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@owenbjennings
executive officer and head of business @blocks (NYSE: $XYZ) / mediocre chef
boom. today we're onboarding our first few @Square sellers for the new native bitcoin acceptance experience this is the way!
bitcoin was built to be used: open, decentralized, resilient. current tax rules make buying a coffee a taxable event. we wrote a little something - it’s time to make bitcoin everyday money. block.xyz/inside/policie…
.@PepsiCo just announced it will eliminate artificial colors and flavors from Lay’s and Tostitos by year’s end—and expand the use of avocado and olive oil in place of canola and soybean oil. I urge every other food company to follow their lead and join the movement to Make…
Joining the big leagues. Block is officially added to the S&P 500. And we’re still just getting started. 🚀
Joining the big leagues. Block is officially added to the S&P 500. And we’re still just getting started. 🚀
@CashApp I have never won anything I just cried when I checked my cash app to see this Thank you so much @CashApp.
we all need to push on the de minimis tax exemption for bitcoin payments... bitcoin is already clearly a better form of gold. the next step is truly getting to the “peer-to-peer electronic cash system” state that’s not going to happen if folks have to pay cap gains on a latte
Afterpay is now live with Uber and Uber Eats in ANZ! Let’s go. More to build.
When we started to roll Tap to Pay to our Cash for Business customers I expected it to be a useful feature for *some* - I was pretty surprised to see a ~35% lift in average GPV for sellers once they got the feature. So much more to build. Onward! businesswire.com/news/home/2025…
Probably 95% of Frontend work can just be vibecoded at this point. I wouldn’t recommend spending too much time learning it. Instead focus on Backend and Infra.
Dropped into the @Square SF Corner Store yesterday and got behind the counter with @JimmyButler to ring up a cappuccino. Loved spending time with Jimmy, the BIGFACE crew, our sellers and local community leaders. Thankful to everyone who came through. squareup.com/us/en/press/bi…
excited to see you at investor day later this year!! let’s go
Mark your calendars 🗓️ We will host our Investor Day on November 19 in SF, starting at 9am PT. Our senior leadership team will share our long-term strategy, financial framework, and key initiatives. Details on how to attend IRL: investors.block.xyz/investor-news/…
excited to roll tap to pay today for Cash for Business great example of using Square’s tech stack to serve Cash’s network so much more we can do here
periodic reminder: the only way i’m aware of to get fee-free, spread-free bitcoin is to get your paycheck deposited into @CashApp and automatically allocate some or all to bitcoin
Across Block we’ve been deliberate in how we’ve built products, leveraging internal data when we can to deliver value to our customers. For example, to date: the vast majority of Borrow volume has been underwritten using only Cash App data and less than 1% of U.S. BNPL GMV is…
this whole jp morgan “pricing sheet” tizzy around data access is closer to a nothingburger than a somethingburger - still a lot of regulatory ambiguity in dc - jpm “plans” haven’t been finalized - fintechs generally spend a de minimis amount on data access - data access isn’t…