21 sats \ 8 replies \ @Car 12 Mar \ on: BTC Map Launched: Countries Leaderboard bitcoin
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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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/
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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)
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How do you find that the little food truck accepts Bitcoin over lightning by Googling if the food truck doesn't even have a website? (In the US food trucks probably have websites, but definitely not in the rest of the world)
I'm still not following on your argument or how do you propose this to be done?
The solution has many problems (records get outdated, some shops require custom app, it's somewhat tricky to enter data, etc), but I don't really see how this could be done better in a major way?
The communities I know had to manually call the businesses to do the verification (or chat them over WhatsApp, which is the main business channel in South America).
The work is done by individuals, the btcmap team as far as I can tell only provides tooling support and the app.
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Than it negates everything it’s trying to do by this exclusion. Not sure how you’re missing this Nout? It’s not accurate or a leaderboard. It’s LARPing as one.
They should be onboarding countries and other territories, not promoting it as something it’s not.
btcdir.org does this human and user curation/submission much more effectively
because it’s just that a directory.
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This sounds like a great extra reason for me to come to Austin so we can figure it out together over some nice lunch :)
Part of this may be my lack of sleep recently - my 6 week old son is not yet understanding time preference and demands immediate satisfaction every couple hours.
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