Bitcoin
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Bitcoin (Bitcoin on Wikipedia) is a cryptocurrency: a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is upheld and maintained not by a central authority, such as a government or bank, but by those who participate in the network.
Additional general information can be found at https://bitcoin.org.
Donating Bitcoin
The OpenStreetMap project also accepts Bitcoin (XBT) donations.[1][2]
Mapping Payment Infrastructure
Key:currency
- currency:XBT=yes Bitcoin is accepted/dispensed.
- currency:XBT=no Bitcoin is not accepted/dispensed.
- currency:others=no Add this tag if all accepted/dispensed currencies have been added to the feature, all other currencies which have not been explicitly tagged are treated as "not accepted".
Please use currency:XBT=*. "XBT" is ISO 4217 compliant. Do not use currency:bitcoin=* or currency:BTC=*.
Key:payment
- payment:onchain=yes Add this tag if Bitcoin on-chain payments are accepted.
- payment:lightning=yes Add this tag if Bitcoin Lightning payments are accepted.
- payment:lightning_contactless=yes Add this tag if Bitcoin Lightning contactless payments are accepted.
payment:bitcoin=yesThis key is outdated. Please don't use this anymore.
For more examples, see our wiki page on Cryptocurrency.
