Where do I find Bitcoin communities near me?

On the Bitácora.btc map. Allow location or search by city, merchant or community. The globe counts Latin America first; below, the worldwide BTC Map total. Zooming reveals verified merchant and community pins.

How do I add my community or shop to the map?

On the map, drop a pin, add name, description, socials and a logo. Publish the CARGA-XXXX code on your site or socials; a scraper verifies it and lights the orange star. Two public networks or a rating ≥ 4 with three votes also verify.

Is Bitácora.btc a company or an exchange?

Neither. It is a community logbook with no custody of funds. Education, a map and public Bitcoin-network data. We do not sell accounts or hold your keys.

Does Bitácora.btc clone BTC Map?

No. It is not a clone. The own overlay is the listings submitted and verified here. The other shops and communities come federated from BTC Map.

Is there a Bitcoin map for Uruguay and the rest of Latam?

Yes. Bitácora.btc started in Colonia del Sacramento and covers Latin America: Montevideo, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Santiago, Asunción, Bogotá, Mexico City and more. Consciencia Bitcoin is on the map; other shops come from BTC Map and verified submissions.

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Welcome to Bitácora.btc

The meeting point where communities and people connect with financial freedom.

What is Bitácora.btc?

Bitácora.btc is an open, collaborative space for every bitcoiner community in the region, and for those taking their first steps who want to be part of this ecosystem.

It is a living roadmap, an interactive map, and a territorial and human connection point to make nodes, projects, educational initiatives, and gathering places visible across Latin America.

Driven by Consciencia Bitcoin & LATAM Cripto Mom

Bitácora.btc is an initiative developed within Consciencia Bitcoin, a community project that started in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, backed by LATAM Cripto Mom — a platform dedicated to family financial education, Web3 outreach, and digital sovereignty in a simple, empathetic, and accessible way.

Our purpose is to build a solid bridge between bitcoiner philosophy and society at large, promoting a real understanding of the economic, cultural, and personal paradigm shift this movement represents.

What will you find on this interactive map?

Visibility and Connection: Discover which communities and nodes are active near you and across the continent.
Open Community: A space where ecosystem pioneers meet people and families taking their first step.
Self-custody and Sovereignty: Tools, information, and resources to move toward true financial freedom grounded in education.
Your Starting Point: Find the right place to learn, share experiences, and build networks of value.

Add your community to the Bitácora

If you lead a node, organize local meetups, or are part of a bitcoiner initiative, this is your space too. Join the Bitácora, mark your point on the map, and help more people connect with the future of finance and digital sovereignty.

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FAQ

What is Bitácora.btc?: Bitácora.btc is an open collaborative space for bitcoiner communities in Latin America: an interactive map of nodes, Bitcoin-accepting merchants, events and education. It is run by Consciencia Bitcoin from Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, with LATAM Cripto Mom.
Where do I find Bitcoin communities near me?: On the Bitácora.btc map. Allow location or search by city, merchant or community. The globe counts Latin America first; below, the worldwide BTC Map total. Zooming reveals verified merchant and community pins.
How do I add my community or shop to the map?: On the map, drop a pin, add name, description, socials and a logo. Publish the CARGA-XXXX code on your site or socials; a scraper verifies it and lights the orange star. Two public networks or a rating ≥ 4 with three votes also verify.
Is Bitácora.btc a company or an exchange?: Neither. It is a community logbook with no custody of funds. Education, a map and public Bitcoin-network data. We do not sell accounts or hold your keys.
Does Bitácora.btc clone BTC Map?: No. It is not a clone. The own overlay is the listings submitted and verified here. The other shops and communities come federated from BTC Map.
Is there a Bitcoin map for Uruguay and the rest of Latam?: Yes. Bitácora.btc started in Colonia del Sacramento and covers Latin America: Montevideo, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Santiago, Asunción, Bogotá, Mexico City and more. Consciencia Bitcoin is on the map; other shops come from BTC Map and verified submissions.

Bitcoin throughout history

Protocol, community and gatherings: what happened, who showed up, and what it meant for people who use and defend Bitcoin.

31 Oct 2008
White Paper
Satoshi Nakamoto publishes Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. No company, no CEO: nine pages describe peer-to-peer electronic cash with no bank in the middle. The button opens that original PDF on bitcoin.org.
For the Bitcoin world. The blueprint exists. Cypherpunk talk becomes a design anyone can audit, copy, and later run.
Read the White Paper
3 Jan 2009
Genesis block
The chain starts. The coinbase embeds The Times headline about a second bank bailout. The button opens block 0 on mempool.space: you will see that headline inside the coinbase transaction.
For the Bitcoin world. Bitcoin is a reply to 2008, not only software. Issuance is not a committee vote; the protest is carved into the first block.
View the genesis block
12 Jan 2009
First transaction
Satoshi sends 10 BTC to Hal Finney. No card network, no SWIFT: two keys and a block. The button opens that transaction on mempool.space (hash f4184f…): inputs, outputs and the confirming block.
For the Bitcoin world. Proof that P2P money works. If Hal could receive it, the rest of the network could too.
View the first transaction
22 Nov 2009
Bitcointalk
Satoshi moves the forum from bitcoin.org to Bitcointalk. Code is debated there, the first meetups are coordinated, and the tribe’s language is born: HODL, pizza, no-KYC. The button opens the forum: historic threads, the development board and Bitcoin’s oldest public square.
For the Bitcoin world. Bitcoin is not only a repo: it is people talking. Without that forum there is no social consensus or memory of why 21 million was left untouched.
Go to Bitcointalk
22 May 2010
Bitcoin Pizza Day
On 18 May 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz posts on bitcointalk: he will pay 10,000 BTC for pizza. Jeremy Sturdivant (jercos) takes the deal, orders two large Papa John’s in Jacksonville and has them delivered. On 22 May Laszlo pays on-chain: the first widely known purchase of a physical good with Bitcoin. Those 10,000 coins, mined by Laszlo himself, are a fortune today; in 2010 they were tens of dollars. Every 22 May the network marks the date. The button opens PizzaDAO: the Global Pizza Party, free pizza in hundreds of cities, a chapter map and how to join.
For the Bitcoin world. Bitcoin leaves the forum and is spent. Folklore of not selling cheap is born — and so is circulating, not only holding. PizzaDAO turns the story into a worldwide street party: the same gesture, no custodian.
Go to PizzaDAO
Sep 2012
Bitcoin Foundation
In September 2012 the Bitcoin Foundation launches in the U.S.: Gavin Andresen, Jon Matonis, Peter Vessenes and others. Mission: standardize, protect and promote. It pays developers, talks to regulators and runs conferences. The button opens bitcoinfoundation.org: the nonprofit’s page, its history, and the live question of whether Bitcoin needs a “face”.
For the Bitcoin world. First institutional layer. Journalists and banks finally had someone to call — and the network saw the risk of centralizing the voice of a protocol with no CEO.
Visit Bitcoin Foundation
28 Nov 2012
First halving
The block reward falls from 50 to 25 BTC, as written. Nobody votes for a debasement. The button opens block 210,000 on mempool.space: the first that pays 25 BTC to the miner.
For the Bitcoin world. Monetary policy is credible because it is code. Predictable scarcity becomes the core argument for saving in sats.
View block 210,000
Nov 2013
Bitcoin Argentina NGO and LABITCONF
Rodolfo Andragnes and other pioneers start ONG Bitcoin Argentina (bitcoin.ar): education, public advocacy and scam prevention, nonprofit. In November 2013 LABITCONF opens in Buenos Aires — still the longest-running Bitcoin conference and Latam’s #1 gathering. The button opens labitconf.com: upcoming dates, speakers and why the region meets there.
For the Bitcoin world. Latam stops looking only at Silicon Valley. It has a home: an NGO that teaches and a conference that, since 2013, is the living room for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking bitcoiners.
Go to LABITCONF
9 Jul 2016
Second halving
Reward to 12.5 BTC. Industrial mining, the 2013 boom and crash are already history; the market is global. The button opens block 420,000 on mempool.space, the first with a 12.5 BTC subsidy.
For the Bitcoin world. Bitcoin survives a full cycle. It is no longer a niche experiment; it reads as a scarce asset.
View block 420,000
24 Aug 2017
SegWit
Segregated Witness activates as a soft fork after the block-size war. More useful capacity, signatures set aside. The button opens BIP 141 on GitHub: the spec (witness, discount, why it is a soft fork).
For the Bitcoin world. The network can upgrade without a CEO. The chain that refused a forced split wins. Lightning and healthier fees become possible.
Read BIP 141
2018
Lightning mainnet
Payment channels on top of Bitcoin: instant, cheap, without handing keys to a custodian. The button opens lightning.network: what the protocol is, how a channel opens, and why it is not another coin.
For the Bitcoin world. Bitcoin is not only digital gold. You can pay for coffee in sats. Medium of exchange, not just a vault.
Explore Lightning
2019
Bitcoin Beach
In El Zonte, El Salvador, Mike Peterson and local leaders (including Roman Martínez) start Bitcoin Beach: the first well-documented circular economy — pupusas, surf and wages in sats, no banks. An anonymous donor seeds the fund. The button opens bitcoinbeach.com: the town, the merchant map and how the model is copied on other beaches.
For the Bitcoin world. Adoption leaves the slide deck. A town without bank accounts shows you can live on Bitcoin. Two years later that experiment helps push legal-tender law.
Visit Bitcoin Beach
11 May 2020
Third halving
Reward to 6.25 BTC, mid-pandemic. Public companies start putting BTC on the treasury. The button opens block 630,000 on mempool.space, the first with 6.25 BTC.
For the Bitcoin world. The story shifts from internet money to corporate reserve. MicroStrategy and others legitimize institutional hodl.
View block 630,000
4–5 Jun 2021
Bitcoin Conference Miami
BTC Inc stages in Miami the largest Bitcoin conference yet. Nayib Bukele appears on video and says El Salvador will send a legal-tender bill. Jack Mallers (Strike) is on stage. The button opens b.tc/conference: the conference cycle (Miami, Nashville, Vegas) that turned Bitcoin into a stadium event.
For the Bitcoin world. The community leaves the classroom and walks into Wynwood. A president uses that stage to rewrite a monetary constitution: the meetup became geopolitics.
See Bitcoin Conference
7 Sep 2021
El Salvador
Bitcoin becomes legal tender. First nation to place it beside the dollar. The button opens Reuters coverage of the announcement: the decree, the start date and the regional context.
For the Bitcoin world. Bitcoin enters geopolitics. Circular economies, sats tourism, and the live debate: state adoption versus individual freedom.
Read how it was adopted
16–18 Nov 2021
Adopting Bitcoin
San Salvador hosts Adopting Bitcoin: a builders’ conference (Lightning, circularity, education) in the first legal-tender country. Run by La Crypta / the Bitcoin Beach circle. The button opens adoptingbitcoin.org: 2021–2025 editions, an implementers’ agenda, not a celebrity one.
For the Bitcoin world. Not a Miami after-party: it is the people who run nodes, teach in schools (Mi Primer Bitcoin) and get paid in sats. Latam exports a method, not only a story.
Go to Adopting Bitcoin
14 Nov 2021
Taproot
Schnorr, MAST, better privacy: complex contracts look like a normal payment. The button opens BIP 341 on GitHub: script path, key path, and why a Taproot spend looks like a simple signature.
For the Bitcoin world. More tools without asking permission. Later, inscriptions and new uses; immediately, a chain harder to fingerprint and censor.
Read BIP 341
Oct 2022
Plan ₿ Lugano
Lugano (Switzerland) launches Plan ₿: the city accepts BTC and USDT, teaches in schools and runs a high-signal European conference. The button opens planb.lugano.ch: the municipal plan, the agenda, and how a city — not a distressed state — calls itself a bitcoin city.
For the Bitcoin world. Another adoption path: not El Salvador, not an ETF. A wealthy municipality using Bitcoin as civic infrastructure. The community map gains a node in the Alps.
See Plan ₿ Lugano
8 Nov 2022
Satsconf
São Paulo hosts the first Satsconf: an only-Bitcoin (not “crypto”) conference that becomes Brazil’s big gathering. Lightning, education and sovereignty in Portuguese. The button opens satsconf.com.br: São Paulo Bitcoin Week, speakers and tickets.
For the Bitcoin world. Brazil is no longer just exchange volume. It has its own bitcoiner square, in its language, beside LABITCONF. The Portuguese-speaking community gets a stadium.
Go to Satsconf
10 Jan 2024
US spot ETFs
The SEC approves Bitcoin spot ETFs. Wall Street can buy the asset without touching a wallet. The button opens Gary Gensler’s official statement (10 Jan 2024): what was approved and the reminder that it is not an endorsement of the asset.
For the Bitcoin world. Huge inflows — and “not your keys, not your coins.” For bitcoiners: mass access yes, sovereignty no. Price is no longer only a crypto-exchange story.
Read the SEC statement
20 Apr 2024
Fourth halving
Reward to 3.125 BTC. The schedule toward 21 million continues; yearly issuance looks more like gold. The button opens block 840,000 on mempool.space, the first with a 3.125 BTC subsidy.
For the Bitcoin world. Miners under more pressure, hashrate that does not quit, and the mantra intact: nobody can print more. Saving in sats is measured in decades.
View block 840,000

Original White Paper (Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008)

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System · PDF

Read it here

Mining is not a money printer

Machines race to write down who paid whom. The winner gets bitcoin. It does not print cash.

Someone sends bitcoin. That payment waits, with others.

Bitcoin today

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Review

Five questions from what you already read in Learn. They come up at random.

Through the halving

Toward an open logbook

The goal is not a stack of tools. It is a logbook that can stand on its own, open to anyone, with no owner who can shut it down. Through the April 2028 halving we drop dependencies so the community can read, join and meet without asking a company for permission.

Already live. The map, the communities, contact and the public site are already live. What remains is independence: this should not need a middleman in order to exist.

Q1 · Data at home
Sep 2026 – Jan 2027
- Stop borrowing all network data: a node in Colonia reads the chain at home.
- If that node rests, the site stays up. The map and the community do not hang on a single machine.
How you can tell
- You can point to our own node and see that the site does not fall when it sleeps.
- No one from the public internet walks into that machine.
Q2 · It has to reach everyone
Feb 2027 – Jun 2027
- Grandparent, student or traveller can use the map on phone data, without a powerful device.
- If a price or news source fails, the rest of the logbook stays standing.
How you can tell
- On a simple phone the map is clear and usable.
- One vendor outage does not leave a blank page.
Q3 · Trust without papers
Jul 2027 – Nov 2027
- Adding a shop or a community is proven in public (your network, your site), not with an ID or a phone number.
- Anyone who wants can leave a small bitcoin signal. It is proof of presence, not an account and not a balance we keep.
How you can tell
- Still no KYC. Anyone who does not want bitcoin can still take part.
- Bitácora does not hold anyone’s money.
Q4 · It stands on its own
Dec 2027 – Apr 2028 · halving
- Contributions to the project in bitcoin, peer to peer, besides the usual QR.
- The logbook moves closer to the network: blocks and fees come from our node when it is on.
- What is on the map is community memory, not a product for sale.
How you can tell
- You can contribute with no card and no platform that can freeze funds.
- If our node rests, the site does not go dark: it uses a public backup.
Later · Sovereign guide
once the home node is steady · not scheduled
- A guide that explains Bitcoin, Bitácora, Consciencia Bitcoin and LATAM Cripto Mom in Spanish, Portuguese and English, in plain words, without leaving Satoshi: sovereignty, no custody, verify.
- It does not run on the same server as the map. It lives on the home node or it is not published. No OpenAI, Google or Groq.
- First an index of our own texts (white paper, conciencia, legal). Then, if there is a machine, a small model that cites those sources. No agent, no keys, no financial advice.
How you can tell
- If the guide goes dark, the map stays up.
- No third-party API in the chat. Anyone who skips it can still read the site.

Standing rule: you come in, you read and you take part with no account, no ID and no one holding your keys. Bitácora does not custody funds or sell access.

How it works and data sources

The desk. bitacora.btc is the node that ties you to the Bircoiner world. One chart: 1D / 1W / 1M / 6M lock the candle interval and do not change when you pan or zoom. Solid Binance-style candles; the heatmap is a weighted average of the ten largest perps, resampled to that interval.

Candles and price. Candles come native from Binance (1d / 1w / 1M; 6M is six monthlies). If Binance fails, OKX. Deep history (Coinbase + blockchain.info) is regrouped to the same interval so you can scroll to the start of the quote. The badge at the top right names the price source.

Liquidations. The map blends Binance, OKX, Bybit, Bitget, Hyperliquid, Gate, KuCoin, HTX, MEXC and Kraken. LiqMap engine (Coinglass-style): each candle seeds liquidations at entry × (1 ± 1/L) for 5×–125×, notionally weighted, Gaussian kernel. Each leverage decays with its half-life. When a wick trades through a price, that heat is wiped. Blue is thin; the peak is yellow-red. Weekly POC uses 52 weekly candles and does not move with zoom. Above spot: shorts; below: longs.

Spot ETFs. Net flows of US spot BTC ETFs (capital in/out) from Bitbo, session by session. Green in, red out. Not mempool: it is BTC the funds buy or sell in the cash market.

Globe. First look at the planet: white earth, Bitcoin-active countries in a soft orange wash, ₿ pins. Per-country counts (shops, communities, events) are aggregated server-side with Natural Earth 110m polygons. Click a country to open the map on its capital. Zoom Leaflet all the way out to return to the globe. Totals share the same React Query store as the map.

2D map. Leaflet + OSM. Shops and communities come from the local database (a BTC Map copy; no query on each visit). Our overlay adds what the community publishes. Canonical votes, hours, logos and socials live in public/data/map.csv (average + vote count; every star adds). Device GPS, not IP. Verified: two links (one public) or average ≥ 4 with ≥ 3 votes; Consciencia Bitcoin is on the founding allowlist. Captcha on publish.

Events. Community & Networking builds the calendar from Luma and other public platforms (Meetup and open calendars), filtered to Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr and related. Future dates only; online events show UTC on orange. Shares the map/events query with the globe.

Averages. Time-decay EMAs on close: 1D cyan, 1W violet, 1M lime, 6M fluorescent Bitcoin orange (#ff7a12) with a soft halo. Continuous curve; glow tightens on zoom so it does not cover candles.

Bitcoin network. Hashrate, difficulty and daily transactions from blockchain.info, compared with price. Hashrate is miner work; tx is chain activity. Live mempool and fees (mempool.space).

CLARITY. Yes/No price on Polymarket: “Clarity Act (H.R.3633) signed into law in 2026?”. That price is the implied probability the bill is signed in 2026.

Fear / greed. Daily Alternative.me index (CNN-style): 0–24 extreme fear, 25–49 fear, 50–54 neutral, 55–74 greed, 75–100 extreme greed.

Liquidity. L2 book, open interest, 8h funding and mark–index basis of the BTC-USDT swap on OKX. The score weights spread, notional within ±1% of mid, and book imbalance.

Pulse. Public RSS (CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, Optech, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate) with no API key, plus CryptoCompare. Filter: Bitcoin, ETF, SEC, mining. Trends: CoinGecko. The cycle advances every 8s. Headlines translated to the selected language (ES / EN / PT).

Zoom. Wheel, keyboard (arrows and plus/minus) or pinch to zoom, drag to pan, double-click or maximize for the full range. Y axis re-fits on a log scale. On the map, minimum zoom = globe; country click = capital.

What is Bitácora.btc?

Driven by Consciencia Bitcoin & LATAM Cripto Mom

What will you find on this interactive map?

Add your community to the Bitácora

FAQ

Bitcoin throughout history

White Paper

Genesis block

First transaction

Bitcointalk

Bitcoin Pizza Day

Bitcoin Foundation

First halving

Bitcoin Argentina NGO and LABITCONF

Second halving

SegWit

Lightning mainnet

Bitcoin Beach

Third halving

Bitcoin Conference Miami

El Salvador

Adopting Bitcoin

Taproot

Plan ₿ Lugano

Satsconf

US spot ETFs

Fourth halving

Original White Paper (Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008)

Mining is not a money printer

Bitcoin today

Review