BTC Map - December 2025 Update

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:

• Comino
• Hannes
• Igor Bubelov
• Nathan Day
• Rockedf
• Saunter
• Mind09
• Rose
• Beinardus
• John Doe
• Trigger

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 or zapping this post!