BTC Map - December 2025 Update
2k new merchants, moar features, analytics and latest stats.
Global Metrics 🌍️
- Total Bitcoin-accepting merchants: 20,443 → 21,823 (+1,380 +6.8%)
- Recently verified (1y): 11,371 → 11,874 (+503 +4.4%)
- Avg. days since last verification: 396 → 392 (-4 -1.0%)
- Merchants boosted: 32 → 8 (-24 -75.0%)
- Total boost duration: 4,395 → 635 (-3,760 -85.6%) days
- Comments posted: 66 → 32 (-34 -51.5%)
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.
| Name | Total | Created | Updated | Deleted | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 United States of America | 1515 | 1193 | 302 | 20 | 13 |
| 🇸🇻 El Salvador | 168 | 10 | 146 | 12 | 1 |
| 🇰🇪 Kenya | 144 | 38 | 63 | 43 | 0 |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | 119 | 53 | 62 | 4 | 1 |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 96 | 3 | 91 | 2 | 1 |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | 59 | 22 | 30 | 7 | 3 |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | 57 | 11 | 44 | 2 | 1 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | 49 | 10 | 36 | 3 | 0 |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 46 | 4 | 38 | 4 | 0 |
| 🇨🇿 Czechia | 40 | 6 | 27 | 7 | 0 |
Community Activity 📈
Here are this month’s most active communities in terms of merchant data editing.
| Name | Total | Created | Updated | Deleted | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇰🇪 Bitcoin Dada Nairobi | 134 | 29 | 62 | 43 | 0 |
| 🇰🇪 The Core | 134 | 29 | 62 | 43 | 0 |
| 🇰🇪 Bitcoin Nairobi | 126 | 21 | 62 | 43 | 0 |
| 🇸🇻 Bitcoin Berlín SV | 123 | 1 | 112 | 10 | 0 |
| 🇰🇪 Afribit Kibera | 65 | 12 | 36 | 17 | 0 |
| 🇺🇸 Colorado Bitcoin | 54 | 21 | 29 | 4 | 2 |
| 🇺🇸 BitPlebs Los Angeles | 55 | 46 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
New Communities 🫂
We welcomed the following new communities over the past month.
- 🇫🇷 Bitcoin Calais
- 🇦🇺 Avalon Bitcoiner's
- 🇩🇪 Einundzwanzig Rottweil
- 🇺🇸 Columbus Bitcoin
- 🇵🇹 Bitcoin Apes Cascais
- 🇨🇭 Bitcoin Geneva
- 🇺🇸 Rhode Island Bitcoiners
We now have 622 Communities scattered across the planet. 🌎️
Analytics 📊
In mid-December we enabled a self-hosted instance of Umami so that we can start to build-up some privacy-preserving analytics in our Web App. This will help inform decisions we make on UX and feature priority and give us a better insight into the global distribution of our users.
All of this data is of course free and open-source and so check it out the btcmap.org analytics here!
December stats are incomplete (running for 9.5 days), but you can find the December Analytics Dashboard here.
Pro-rated for the month, that gives us:
- 43.6k Visitors
- 48.9k Visits
- 1.2M Views
Not bad at all and probably puts us among the most visited bitcoin websites. We'd love to hear from others re user numbers to get a relative feel.
Web App 🕸️
With around 50 PRs for the month, there is still no stopping Hannes as he continues to improve the Web App one line of code at a time. Notable changes this month:
- Refactored Tagger Leaderboard by Nathan now gives multiple time periods and uses a searchable & sortable TanStack Table, bringing the UX inline with other areas of the app.
- Even moar performance improvements and caching fixes by Hannes.
- Moar structural refactoring by Trigger
- Improved search and category filtering by Hannes.
- Better swipe controls on mobile by Hannes.
- Better visibility for Boosted Merchants on main map view (excluded from pin clustering) by Hannes.
- Better a11y accessibility with aria-label attributes for buttons and links by Hannes.
- Svelte v5 migration prep by Hannes.
- Updated map nav icons and additional map tile styles, including the new dark mode default Carto Dark Matter by Hannes.
Credits 🫶
Thanks to everyone who continues to contribute to the project:
Support Us 🤝
There are many ways in which you can support us:
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Become a Shadowy Supertagger and help maintain your local area or pitch-in with the never-ending global effort.
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Help improve or maintain our code. Check out our GitHub Team and hop into our Matrix Space.
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Consider donating to the project here or zapping this post!