{"id":28883,"date":"2025-05-27T20:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28883"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:47:17","slug":"square-pilots-real-time-bitcoin-payments-in-vegas-plans-full-availability-to-customers-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28883","title":{"rendered":"Square Pilots Real-Time Bitcoin Payments in Vegas, Plans Full Availability To Customers in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jack Dorsey\u2019s Square has taken bitcoin BTC payments a step further at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas this week.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>For three days, the company is piloting a program where attendees can make purchases with their bitcoin by scanning a barcode. Payments are then settled in near real-time via the Lighting Network while Square handles real-time exchange rate calculations and confirmation notifications, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/block.xyz\/inside\/block-to-roll-out-bitcoin-payments-on-square\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Square hopes to make the feature available to a broader audience later this year and to all customers by 2026, pending regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in an open, decentralized, fair, fast, and low-cost money system for everyone, and that\u2019s exactly what we want to bring to Square sellers,\u201d said Miles Suter, Bitcoin Product Lead at Block (XYZ), the parent company of Square.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Dorsey\u2019s Square has taken bitcoin BTC payments a step further at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas this week. For three days, the company is piloting a program where attendees can make purchases with their bitcoin by scanning a barcode. Payments are then settled in near real-time via the Lighting Network while Square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}