{"id":78418,"date":"2026-03-31T10:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78418"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:47:01","slug":"block-shares-rise-4-pre-market-as-square-introduces-automatic-bitcoin-payments-for-merchants-with-no-processing-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78418","title":{"rendered":"Block Shares Rise 4% Pre-Market As Square Introduces Automatic Bitcoin Payments For Merchants With No Processing Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Block Inc.\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XYZ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XYZ\" data-exchange=\"NYSE\" rel=\"noopener\">(NYSE:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XYZ\">XYZ<\/a>) shares were trading higher in the pre-market session on Tuesday after its <strong>Square\u00a0<\/strong>point-of-sale system rolled out automatic <strong>Bitcoin <\/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>) payments for eligible merchants in the U.S.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Square Announces Automatic Bitcoin To Fiat Feature<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Square\u00a0<\/strong>said in a X post that the new feature will allow sellers to accept Bitcoin payments that convert \u201cinstantly\u201d\u00a0to cash at checkout, without any additional setup. <\/p>\n<p>Square added that there will be no processing fees for these transactions until 2026. Note that this feature is available to all U.S.-based merchants except those based in New York<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Automatically enabled bitcoin payments are rolling out to eligible U.S. Square sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Start accepting bitcoin that instantly converts to &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51561388\/block-shares-rise-4-pre-market-as-square-introduces-automatic-bitcoin-payments-for-merchant?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Block\" shares rise pre-market as square introduces automatic bitcoin payments for merchants with no processing fees>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Block Inc.\u00a0(NYSE:XYZ) shares were trading higher in the pre-market session on Tuesday after its Square\u00a0point-of-sale system rolled out automatic Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) payments for eligible merchants in the U.S. Square Announces Automatic Bitcoin To Fiat Feature Square\u00a0said in a X post that the new feature will allow sellers to accept Bitcoin payments that convert \u201cinstantly\u201d\u00a0to [&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-78418","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\/78418","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=78418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}