Yeah, I already understood your point, for Square to quickly understand the onchain Bitcoin network been slow in confirmation while implementing Lighting Network for business which is another step ahead, that's great of them. Been time conscious is the biggest strength for a successful business, I don't know how customers will quickly understand how to use LN though, I just hope Square made it so easy and simple for them.

Satoshi envisioned bitcoin becoming widely adopted as peer-to-peer electronic cash. I think the biggest barrier stopping
that from becoming reality is government regulation, because govts don't like bitcoin competing with their respective local
fiat currencies. But it seems these days that is becoming less and less of an issue, at least in the US.

For example, there is a bill going through the US Congress to exempt bitcoin payments under $300 from capital gains taxes
which could be huge for retail payments adoption. I hear bitcoin is widely accepted in many stores in Switzerland.

Some US retailers like Newegg.com have been accepting bitcoin for years. I have used bitcoin payments myself to buy
computer products from them since 2022. More recently the Steak N Shake restaurant franchise (founded in 1934) started
accepting bitcoin in all 400 of their US locations. Coinbase has a debit card you can use to pay for stuff with your bitcoin
from anywhere that accepts a regular debit/credit card (I use one myself).



My favorite presentation from the Las Vegas conference last month:
Square Announces Bitcoin Payments w/ Miles Suter | Bitcoin 2025

The merchants don’t care if you pay by bitcoin or not. Most likely it will be like it currently is, by accepting bitcoin as payment to boost business, it automatically converts to fiat and the merchant is paid in fiat. Been like that for years.

This is to boost sales for certain businesses. Say there are 2 coffee shops. One accepts bitcoin and the other doesn’t. You can only pay in bitcoin, which business will you go to?

Something like this will be good for bitcoin.

Aside from bitcoin being recognized as hedge against inflation, more adoption is never a bad thing. POS device that accepts BTC is really needed to boost the adoption because most of online shops only few steps away from accepting crypto if not for the additional complexity and regulation.

With this they can be rest assured that integration will be seamless.

Only when the network is not congested, but, yeah - more speed and fewer fees - the better for the people!

Yes from his company just being added to the S&P 500 to also simultaniously launching a bitcoin powered chat server like discord or something, its all pretty wild. I wonder what these POS systems look like, probably just the same as any other ones. Its crazy because they are undercutting every single card merchant out there with this bold move and its not just a money grab but they want to be at the forefront of a full on shift in the way the world conducts its payments and transactions in public and online. This is a major move and I think progress. I wonder though how much of a percentage they take as their fee though...