how do i list my venue on this app?
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the feed comes from openstreetmap every 24 hours
OSM tagging as follows:
currency:XBT - Bitcoin the currency accepted payment:lightning - Lightning accepted as a payment method payment:lightningnfc - Lightning NFC accepted as a payment method - bolt card payment:onchain - Onchain accepted as a payment method
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New tagging regime:
Tagging is now:
currency:XBT=yes
payment:bitcoin=onchain;lightning; lightningnfc
Pick one or more.
If you're not sure what the payment methods are, then just use:
payment:bitcoin=yes
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Great I'll remove payment:bitcoin and just use currency:XBT and payment:lightning for some of my listings I'm maintaining which are really lightning only.
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Currently, payment:XBT will display as on-chain.
We're currently debating the the OSM community on the most appropriate tagging regime: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/bitcoin-tagging/2302.
I would like to see onchain being explicit using the payment:onchain tag.
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currency : XBT
  • Bitcoin the currency accepted
payment : lightning
  • Lightning accepted as a payment method
payment : lightning_contactless
  • Lightning contactless accepted as a payment method - bolt card
payment : onchain
  • Onchain accepted as a payment method
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What is the difference between the tickers BTC and XBT? BTC the asset and XBT the currency? Is the XBT notation widely used?
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XBT is the official ISO currency code for Bitcoin. Interchangable with BTC, which is kinda the 'unofficial' but widely used code.
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Thanks. Wasn't aware it was standardized.
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Very basic web site now up at btcmap.org.
If you're a web designer get in touch and we can make it pretty.
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Anyone know where this app pulls it's feeds from and how you can add businesses?
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Here's the Tweet that kicked off the Twitter thread where this was first shared:
I'm on a bit of a mission to properly tag vendors accepting #bitcoin! in @openstreetmap. This enables other apps to use this data, such as BTC Map https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.btcmap/ and others.

And then here's the Tweet from the project's Twitter account that kicked off another Twitter thread:
We're on a mission to get merchants that accept #bitcoin properly tagged within @openstreetmap and beautifully visualised within FOSS mobile and web apps.
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This is blank, currently, but their website will show the map.
Web app coming soon to btcmap.org
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check out oshi app. just got some coffee there
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interesting, is it easy to find places integrated with oshi?
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Oshi looks like a private data set. There are others taking this approach too. Our approach is for the BTC Apps and the data to be FOSS.
Hi guys - I'm one of the guys behind the BTC Map initiative.
The mobile app has been around a while, but we are now looking to spark a grass roots initiative to get venues properly tagged and we are looking for contributors to get a web app and an iOS app going too.
AMA!
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Is this basically a crowd-sourced wiki like app for bitcoin accepting businesses?
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Basically, yes. Using OSM as the database, which is essentially a map wiki.
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