July 2025 Update

Global Metrics#

Here are the top stats from the last period:

• Total Bitcoin-accepting merchants: 16,686 → 17,595 (+909 +5.2%)
• Recently verified (1y): 8,077 → 9,222 (+1145 +14.2%)
• Avg. days since last verification: 410 → 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%)

Find current stats over at the 👉 BTC Map Dashboard.

Moneybadger, Bootlegger and SA 🇿🇦#

Moneybadger - the payment processor behind Pick 'n Pay - rolled out Bitcoin-payments to all 89 of Bootlegger Coffee Co's stores.

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Additionally, the Moneybadger team did some much needed maintenance on the Pick 'n Pay stores, which resulted in South Africa 🇿🇦 jumping to the top of the Country Leaderboard!

<p align="center"> <img src="https://blog.btcmap.org/posts/2025-07/leaderboard.png" alt="Country Leaderboard"/> </p>

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:

• Bitcoin Aves 🇬🇭
• Bitcoin Academy Club 🇵🇹
• Bitbiashara 🇰🇪
• 21 Bitcoin Academy 🇨🇷
• Bitcoin Comox Valley 🇨🇦
• Fortal Bitcoin 🇧🇷
• Bitcoin Pipa 🇧🇷
• Bitcoin MOC 🇧🇷
• Jednadvacet Prostějov 🇨🇿
• 21 Banská Bystrica 🇸🇮
• 21 Stropkov 🇸🇮
• Bitcoin Viçosa 🇧🇷
• Indy Bitcoin 🇺🇸
• Fornelli 🇮🇹
• Bitcoin Research 🇧🇴

Just look at that geographic distribution! 🥰

We now have 564 Communities stretching across the planet.

Updates to Communities and Countries Pages#

Speaking of Communities, we'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:

• Comino
• Hannes
• siriusbig
• Igor Bubelov
• Nathan Day
• Rockedf
• Saunter

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.