Jack Dorsey’s Square has taken Bitcoin
Payments A step further on the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas this week.
For three days, the company pilotes a program where participants can make purchases with their Bitcoin by scanning a barcode. Payments are then made in almost real time via the lighting network, while square handles Real -time currency course calculations and confirmation messages, according to a press release.
Square hopes to make the feature available to a wider audience later in the year and to all customers in 2026, pending regulatory approval.
“We believe in an open, decentralized, fair, fast and cheap money system for everyone, and that’s exactly what we want to bring to square sellers,” said Miles Sutter, Bitcoin Product Lead at Block (XYZ), the parent company at Square.