The acorn that became a Square. The name Jack buried in a cafeteria in 2009. $SQUIRREL digs it back up.
yes, it's real. yes, it's still up. — also covered by TechCrunch & TNW
Before the white dongle. Before the IPO. Before it was Block. Square was Squirrel — a payments company named for squirreling money away, whose first card reader was a wooden acorn.
Then Jack Dorsey walked into Apple's cafeteria to pitch them, saw the lunch registers ran "Squirrel Systems," and renamed the whole company on the spot. A $100B name, given up over a point-of-sale in a cafeteria.
$SQUIRREL is the acorn coming back for its tree. The original name. The original mascot. The story is real — you're one Google away.
The squirrel doesn't trade options. The squirrel doesn't do payment-for-order-flow. The squirrel does one thing and one thing only: stack acorns and forget where 74% of them went.
launch. stack. tell one friend the Square story. watch them Google it in disbelief.
memes on every timeline. squirrel content is infinite and we intend to prove it.
polite letter to Jack asking for the name back. envelope contains one (1) acorn as consideration.
squirrels forget where they bury 74% of their acorns and accidentally plant forests. we are the forest.
"Squirrel payments,
anywhere."
LAUNCHING SOON — follow the twitter for the drop
No. This is a meme coin about a true story. Jack, if you're reading this: the acorn was better, and our DMs are open.
Completely. Google "Square originally called Squirrel." TechCrunch wrote it up in 2012, Dorsey has told it on stage, and the wooden acorn prototype was photographed. Best fact in fintech.
Acorns. Emotional support. The smug feeling of knowing a piece of fintech trivia that 99% of Square's own employees forgot.
Squirrels bury acorns without knowing which become trees. This is financial advice from a rodent, which is to say: not financial advice at all.
Squirrels. Dozens of us. The launch mechanics and authority revokes are verifiable on-chain — run the CA through any rug-checker when it drops.