Active
Dated activity within 12 months of our last check.
The operator's news page lists an event write-up dated 24 March 2026, following a launch announcement dated 2 December 2025 (checked 2 October 2026).
Dated activity 24 March 2026Checked 2 October 2026
Merchant onboarding, education events and partnerships with local nonprofits, aimed at building a Bitcoin circular economy in Washington, D.C., run by the Bitcoin District Initiative.
- Operator
- Bitcoin District Initiative
- Funding
- Tax-deductible donations to a DC 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which the operator says fund education, business onboarding and community outreach.
- Adoption, as the operator reports it
- The initiatives page sets a target of 100 DC-area businesses accepting Bitcoin by the end of 2026. No current count of onboarded businesses was found on the checked pages.The figures are undated at the source.
- What the figures don’t show
- A target is not an achieved merchant count, and progress toward it is not published on the checked pages.
- How sure we are
- High for operator proposition and target; no onboarded-business count found.Our confidence in reading the source — not a rating of whether the claim is true.
- Source
- bitcoindistrictinitiative.org/initiativesWhere on the page: “Our Initiatives / 100 Businesses Accepting BTC by 2026 / Support our Work” · checked 2 October 2026
- Dated activity source
- bitcoindistrictinitiative.org/news
- Record
bitcoin-district-initiative-usLocality: Wikidata Q61
Status history
| Snapshot | Status | Source last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Added after the 1 October 2026 snapshot; its first snapshot is 1 November 2026. | ||
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Cite this record
Billasaari Bitcoin Places Register (2026). Bitcoin District Initiative [bitcoin-district-initiative-us], v0.3.0. https://billasaari.com/atlas/bitcoin-district-initiative-us/. CC BY 4.0.