{"id":66258,"date":"2026-01-05T07:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66258"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:16:33","slug":"bitcoin-merchant-adoption-surges-53-in-2025-as-blocks-square-drives-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66258","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Merchant Adoption Surges 53% In 2025 As Block&#8217;s Square Drives Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin\u2019s<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) acceptance among merchants sharply increased in 2025, with analysts attributing the growth to <strong>Block Inc.\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>(NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XYZ\">XYZ<\/a>) integration of BTC payments into its point-of-sale business. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin Adoption Surges<\/h2>\n<p>The number of up-to-date merchants, i.e, businesses verified within the last year, rose 53% last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/btcmap.org\/dashboard\">according <\/a>to BTC Map,  a platform that tracks businesses accepting Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The count of \u201crecently verified\u201d merchants rose to 11,242 as of this writing, while the overall number of merchants increased to 19,910.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jameson Lopp<\/strong>, Chief Security Officer at self-custody platform firm\u00a0<strong>Casa<\/strong>, was \u201cpretty sure\u201d that <strong>Square<\/strong>, Block\u2019s point-of-sale arm, drove the growth by allowing merchants to accept BTC in everyday transactions.<\/p>\n<p>While BTC Map agreed that Square &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49683887\/bitcoin-merchant-adoption-surges-53-in-2025-as-blocks-square-drives-growth?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" merchant adoption surges in as block square drives growth>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin\u2019s (CRYPTO: BTC) acceptance among merchants sharply increased in 2025, with analysts attributing the growth to Block Inc.\u2019s\u00a0(NYSE:XYZ) integration of BTC payments into its point-of-sale business. Bitcoin Adoption Surges The number of up-to-date merchants, i.e, businesses verified within the last year, rose 53% last year, according to BTC Map, a platform that tracks businesses accepting [&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-66258","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\/66258","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=66258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}