CoinVoice recently learned that after months of investigation by the U.S. federal government into Block's compliance practices, Cash App decided to terminate the Bitcoin transfer feature via user tags, raising concerns among users about the app's ability to handle risk.
Cash App announced in a notice on its help page that it will "no longer support sending and receiving Bitcoin between $cashtags starting December 20, 2024." The company noted that users can still send and receive Bitcoin using the Lightning Network or the Bitcoin blockchain.
An examination by Wayback Machine in October showed no such notice. Furthermore, this change seems to only affect Bitcoin transfers and does not appear to impact other services, such as sending stocks or cash via unique identifiers known as cashtags. [Original link]
