Do you frequent a business that uses Square POS and want to give them a nudge to enable bitcoin payments? Here's an email template for you:

****Subject: Accepting Bitcoin at Square Terminals

​****Mods to make (blanks to fill in): 8, first two paragraphs & signature

{Business/contact name}, my name is {name} and I've been a customer and fan of {business} for a few years. I've been to the {location} location several times and especially enjoy the {unique item} there.

I know that {business} uses Square terminals for your POS system. Early in November, Square made it so that any merchant can very easily accept bitcoin payments. They even put up the website btcmap.org and list business that accept bitcoin payments:

https://btcmap.org/

To accept bitcoin payments, there is a change to your Square settings that has to be made and it's really easy. Here's a how-to from Square:

https://my.squareup.com/help/us/en/article/8554-accept-bitcoin-payments-with-square-alpha

It's up to merchants if they want bitcoin payments to be received into their account as bitcoin, get converted to USD instantly, or some custom split (ie 50/50). If you like, you can stick with the default of having 100% of the payments to come in as USD.

As local bitcoin enthusiasts who also support local businesses, we'd be really excited to be able to pay at our favorite places in bitcoin!

I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have about this.

Thanks,

{name}

{organization}