Jack Dorsey’s Square has taken bitcoin BTC payments a step further at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas this week.For three days, the company is piloting a program where attendees can make purchases with their bitcoin by scanning a barcode. Payments are then settled in near real-time via the Lighting Network while Square handles real-time exchange rate calculations and confirmation notifications, according to a press release.Square hopes to make the feature available to a broader audience later this year and to all customers by 2026, pending regulatory approval
source: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/05/27/square-pilots-real-time-bitcoin-payments-in-vegas-plans-full-availability-to-customers-in-2026