{"id":38398,"date":"2025-07-23T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38398"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T15:01:58","slug":"square-begins-rollout-of-bitcoin-payments-for-sellers-targets-full-availability-by-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38398","title":{"rendered":"Square Begins Rollout of Bitcoin Payments for Sellers, Targets Full Availability by 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Jack Dorsey&#8217;s Square (XYZ) has begun the rollout of bitcoin payments for merchants on its network.<\/p>\n<p>Square began onboarding the first sellers, enabling them to accept Lightning Network-powered BTC payments from customers, Owen Jennings, executive officer at Square&#8217;s parent company Block (XYZ), <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/owenbjennings\/status\/1947725577345241253\">posted on X on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Payments are settled in real-near time using Bitcoin layer-2 Lightning, with Square processing the exchange into fiat.<\/p>\n<p>Square plans to make the service available to all merchants using its sales platform by next year. <\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/05\/27\/square-pilots-real-time-bitcoin-payments-in-vegas-plans-full-availability-to-customers-in-2026\">piloted the system at the Bitcoin 2025<\/a> conference in Las Vegas in May, allowing attendees to make purchases in BTC by scanning a barcode. <\/p>\n<p>Square regards Lightning as fundamental to its plans to accelerate bitcoin payments adoption, which has been hampered historically by slow speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning tackles this by creating micropayment channels that can process transaction away from the main Bitcoin blockchain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Dorsey&#8217;s Square (XYZ) has begun the rollout of bitcoin payments for merchants on its network. Square began onboarding the first sellers, enabling them to accept Lightning Network-powered BTC payments from customers, Owen Jennings, executive officer at Square&#8217;s parent company Block (XYZ), posted on X on Tuesday. Payments are settled in real-near time using Bitcoin [&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-38398","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\/38398","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=38398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}