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.

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. 



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The solution has many problems (records get outdated, some shops require custom app, it's somewhat tricky to enter data, etc), but I don't really see how this could be done better in a major way?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.

nout

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BTC Map Launched: Countries Leaderboard

Why not just grab results from Google or Meetup? In the world of automation and api’s why leverage something like openstreetmap? It should be leveraging all platforms and aggregators regardless, hence 🚩 leaving communities out.