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The simple problem is that square terminals do not accept bitcoin as Block has claimed. Every time I go to a business with square which are a lot of business in my area I ask to pay in btc and there is no option to pay on btc and nobody is able to find the pay with btc option. Simply have it enabled as the default or at least communicate that to merchants. Merchants were not even aware of the btc support.

you really shouldn’t use absolute terms like this. Many of those terminals do accept allow bitcoin payments. I used one today even for coffee and pastries here: https://btcmap.org/merchant/way:382559089

Cashier had no idea what bitcoin was and didn’t have to because the terminal had the toggle option to let me pay how I wanted.

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72 sats \ 4 replies \ @nout 27 Oct

Many places with Square terminals that accept are unfortunately not on btcmap. There is a large gap in clarity here.

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yep and there are many that ARE on BTCmap that don’t! >:(

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @anon 27 Oct

Is there a way I can view businesses that accept btc on their square temrinals without having to download a closed source app?

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if you’re referring to the BTCmap app and are comfortable using the website then sure. if you find something listed there and click on a listing there it will tell you what method they’re using. the one I posted to your comment is a good example. it tells you they use square.

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Even within the map in CashApp it doesn't actually show places that accept. Which is very annoying.

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I concede to your main point though. square really isn’t doing a great job with this. there is a ton of variance and communication between merchant and square seems abismal. But I have used the toggle option in five different states within this last year. so we can’t say “they don’t”.

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Agree. In my experience about 10% of Square merchants actually have Bitcoin enabled.

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