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Block, led by CEO Jack Dorsey, announced $66 million in gross profit from selling Bitcoin through its Cash App in the fourth quarter of last year. This marks a 90% increase from the previous year, according to the company’s earnings report released on Feb. 22. Block’s Bitcoin Revenue Soars to $2.5 Billion The report revealed that Block’s total Bitcoin revenue for the fourth quarter amounted to $2.5 billion, reflecting a 37% increase year-over-year. Similarly, full-year...

Shares for Jack Dorsey’s fintech giant Block (SQ) surged by 12% to $49.19 on Friday after the company published bullish third-quarter earnings figures a day prior. That includes increased Bitcoin revenue at the company’s payment subsidiary, Cash App, which reeled in 37% more income than during the same period last year. Block is Back Per the Thursday report, Block’s total net revenue rose by 24% year over year to $5.62 billion. When excluding “Bitcoin revenue”, this figure...

The payment technology firm Block (formerly known as Square) revealed that its bitcoin revenue for the second quarter was approximately 34% more than the figure reported in Q2, 2022.  The company, spearheaded by Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey, is a main player on the crypto scene, owning over 8,000 BTC.  Q2’s Solid Numbers Block revealed that its mobile application that enables monetary transfers – Cash App – generated a bitcoin revenue of $2.39 billion in Q2, 2023. The sum...

After a 2-year investigation, Hindenburg concluded Block (previously known as Square) “systematically took advantage of the demographics it claims to be helping.” The report accused the firm of facilitating “fraud against consumers and the government” as well as “avoiding regulation.” It further called Block’s loans and fees to be “predatory” in nature and designed to “mislead investors with inflated metrics.” The US-based short seller said its research involved numerous...

Block (formerly known as Square) – an American multinational technology conglomerate founded by Jack Dorsey – disclosed $1.83 billion of bitcoin revenue generated from its Cash App payment service in Q4, 2022.  The figure was nearly $2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, and the company blamed the decline of the crypto market for the downturn. However, Block’s shares climbed nearly 7% after reporting positive overall financial results. BTC Revenue Drops 7% YoY Block’s...

CashApp is now fully compatible with the lightning network for sending and receiving Bitcoin payments.  The full integration makes Bitcoin significantly easier to use as a means of payment via a commonly used consumer app.  CashApp Integrates Lightning The mobile payment service enabled users to send lightning payments to external lightning wallets (ex. Chivo Wallet, BlueWallet, Muun Wallet, etc) back in February. However, the ability to receive lightning payments from...

More than 10 million people have now bought Bitcoin using Jack Dorsey’s CashApp, according to Block’s Q1 2022 shareholder letter. The app generated $624 million in gross profit for the company over that time, $43 million of which came from Bitcoin sales. Expanding Bitcoin Access The company states that it is focused on expanding awareness and access to Bitcoin among its customers, in order to bolster the network’s adoption. Block Head Jack Dorsey – who stepped down as CEO of...

American asset management company Ark Invest has sold its holdings of fintech giant PayPal and backed Bitcoin-friendly Cash App. This comes after Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest, revealed her preference for Block’s (formerly Square) Cash App over PayPal’s Venmo at the 2022 North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami. Backing Cash App Wood believes Cash App has embraced an organic growth structure in contrast to Venmo’s “top-down” and frantic approach to Bitcoin and highlighted...

CashApp – the mobile payment service developed by Block – announced many major Bitcoin-related upgrades on Thursday. One of the new integrations allows users to automatically convert their incoming paychecks into Bitcoin. Another Wave of Bitcoin Features CashApp is quite familiar with Bitcoin and its surrounding technology already. It already allows users to purchase Bitcoin alongside stocks, and to send lightning network payments to wallets capable of receiving them. In...