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Global Metrics 🌍️

Here are the top stats from the last period (01-11-2025 → 30-11-2025):

  • Total Bitcoin-accepting merchants: 18,526 → 20,443 (+1,917 +10.3%)
  • Recently verified (<1y): 9,779 → 11,371 (+1,592 +16.3%)
  • Avg. days since last verification: 415 → 396 (-19 -4.6%)
  • Total boost duration (days): 870 → 4,395 (+3,525 +405.2%)
  • Comments posted: 36 → 66 (+30 +83.3%)

Graph showing merchant adoption over the last quarter

Find current stats over at the 👉 BTC Map Dashboard.

Country Activity 📈

Here are this month’s most active countries in terms of merchant data editing.

As you can see, the US has soared to the top with 2,564 edits, including 1,676 additions, most of which are down to the Square initiative.

Georgia 🇬🇪 leading the chasing pack 👀

Name Total Created Updated Deleted Comments
🇺🇸 United States of America 2,564 1,676 856 32 18
🇬🇪 Georgia 175 99 32 44 0
🇧🇷 Brazil 125 26 90 9 3
🇨🇿 Czechia 115 21 84 10 1
🇮🇹 Italy 94 18 74 2 1
🇫🇷 France 91 25 59 7 1
🇨🇭 Switzerland 77 10 61 6 4
🇩🇪 Germany 79 6 68 5 2
🇹🇭 Thailand 76 17 57 2 5
🇨🇦 Canada 69 11 55 3 1

Community Activity 📈

Here are this month’s most active countries in terms of merchant data editing.

And no surprises to see this list dominated by US communities!

Name Total Created Updated Deleted Comments
🇺🇸 Indy Bitcoin 91 30 58 3 1
🇺🇸 Bay Area Bitcoiners 83 56 25 2 0
🇺🇸 Bitcoin District 71 31 40 0 1
🇧🇷 Bitcoin Amantikir 65 3 62 0 1
🇺🇸 Colorado Bitcoin 62 36 26 0 4
🇺🇸 BitPlebs Los Angeles 54 46 8 0 0

New Communities 🫂

We welcomed the following new communities over the past month.

Brazil on fire!

We now have 613 Communities from all across the planet. 🤯

Square Launches to 4M US Merchants 🤯

November 10th will forever be known as Square day! Square enabled general access to Bitcoin payments to all of their 4M US merchants in what represents one of the biggest merchant adoption milestones in Bitcoin’s history.

Square image

It already feels like a lifetime ago, but it’s not even been a month yet 🙃. At the time of writing we have added 1,896 Square merchants and are currently working our way through a backlog of over 1,700 with no abatement in sight.

Our Shadowy Supertaggers are working overtime and so we’d like to shout out Comino, Rockedf, Rose, Beinardus and John Doe who are doing the majority of the heavy lifting- go tip those supertaggers!

If you are in the US and want to help with tagging then please get in touch - the more the merrier and far better done as locally as possible.

Android v1

November saw the milestone v1 ‘proud’ release of our Android App, courtesy of Igor.

Image depicting the proud/default/shame versioning system

Highlights include:

  • 🎨 Material 3 expressive colours and custom theming support
  • 🗺️ Map style picker
  • 🗓️ Show Bitcoin-related events and meetups
  • ⚡ Switch to v4 API
  • 🗣️ Improved language support

You can find the release notes here.

Web App

Hannes continues to crush it in improving the Web App, particularly on the performance side - we are now seeing cold start load times in a few seconds 🔥.

There have also been a few notable UX changes as we have ditched the merchant pins in favour of the slide in panel, giving us more screen real estate to play with. We have also just launched the ’nearby merchants’ panel where you can get a list of the merchants in view.

Nearby merchants panel image

What do you think?

This month also saw us welcome a new contributor, Trigger, who has been refactoring the code base and making things a little more manageable and modular - important, but unglamorous work!

Credits

Thanks to everyone who continues to contribute to the project:

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.

  • Help improve or maintain our code. Check out our GitHub Team and hop into our Matrix Space.

  • Consider a donation to the project:

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