About this ledger

A list of merchants that accept Bitcoin is only worth reading if someone checks it. This one is re-checked every day, and every verified row links to the page that proved it.

Who runs it

This site is built and maintained by Ofer Tirosh, founder of Tomedes and MachineTranslation.com. It is an independent project, unaffiliated with any merchant, exchange or payment processor listed on it. Nobody pays to appear here and there are no affiliate links on the page.

Why it exists

Ask a search engine or an AI assistant which shops take Bitcoin and you will usually be told about merchants that stopped years ago. The answers are assembled from articles written once and never revisited, so a merchant that quietly dropped Bitcoin in 2021 keeps being recommended in 2026. Nothing in that chain ever goes back and checks.

This ledger exists to be the thing that checks. It holds one claim per row — that a named merchant accepted Bitcoin on a named date — and it re-tests every one of those claims daily against a page anyone can open. When a merchant stops, the row says so instead of disappearing, because a merchant dropping Bitcoin is information too.

How a row gets verified

Every row stores an evidence URL: a public page, usually the merchant's own checkout, payments or FAQ page, or a current payment-processor directory listing, that states Bitcoin acceptance. A scheduled job fetches each of those URLs once a day and classifies only the text it just retrieved. The classifier is never allowed to answer from prior knowledge; if the fetched page does not show acceptance, it does not count.

A page that still shows acceptance keeps its row verified and re-dates it. A page that stops moves the row into a separate list of merchants no longer accepting Bitcoin. A page that is unreachable, blocked or genuinely ambiguous for three consecutive days marks the row pending re-check — the honest answer when evidence will not load. Merchants that cannot be confirmed at all are left out rather than padded in.

Corrections

Every claim on the site is auditable without asking anyone's permission: the evidence URL for each row is published in the dataset under CC BY 4.0, so a row you disagree with can be checked against its own source in one click. If a row is wrong, the fastest correction is the evidence itself — a merchant page that states the opposite will move the row at the next daily run.

Using the data

The dataset is published as /data.json under a CC BY 4.0 licence: reuse it, including commercially, with attribution to whatcanyoubuywithbitcoin.com. A machine-readable summary for language models lives at /llms.txt. Bitcoin acceptance changes without notice, so confirm at checkout before relying on any row here.