October 2025 Update

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October 2025 Update

Global Metrics 🌍️

Here are the top stats from the last period (01-10-2025 → 31-10-2025):

  • Total Bitcoin-accepting merchants: 18,249 → 18,541 (+292 +1.6%)
  • Recently verified (1y): 9,691 → 9,801 (+110 +1.1%)
  • Avg. days since last verification: 407 → 414 (+7 +1.7%)
  • Merchants boosted: 16 → 7 (-9 -56%)
  • Total boost duration: 2169 → 720 days (-1449 -67%)
  • Comments posted: 56 → 39 (-17 -30%)

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:

Country Total Created Updated Deleted Comments
🇧🇷 Brazil 403 33 368 2 0
🇸🇻 El Salvador 200 40 146 14 0
🇮🇹 Italy 152 17 131 4 6
🇺🇸 United States of America 142 42 97 3 0
🇧🇬 Bulgaria 140 4 120 16 0
🇹🇭 Thailand 135 32 96 7 3
🇿🇦 South Africa 135 15 117 3 0
🇫🇷 France 95 9 85 1 0
🇳🇱 Netherlands 91 12 61 18 4
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 86 9 59 18 5

Community Activity 📈

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

Community Total Created Updated Deleted Comments
🇧🇷 Bitcoin é aqui! 139 2 137 0 0
🇸🇻 Bitcoin Coast 104 26 75 3 0
🇿🇦 Bitcoin Ekasi 54 4 49 1 0
🇬🇧 London Bitcoin Space 44 5 27 12 4
🇿🇦 Bitcoin Victoria Falls 46 1 45 0 0

New Communities 🫂

We welcomed A LOT of new communities over the past month, largely courtesy of a new contributor Juan Colchete from the Brazilian community organisation UAIBIT:

We now have 610 Communities from all across the planet. 🤯

Preparing for Square Onslaught 👀

As is now widely known, Square will be enabling Bitcoin payments for their US merchants from November 10th!

We have been working hard behind the scenes on an integration that enables their merchants to be displayed on BTC Map and up-streamed to OpenStreetMap (after verification by our Shadowy Supertaggers!).

Square have circa. 4M merchants in the US alone and just a 0.5% uptake will more than double the number of places on BTC Map.

MoneyBadger Adds 650,000 Merchants 🤯

If you remember, we covered MoneyBadger enabling 31,000 merchants in last month’s blog, but they’ve outdone themselves this month by adding 650,000 merchants in South Africa 🇿🇦 via their ’Scan to Pay’ integration.

We’re gonna need a bigger boat! 👀

New Features

  • The Web App now shows deleted Merchant Pages (with warnings! 🧟) rather than harsh 404s. This helps with old links out in the wild and these pages are of course only navigable to directly.

Credits

We’ve had a few new contributors the period and so please give a warm welcome to:

And 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.

  • Consider a zapping this note or making a donation to the to the project here.


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