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July 2025 Update

By BTC Map August 2, 2025 ยท Edited August 2, 2025
Closing in on 18k merchants and Moneybadger storming ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
July 2025 Update

Global Metrics

Here are the top stats from the last period:

  • Total Bitcoin-accepting merchants: 16,686 โ†’ 17,595 (+909 +5.2%)
  • Recently verified (1y): 8,077 โ†’ 9,222 (+1145 +14.2%)
  • Avg. days since last verification: 410 โ†’ 386 (-24 -5.6%)
  • Merchants boosted: 15 (-7 -31.8%)
  • Total boost duration: 2,940 days (+1,800 +158%)
  • Comments posted: 29 (+12 +70.6%)

Graph showing merchant adoption over the last quarter

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

Moneybadger, Bootlegger and SA ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Moneybadger - the payment processor behind Pick โ€™n Pay - rolled out Bitcoin-payments to all 89 of Bootlegger Coffee Coโ€™s stores.

Moneybadger Logo

Additionally, the Moneybadger team did some much needed maintenance on the Pick โ€™n Pay stores, which resulted in South Africa ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ jumping to the top of the Country Leaderboard!

Country Leaderboard

Welcome to our new Communities

We also made a dent in clearing our small backlog of community submissions and so please welcome the following new communities:

Just look at that geographic distribution! ๐Ÿฅฐ

We now have 564 Communities stretching across the planet.

Updates to Communities and Countries Pages

Speaking of Communities, weโ€™ve made the following community-focused tweaks to our web app.

  • Allow community pages to load without an initial stats report.

  • Show communities that have community orgs in the geographic section also.

  • Enable Communities to be part of more than one Community Organisation.

  • Add Population and KM^2 details to Community and Country Pages.

  • Dynamic Community Organisations - just tag the community with the gitgorg and it will appear.

  • Allow Community Orgs and Continents to be deep-linked.

  • Allow area tabs to be deep linked.

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 zapping this note or make a donation to the to the project here.

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