4k8k9ru4wd605r2kfv9sf94gsu8pftcqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7lvsgtm or nostr:nprofile1qqsvn0dkjt80raqrxd470c98n7zrdehmcvj6p5hgw3kyku6zyd8z0fqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakquw0j5p included an automatic option for this too.
If fiat is so bad why did you hold it? Exchange everything for sats and expend it wisely.
I want to be 100% in BTC, but I can't do that without the damn state taking 32% of my assets. You would need to do this Face to Face using paper money, no one in their right mind would do that in Brazil
They only take it if you treats it as iou fiat. When you use it as money they can’t do nothing about it.
Trabalha na adoção local.
These are the interesting inspiring stories that increase Bitcoin adoption. If you've ever run a retail store (I have) you know what it means not to have to pay hefty 1.5-3% credit card fees.
I have friends that own a family farm that use Square as their Point of Sale system. I've been talking to them about Bitcoin for some time with typical reactions.
I showed them this feature and a new Bitcoin family was born!
Best Orange Pill machine I've ever seen.
square better den btcpay!
LFG 💪🏽
