Quote from: Hydrogen
Numbers like this could hint at wider bitcoin adoption in the future.
Well, it doesn't directly suggest that, since Square made most of the profit from acting as a buy/sell platform of BTC and not as a merchant. But it goes without saying that adoption rates are only going to increase in the future, imo.
Its embarrassing that I missed that part.
Good read. 
Would merit you if I had any left.It's even worse than that....
https://www.ccn.com/heres-how-much-revenue-square-earned-from-bitcoin-trading-in-q1/
Profits from well established companies like Square will further help the development of the cryptocurrency market. This will help legitimize crypto in the eyes of the public and big institutional investors and incentivize them to join. The only barrier right now is the speculative nature of this space, but once the dust settles we will see the real winners and the coins to stay.
Or, if I may rephrase that, attract every hyena on a 200 km radius with the smell of fresh money.
None of those involved are charities that are interested in the development as long as it doesn't bring them profits, take that away from BTC and you're not going to see them again.
