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Ah, that makes a lot of sense, including why the owner said they didn't "get the update." Which I did feel like was a better and more precise response than Siggy's experience with "the bitcoin machine is broken"
Still, a bit disappointing that the bitcoin upgrade requires newer hardware. Wouldn't have thought it, since it just has to generate a LN QR code, which doesn't seem like a big task.
yeah kinda a bummer, I was only able to figure this out once I reached out to their support to ask.
At the time they told me their would be no support for older hardware and that version of the Square terminal app, which from a technical support perspective makes sense I guess.
This is why you will see South Texas and Latin America create their own versions of a Bitcoin POS, because of this very problem, not exclusive to square or apple.
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A lot of small and mid sized businesses probably have this same issue. @PlebLab, terminal setup still depends on an old iPad but we have the kiosk as well so it works for everything square but the bitcoin part which is weird.
So likely not their fault the hardware can keep running an older Square app and work just fine but it cannot meet Square’s current software requirements for newer POS features, including bitcoin related functionality in the latest rollout.
So this is less about one broken setup and more about legacy hardware getting left behind. For now we are fine just using Zaprite. Hope that helps clear up any problems with this local coffee shop, took me a day to figure this out when it first came out.
Lot of on margin businesses are unable to expense $700 for a new iPad just to use a Bitcoin feature, its just not conducive. Ideally this is why I will always believe Bitcoin adoption will come from bottom up, because of these types of use cases.
@NEEDcreations was able to use our Zaprite terminal when he visited the hackerspace.