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From Coindesk
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Sarah Friar, CFO of payments firm Square, has filled in some of the detail on why the company has launched a bitcoin pilot scheme.

Revealed yesterday, Square's mobile payments product, Cash App, is now allowing a limited number of users to buy or sell bitcoin within their accounts.

Talking to CNBC, Friar explained:

"You're talking about it, it's out there, and so we want to do an experiment and say, OK, is this real? Do customers actually want to be able to do this?"

Friar noted that customers often feed back desired features in Square's products, and that some using Cash App to make payments have requested an "easy way to buy and sell bitcoin."
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Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/is-it-real-square-cfo-speaks-out-on-cash-app-bitcoin-trial/

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This type of adoption is a mixed blessing. It's unlikely to onboard new people to crypto other than the vendors accepting it. If it is selling off the bitcoin at market value when you make the purchase this creates sell pressure. What does bitcoin gain? Maybe some brand awareness and usefulness for spending around town I guess.

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