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Square

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168 articles rising

Block’s planned H2 2025 Lightning rollout would let merchants accept bitcoin through Square hardware, extending Square beyond conventional card payments.

Who they are

Square is Block’s merchant-facing payments and commerce business, appearing in coverage as the hardware-enabled checkout platform through which Jack Dorsey’s company connects small businesses to payment services, financial products and, increasingly, bitcoin infrastructure.

The recent arc

Recent coverage has shifted from Square’s standalone growth reporting to Block’s operational reset and product strategy. In August 2024, Block reported Square profit up 15% year over year to $923 million while raising full-year guidance; by late 2025, Square Head of Product Willem Avé was discussing Block’s 2024 restructuring, AI automation, crypto and Lightning.

The most consequential current product story is Block’s plan to enable bitcoin payments on Square in H2 2025 via the Lightning Network and Square hardware. That expansion sits alongside early-2026 reporting from Wired that Block employees described falling morale amid rolling layoffs and Dorsey’s push for generative-AI tools, making execution and organizational capacity a central part of the latest coverage.

The tension

Coverage circles a tension between Square’s effort to broaden merchant payments through bitcoin, Lightning and automation and the need to preserve trust and operational discipline in a tightly contested, regulated payments market. PayPal is a recurring peer, the DOJ’s Visa case explicitly named Square and PayPal as competitors allegedly constrained by Visa, and the CFPB’s larger-participant rule places Square among major nonbank wallet and payment apps facing supervision.

Why it matters

If Square can turn its existing merchant hardware footprint into a usable Lightning acceptance channel while maintaining growth, it could make crypto payments a more concrete part of everyday seller infrastructure rather than a separate Block experiment. But the reported layoffs and culture concerns, along with regulatory scrutiny across digital payments, leave open whether the company can deliver that expansion without weakening the merchant experience that underpins the business.

Square has appeared in 168 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2023Q4 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Jack Dorsey, Twitter, PayPal, Bitcoin.

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Coverage Timeline

2022-11-17
The Verge 3 related

Linktree announces Payment Lock, which lets creators on its paid plans add a paywall and use PayPal or Square to charge up to $150 for access to premium content

Mia Sato / The Verge :

2022-06-03
9to5Mac 15 related

Square plans to roll out support for Apple's new Tap to Pay on iPhone feature in its Square Point of Sale app later in 2022 and launches an Early Access Program

2021-07-10
The Verge 28 related

Square announces it will build a hardware wallet for bitcoin, after Jack Dorsey had discussed the possibility of creating one in June

CEO Jack Dorsey said the company was considering one in June  —  Square is going to make a hardware wallet for bitcoin, the company's hardware lead, Jesse Dorogusker, announced on Thursday.

2021-07-09
The Verge 18 related

Square announces it will build a hardware wallet for bitcoin, after Jack Dorsey had discussed the possibility of creating one in June

CEO Jack Dorsey said the company was considering one in June  —  Square is going to make a hardware wallet for bitcoin, the company's hardware lead, Jesse Dorogusker, announced on Thursday.

2021-06-05
The Block 16 related

Jack Dorsey says Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet

Square is considering the development of a bitcoin hardware wallet, according to Jack Dorsey, CEO of the payments firm.  —  Such a product launch isn't a done deal, according to Dorsey, who previewed ...

2021-05-28
Bloomberg 6 related

Google announces new tools and partnerships with Shopify, Square, GoDaddy, and WooCommerce to help merchants sell more easily in Search, Maps, and YouTube

see more here, including the new retail brand experiences across Search, Shopping, Images, Maps and YouTube: https://blog.google/... #GML2021 https://twitter.com/...

2021-05-25
Bloomberg 5 related

Code references in Square's latest update to its iOS app indicate that it is working on offering checking and savings accounts to its users

Bloomberg :

2019-07-23
ZDNet 3 related

Square launches a Photo Studio service for all online merchants, not just Square customers, that lets them send in a product to be photographed for $9.95

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :

2018-12-05
VentureBeat 25 related

Google launches Flutter 1.0, its cross-platform UI toolkit and SDK for building Android and iOS apps, as Square announces two new Flutter SDKs for easy payments

its fast, powerful cross-platform app UI toolkit Guido Rosso / 2Dimensions : Flare Launch  —  We're excited to announce the launch of Flare … Deven Joshi / The Startup : Flutter 1.0 : An Introduction ...

2018-06-25
TechCrunch 3 related

PayPal's Venmo follows Square by officially launching its own MasterCard-branded debit card in the US, following beta tests of a now-discontinued Visa card

Venmo today is officially introducing its own debit card in partnership with MasterCard, following beta tests of a Visa-branded debit card last year.

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Quarterly Coverage

Top Sources

Narrative

Square has appeared in 390 tech news articles since December 2014. The biggest stories include Square starts shipping its chip card reader with Apple Pay support; Samsung Pay now... and MobileCoin Chief Product Officer Bob Lee, who worked on CashApp as Square's CTO and on.... Frequently covered alongside Jack Dorsey, Twitter, Apple, Google, and Amazon.

Key Moments

2024Q2consumer -50pts
2024Q3enterprise -82pts; developer +9pts; consumer -14pts
2024Q4enterprise -18pts; developer -9pts; consumer +14pts

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