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Global Metrics

Here are the top stats from the last period:

  • Total Bitcoin-accepting merchants: 17,595 โ†’ 17,931 (+336)
  • Recently verified (1y): 9,222 โ†’ 9,420 (+198)
  • Avg. days since last verification: 386 โ†’ 399 (+13)
  • Merchants boosted: 12
  • Total boost duration: 1,530 days
  • Comments posted: 40

Graph showing merchant adoption over the last quarter

Find current stats over at the ๐Ÿ‘‰ BTC Map Dashboard.

Communities

We launched Community lists on both X and Nostr to make it easier to follow the true bitcoin adoption signal across socials.

If you’re a BTC Map Community and are not on these lists then let us know!

We also welcomed the following new communities over the past month:

We now have 569 Communities from all across the planet.

Showing Events on BTC Map

One of our most requested features is in development … we are now showing events on BTC Map!

A few event pins displayed on the map

Watch this space ๐Ÿ‘€

New Maintainer: Mind09

A big welcome to Mind09 as our new team member in Thailand! He is a Bangkok local, active in BOB Space, the Bitcoin community in the capital, and connected with other communities across the country. This month, he started a major update of all the Thai places. We are very happy to have someone who can read, write, and speak Thai

You can follow Mind09 on Nostr and see his tagging activity on his BTC Map profile.

Crackdown on Uppercase

Rockedf and Comino started changing the spelling of place names for each location that is written entirely in uppercase letters. All-uppercase names are not allowed on OSM, and such formatting makes them stand out unnaturally from the rest.

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to the project this period:

Support Us

There are many ways in which you can support us:

  • Become a Shadowy Supertagger and help maintain your local area or pitch-in with the never-ending global effort.

  • Consider a donation to the project:

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