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BTC Map Launched: Countries Leaderboard btcmap.org/countries/leaderboard

2449 sats \ 21 comments \ @nout 11 Mar bitcoin

77 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 12 Mar

Cool! Bookmarked it for future. I will try to pin as many places as possible when I'll be on the world tour. #414561 Also, if I can suggest, it would habe been better if there's some kind of verification for the places can be done. Like upvoting, zapping if the place really accepts bitcoin.

77 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 11 Mar

Wow, Cuba with 26 locations ! I didn't expected that. Well done.

21 sats \ 8 replies \ @Car 12 Mar freebie

Always hilarious Austin or Texas never seems to exist on these things. This is why focusing on your backyard, then state, then country, then world is the way. The outright ignoring people, companies and/or city’s and states existing in the ecosystem is always sus to me when I see it.

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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @nout OP 12 Mar

Volunteers enter those records manually to Open Street Maps. Btcmap is just displaying it. It's public open data. So someone in Texas would have to do it and keep it up to date, that's all that's missing 😉

There are many communities around the world that keep the details up to date. For example in Germany the community organizes here https://einundzwanzig.space/

21 sats \ 6 replies \ @Car 12 Mar freebie

So you’re saying unless you have Bitcoin in your name you get left out. Because I’m seeing results of places in Texas that show up. If that is the case, these databases don’t scale properly.

Human curation for a human movement is the way.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @nout OP 12 Mar freebie

No, that's not how it works. It doesn't guess that you accept bitcoin based on the name.

People (anyone) have to go to https://www.openstreetmap.org and do the human curation - e.g. add metadata/tags to your business and select whether you accept onchain, lightning, etc.

So for example you can create account on https://www.openstreetmap.org and add tags to any location in Texas that you want. Sort of like updating wikipedia. And then this will show up on btcmap (and also on other similar maps / applications that use the same base data from OSM)

53 sats \ 0 replies \ @beorange 11 Mar

How is the ranking calculated?

101 sats \ 1 reply \ @SqNr65 12 Mar

I've been to/called a bunch of these places in my city to go use Bitcoin and every single one turned out not to accept Bitcoin, the people didn't even know wtf I was talking about when I asked and I looked like an idiot, this site needs to get it's shit together

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taurus 12 Mar

Same! So I just deleted them from the list

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ch0k1 11 Mar

I am a BTCmap contributor so everyone who has/knows a business that isn't on the map and accepts Bitcoin - I can add it

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 11 Mar

Is the data for the Czech Republic correct? If so, I'm impressed with how a small country like that has so many places to spend Bitcoin.

64 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout OP 11 Mar

@hynek and other folks are doing some solid work there :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 11 Mar

this tool is really helpful

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sime 11 Mar

It has pretty deep Bitcoin roots.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 11 Mar

Looks like it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SaToSHiWoMaN 11 Mar outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.