Square Terminals and Bitcoin Onramps

Discussion of Square enabling Bitcoin payments at merchants and how default acceptance improves everyday Bitcoin use.

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5:28 - TBPN OpenAI

14:43 - Dashboard

15:53 - Hot Style Takeover

18:13 - Hormuz

27:38 - Oracle layoffs

34:33 - SHRIMPS

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