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As covered by Reuters, Square Inc, spearheaded by the Twitter co-founder and BTC believer Jack Dorsey, intends to acquire Afterpay – the lending pioneer Afterpay, paying a staggering $29 billion for the deal.
Twitter's Dorsey leads $29 bln buyout of lending pioneer Afterpay https://t.co/obz5De1GbQ
— Anna Irrera (@annairrera) August 2, 2021
Dorsey’s Square buys a global lending giant
Dorsey has commented that Square is buying Afterpay in order to continue making the current financial system “more fair, accessible and inclusive”. Afterpay’s business has been built in accordance to those key principles.
The companies will connect their payment ecosystems, offer more compelling products and services and give the power back to consumers and merchants, Twitter co-founder Dorsey added.
The purchase of the company’s stocks by Square has evaluated them at $92.65 equivalent of Australian dollars (A$126.21).
For the Afterpay founders, this deal signifies an important recognition of the Aussie tech sector.
Square's Cash App reports $2.72 billion in Bitcoin revenue
As reported by U.Today earlier, peer-to-peer payments platform Cash App that belongs to Jack Dorsey’s Squire, has managed to record a staggering $2.72 billion in Bitcoin revenue in the second quarter this year.
This growth occurred despite the major correction that has been happening in the crypto market when the flagship cryptocurrency went down from its April all-time high of almost $65,000.
This rise of Cash App’s Bitcoin revenue accounts for a 143% YOY growth. Still, the Bitcoin revenue from the previous quarter totals $3.5 billion.
The Bitcoin service of the company provides the major part of Square’s total Q2 net revenue ($4.68 billion).