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:

Matúš Sekerák who made his first contribution to the Web App with this Mobile formatting PR.
Jim Netskas who also made his first contribution to the Web App with this Humanised Last Verified Date PR.
Juan Colchete from the Brazilian community organisation UAIBIT who has been making a dent in the Community backlog.

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.