Interactive online maps are the most intuitive way to find places of interest, including merchants who accept cryptocurrencies as a payment method. Many of these types of maps provide filters for the types of services offered or cryptocurrencies.
Coinmap
is one of the most popular map type applications, otherwise it allows companies that accept cryptocurrencies to include their coordinates for free. The map shows around 16,000 locations worldwide that accept cryptocurrency payments.
Users can filter these locations according to several categories, such as shopping, cafes, restaurants, accommodation, transportation, sports and entertainment. It also includes ATMs where cryptocurrencies can be purchased or converted.
Each location selected includes details about services, the website, or exploring the area through Google Street View.
Interactive online maps for merchants
Maltamap is dedicated to merchants using cryptocurrencies on the “Blockchain Island”. A growing number of companies in Malta are accepting cryptocurrencies, including hotels, real estate companies, car dealers and other service providers.
Business directories provide another opportunity to explore locations that accept cryptocurrencies.
Acceptcryptoz
lists over 800 such places in several categories, including restaurants and bars, hotels and boarding houses, shops and markets, arts and entertainment, other services and even crypto ATMs. The page of each location provides the merchant’s contact details and details about it. these on the left side of the screen.
Payment processors
Another category of maps is provided by payment processors, who maintain databases with their own clients. An example of this is the crypto PoS provider Anypay, which offers a map showing companies using its services.
The platform supports a number of cryptocurrencies such as BCH, BTC, LTC, DASH, DOGE, ZEC, XRP and ZEN. The locations are displayed in different colors, indicating when the last payment was made, so you know which stores regularly process crypto payments. Clicking on a bookmark also gives you information about that business, its address and accepted currencies.
Coppay
is another company that allows users to accept cryptocurrency payments through instant conversion to fiat. On his website he has a map showing the physical locations where the payment system is used. Copay mainly provides services to traders based in the Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania, although the company is working to expand to other markets and has already entered Portugal.
Bitcoinmap
There are also maps dedicated to a specific cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoinmap.cash.
This is a database of locations that accept BCH cryptocurrency, but many of those locations also support BTC and Dash. Bitcoinmap.cash has a desktop version and a mobile application that you can download and install. Provides basic merchant information, including discounts for cryptocurrency payments, and allows location verification using Google Maps.
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