Learn by playing: Cash App vs Square

This is a pretend version of buying and saving Bitcoin so you can get the feel of it with zero risk. Buy with play money, watch your sats stack up, and fill the savings bar toward $100,000. Reset anytime.

First, the thing that confuses everybody: Cash App is the personal app where a regular person buys and holds Bitcoin. Square is the same company's business side, where a shop accepts Bitcoin from customers. Same family, two jobs. Practice both in the tabs below.

SAVINGS GOAL

$0.00

target: $100,000.00

0.00% of the way there

Bitcoin you own

0.00000000

That many sats

Total play money spent

$0.00

Up or down vs what you paid

$0.00

Cash App (personal: buy & save)

Square (business: accept BTC)

Cash App · Bitcoin

$2,000.00

play cash to spend

Bitcoin price now: $60,000

You own 0.00000000 BTC (worth $0.00)

Auto-buy $25 every week when I fast-forward time (this is "stacking sats")

What a real buy does: you tap an amount in dollars, the app trades it for that many sats at the current price, and keeps a tiny fee (this sandbox charges 1.5% like a real app roughly does). You can buy as little as a dollar. Buying a little, often, is the calm way to do it.

Square · Point of Sale

You are the shop. A customer wants to pay in Bitcoin.

Bitcoin price now: $60,000

Auto-convert the Bitcoin I receive into dollars (what most shops do)

Shop dollars taken in: $0.00

What a real Square sale does: the customer scans a code and pays the dollar amount in Bitcoin. As the shop you choose: keep the Bitcoin (it stacks toward your savings goal here), or auto-convert to dollars so the price moving does not change what you earned on the sale. Both are real choices a business makes.

Fast-forward time (watch it grow, and watch it dip)

Honest note: real Bitcoin goes UP and DOWN. This sandbox moves the price both ways on purpose, so it is honest practice and not a fantasy where the number only climbs. Getting to $100,000 here is about learning the buttons, not a promise about real life. Never put in money you cannot afford to lose.

What just happened

Welcome. You have $2,000 in play cash. Try a buy, or fast-forward time with auto-buy on.

Money Matters · Education · practice only, no real money