BTCMap: Mapping Bitcoin Acceptance
summary
BTCMap.org is a Bitcoin-only, open-source mapping platform built on OpenStreetMap with web and mobile apps and a new heatmap layer, and it lists about 14,000+ merchants worldwide driven by a community editing model. The project reports a 39% merchant growth year-over-year, about 55% of listings verified within 12 months, 442 active communities (backlog growing), and country hotspots like Brazil, El Salvador and Thailand; it works but depends on local verification to scale.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00BTCMap introduction
- 1:06Driving merchant adoption
- 3:31Holding vs spending Bitcoin
- 4:55Good money drives out bad
- 6:01Store of value vs medium of exchange
- 7:05Schrödinger’s adoption problem
- 8:29Merchant adoption via demand
- 9:56Solving merchant mapping
- 13:10BTCMap growth and communities
- 17:28Top Bitcoin communities
- 19:39How to support BTCMap
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