Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) acceptance among merchants sharply increased in 2025, with analysts attributing the growth to Block Inc.’s (NYSE:XYZ) integration of BTC payments into its point-of-sale business.

Bitcoin Adoption Surges

The number of up-to-date merchants, i.e, businesses verified within the last year, rose 53% last year, according to BTC Map, a platform that tracks businesses accepting Bitcoin.

The count of “recently verified” merchants rose to 11,242 as of this writing, while the overall number of merchants increased to 19,910.

Jameson Lopp, Chief Security Officer at self-custody platform firm Casa, was “pretty sure” that Square, Block’s point-of-sale arm, drove the…

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