4 million square merchants can now easily accept bitcoin. bitcoin is the best money. absolutely massive. 🎯 image

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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.
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Square Bitcoin Dashboard 🟧 💻 The Bitcoin dashboard has a "conversions" toggle. This allows merchants to select on or off at anytime. It has a slider to choose a percentage of daily transactions to be converted into bitcoin. There is also an ability to buy Bitcoin directly from a given locations fiat sales balance! This is a pretty wild smash buy feature. A merchant can also Spend Bitcoin and Sell Bitcoin right from the dashboard! There is also a history tile, rewards tile (more on that) and price of bitcoin shown. You can choose to display in whole Bitcoin or Satoshis! An faq explains the basics and you are shown your buying limits, send limits but doesn't show any sell limits. My limits are very high but that may be based on my buisness history. Closer details: The promoted $50 of bitcoin is for first 20,000 merchants who setup the feature. You must have one one or more card conversions a month for three months. In addition to sats or bitcoin, you can display balance in bitcoin/sats or dollars. The setup process is to click banking, bitocoin, get started. Then you input the type of business, the owners name, address, beneficial ownership status. The second kyc seems silly given they already have all my information and money lol. But it is what it is. Running a business is beyond kyc hell so nothing new there. These features are all separate from direct bitcoin payments that are set to be live November 10th. The payment feature is under blue payment button which opens normal payment type options screen. Tap bitcoin and there will be a qr code to scan. The same receipt screen will appear after payment. It is seemless like any other transaction. So if the business spins the terminal or uses remote terminals, you as the customer, can check to see if the bitcoin option is there and use it wihout saying anything. You may or may not want to link your loyalty account to btc payments for privacy. How I am thinking about this: I will have both the conversions off and the bitcoin transacrions sent as dollars until Jan 2026 simply for tax purposes. In 2026 I will select a percentage that I feel matches my general profit margin. The idea being I want to capture profits in bitcoin and not have to sell it to cashflow fiat liabilities. I will keep the entire bitcoin transactions however. Now if we get a dip over 25% I may smash buy my balance to get a kicker. Also if I take a Square fiat loan which they also offer one click in the dashboard I may take a portion of it and buy bitcoin as a kicker on the loan repayment. These new features if used wisely can separate your business as having a bitcoin strategy or not having one. So far very impressed with what they have done for merchants. #square #bitcoin
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why does this emphasize phone number collection over email address? my biggest issue with rewards programs is giving up privacy. here's an area where cashu could be great.
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Mica 1 month ago
I found Laraberts blog on T.G, last month and decided to feature her service . "I basically make about $6,000-$8,000 a month online. It's enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 20 hours a week from home.
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Vincent Anton 1 month ago
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. image
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Chad Lupkes 1 month ago
The Right to Exit is the absolute, unimpeded right of every individual to withdraw their economic activity, financial capital, and digital identity from any State or corporate jurisdiction at zero financial friction. This right is secured by the use of self-sovereign digital identity and sound, verifiable, non-fiat money (such as Bitcoin). It is the ultimate expression of individual sovereignty, ensuring that the consent of the governed is always voluntary and that Capital (Measurement) is always based on verifiable wealth, not systemic debt.
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yo 1 month ago
Grow a pair Fuck the state
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MrNice 1 month ago
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)?
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DPR 1 month ago
Average square user has no clue what you’re talking about, just saying.
Not if KYC is required for every transaction. If KYC is required, this is actually worse for freedom because your purchases are recorded on the blockchain forever.
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.
Done! To access Bitcoin functionality through Square. Also set up to covert 21% of fiat payments into btc. image 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.
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SoapMiner 1 month ago
Bitcoin is money. We need to use it as such.
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?
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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.
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.
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No. The merchant must fill out kyc and accept bitcoin payments. They must have the right app in the right mode.
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.
no, merchant has to enable it explicitly
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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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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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Z2theach 1 month ago
Within my CashApp on the Bitcoin page. Merchants near me.
Interesting, I'm going to have to remember that next time I'm running errands in the big city!
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npub21 1 month ago
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.
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RUSSO 1 month ago
Welcome to the land of freedom
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.
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.
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?
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.
Oh wow, saw another post that mentioned indeed no processing fees. That's crazy.
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.
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.
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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Mith 1 month ago
i am always impressed with the US' culture of bitcoin contribution. inspiring! i hope to contribute as much as them too!! View quoted note →
I'd be interested to see how many people choose to pay in BTC. Surely you'd be spending the fiat first.
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.
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I zero percent had my SimpleX notification turned on. It was off. Sorry LA Bu Bu Jack. I've responded 100%. 0 to 100 real quick 😘 💋
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.
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.
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Guerra Total 1 month ago
>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?
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BTC-Satan 1 month ago
100% covered by capital gains taxes, an accounting nightmare. I'm not spending a single satoshi except for zaps on NOSTR.
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. image
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.
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...
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Guerra Total 1 month ago
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.
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Guerra Total 1 month ago
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.
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.
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.
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Guerra Total 1 month ago
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.
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Guerra Total 1 month ago
The tools are there, you already mentioned them in another comment; our job is to educate people, not to complain that people don't use them.
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.
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.
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JoJ 1 month ago
People who are 100% in. If you are too worried to spend bitcoin, the problem is you have too much fiat
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JoJ 1 month ago
People who are 100% in. If you have fiat to spend, then you have too much fiat
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JoJ 1 month ago
This is the way
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 @Cash App or @npub1ex7m...vyt9 included an automatic option for this too.
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Trivium 1 month ago
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. View quoted note →
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Steven 1 month ago
Our first store is at the corner of Herndon and Marks in northwest Fresno. Second store opening next week at Shepherd and Willow in northeast Fresno/Clovis area
I missed this promise (thanks for the reminder @Dr. Hax ) because I wasn't able to get to my friend's dashboard today. Please accept this markdown dump of the square support page article as penance (url to the original article in the archive below):
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Accept and manage bitcoin payments | Square Support Center
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BIP177 1 month ago
square better den btcpay!
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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.
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.
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BIP177 3 weeks ago
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! #moonlamboteshose