The map, in numbers.
Every site we checked, what stopped us, and what they accept. The landscape inputs below drive the road, the store and the sun.
Landscape inputs
- Reach (0.4840)
- 121 reachable of 250 merchants ·
count(status=crawled ∧ ag≥1) / count(all) - BTC sun (0.5800)
- 4 BTC-accepting merchants · mean privacy score 0.5800 ·
mean(rowBtcPrivacyScore) over BTC-accepting merchants- row score blends btc grade/4, btc_any (+0.15), Lightning/ecash pay methods (+0.12), on-chain (+0.04), btcpriv tags (+0.06–0.08), capped at 1
Bitcoin grade (all sites)
Ungraded (not graded) is distinct from grade 0.
Agent access (ag)
| ag | Sites |
|---|---|
| ag 0 | 84 |
| ag 1 | 61 |
| ag 2 | 65 |
| ag 3 | 0 |
| ag unknown | 40 |
Payment methods (observed)
| Method | Online | In-store | Unscoped |
|---|---|---|---|
| Card | 3 | 2 | 15 |
| Gift card | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| PayPal | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Buy now pay later | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| ACH | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Bitcoin on-chain | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Apple Pay | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Crypto | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Google Pay | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| USDC | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ethereum | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Cash App | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| HSA / FSA | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Litecoin | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| USDT | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Lightning | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Bitcoin-accepting merchants
- Coincards.com coincards.com BTC –
- CryptoCloaks cryptocloaks.com BTC 3/4
- Start9 start9.com BTC 3/4
- The Bitcoin Company thebitcoincompany.com BTC –
| Merchant | Status | Agent access | BTC grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| CryptoCloaks · ↗ cryptocloaks.com |
Reachable | 2 | BTC 3/4 |
| Start9 · ↗ start9.com |
Reachable | 2 | BTC 3/4 |