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Global Metrics 🌍️

  • Total Bitcoin-accepting merchants: 26,073 -> 26,575 (+502 +1.9%)
  • Total Bitcoin-accepting places: 28,572 -> 29,061 (+489 +1.7%)
  • Recently verified (1y): 16,990 -> 16,860 (-130 -0.8%)
  • Avg. days since last verification: 402 -> 418 (+16 +4.0%)
  • Merchants boosted: 11 -> 14 (+3 +27.3%)
  • Total boost duration: 390 -> 1,605 (+1,215 +311.5%) days
  • Comments posted: 34 -> 25 (-9 -26.5%)

Graph showing merchant adoption over the last month

Graph showing merchant adoption over the previous 3 months

Find current stats over at the BTC Map Dashboard.

Note: the charts above track merchant growth only. The total places metric includes merchants plus exchanges/ATMs.

Country Activity 📈

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

Name Total Created Updated Deleted Comments
🇺🇸 United States of America 663 378 242 36 7
🇯🇵 Japan 133 9 118 6 0
🇿🇦 South Africa 76 30 39 7 0
🇨🇭 Switzerland 49 3 34 12 0
🇮🇹 Italy 48 12 29 6 1
🇧🇷 Brazil 42 6 32 3 1
🇨🇴 Colombia 41 9 32 0 0
🇫🇷 France 39 2 34 3 0
🇹🇭 Thailand 34 10 22 2 0
🇩🇪 Germany 28 6 18 2 2

Community Activity 📈

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

Name Total Created Updated Deleted Comments
🇯🇵 Tokyo Bitcoin Base 103 6 93 4 0
🇺🇸 BitPlebs Los Angeles 68 30 37 1 0
🇨🇴 Satoshi Team - Antioquia 52 23 29 0 0
🇨🇴 Cafeteros Bitcoiners 42 13 29 0 0
🇹🇭 BOB Space 24 5 17 2 0
🇺🇸 Indy Bitcoin 24 2 1 21 0

New Communities 🫂

We welcomed the following new communities over the past month.

We now have 686+ Communities scattered across the planet. 🌎️

Active Taggers 🏆

Here are this month’s most active contributors adding and updating merchant data on BTC Map.

📣 Shoutout to the top 3:

  • 🥇 Rockedf with 272 edits
  • 🥈 RoseBTCmap with 257 edits
  • 🥉 Comino with 155 edits
Name Total Edits Created Updated Deleted
Rockedf 272 233 39 0
RoseBTCmap 257 187 70 0
Comino 155 17 122 16
ch0meji 68 8 57 3
geomaster01 59 0 59 0
Satoshi Team 52 23 29 0
BTCGVA 40 3 20 17
mrjonesza 39 31 2 6
rimugu 36 0 36 0
wikimax 29 0 29 0
Ja Pe 25 0 1 24
ArancioneMilano 20 19 1 0
tbbsatoko 19 1 14 4
Hans Jürgen von Lengerke 19 0 18 1
GA_Kevin 18 0 18 0

Find current and historical stats on the Tagger Leaderboard.

Web App 🕸️

July saw 22 merged PRs on the Web App, led by the new omnisearch experience.

  • Omnisearch – you can now search places by address and other OSM tags, with results ranked by their localized names. Search as you know it is gone; everything is one box.
  • Search bar refactor – the desktop floating search bar is now a button facade that expands on demand, and the input no longer scrambles your text while typing.
  • RTL text on the map – Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian labels now render correctly.
  • Community icons – now served from the new v4 area image endpoint.
  • Short URLs – support for community short links.
  • Beta APK downloads – the Android beta APK can now be grabbed straight from the Apps page.
  • Apps page – Trustless iOS wallet added, and Club Orange joined as a sponsor on the supporters page.
  • Dutch translations – thanks to Edwin Comino / LighthouseFR.
  • Fixes – the ?outdated URL query filter works again, community area pages got a shared loader, and the Netlify _redirects move unbreaks deep links.

Infrastructure ⚙️

Another big month on the API with 47 commits. Most of the effort went into a new wallet subsystem:

  • Wallet xpub tracking – the API now tracks wallet xpubs for internal transparency, with a balance and history cache so the dashboard reads from a snapshot instead of probing Electrum on every request.
  • Electrum server management – Electrum endpoints moved from a single config string to a dedicated table managed by four new RPCs with priority ordering and soft deletion, plus an experimental SPKI-pinned client for self-hosted servers with self-signed certs.
  • Platform stats – the API now reports which platforms and client apps call us over 1/7/30-day windows, helping prioritize resources and spot anomalies.
  • Omnisearch backend – search now covers areas as well as places, matching on address and any other OSM tag, with sane ranking and pagination.
  • Events – new update_event RPC with PATCH semantics, area_id and cron_schedule exposed on event queries, and admins can now fetch events.
  • Config – boost element prices moved from hardcoded columns to a configurable JSON list, and CORS config moved into the database.
  • Maintenance – clippy 1.96 lints fixed and strum::AsRefStr derived across the DB layer.

Dashboard

The internal dashboard gained platform stats, wallet stats with a snapshot timestamp, and a per-wallet transaction popup.

Event Admin

A new internal tool was born: Event Admin is a small static site that lets admins browse events directly on the map, rename them inline from the marker popup, and open a full edit form – all via the API.

CLI

The btcmap-cli gained wrappers for the new wallet and Electrum server RPCs, an event update-event command, and type-specific search commands.

Android App 🤖

Some important refactoring enabled us to shed roughly 500 lines of code, simplifying the structure. We also worked on:

  • Viewport caches – merchants, events, and exchanges each got a dedicated cache built on a shared ViewportCache base, with proper async queries, antimeridian bounds-splitting, and id-based deduplication. This also fixed merchants drifting out of sync with the viewport.
  • Controllers – map setup, place/event/exchange selection, search, and location logic were each extracted into their own controller.
  • Fixes – no more empty map viewport on startup or filter switches, and no map blink when sync completes after the bundled places import.
  • Area screen – upcoming events now show as clickable cards with icons, one-off events are listed too, and everything sorts by date. Phuket’s area screen got a website URL override.
  • Activity feed – the local activity feed can now be filtered by area and period.
  • Publishing – a publish.sh helper streamlines cutting new builds. A new release is on the runway.

Analytics 📊

Our July website stats are as follows:

Graph showing website analytics over the last month

Check out the BTC Map Analytics Dashboard. Track our growth and see where users are coming from in real time.

Credits 🫶

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the project this month, including the Shadowy Supertaggers:

  • Hannes / escapedcat – omnisearch on both web and API, search UX refactors and fixes, RTL map rendering, v4 area images, and the outdated-filter fix.
  • Igor Bubelov – wallet xpub tracking, Electrum server RPCs, platform stats, events API work, the Android MapFragment refactor, dashboard wallet/platform stats, the new Event Admin tool, CLI updates, and admin RPC rename.
  • Nathan / dadofsambonzuki – apps page additions, Lightning identifier migration, Club Orange sponsorship, and admin app maintenance.
  • Edwin Comino / LighthouseFR – Dutch translations.
  • Dave Day – admin app deploy workflow.
  • Rockedf, RoseBTCmap, Comino, and all the active taggers listed above.

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 donating to the project here.