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How to Create a Bitcoin Community

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At this stage, your community is already up and running. All that's left is to welcome more interested people and help it grow.
But you can't move forward without knowing that there are platforms where bitcoiners can find communities and meetups near them. That's why it's important to take a few minutes to request a listing on these sites.
These include:
  • Btcmap.org, a website with two maps updated daily: the world map of businesses accepting Bitcoin and the world communities map. Many bitcoiners check these maps regularly, whether they're traveling or going about their daily lives, to meet new people or find places to spend their sats. Btcmap is the global reference, and listing your community there is essential for visibility.
  • BitcoinerEvents, a website created by bitcoiners, for bitcoiners. It lets you post your community's upcoming events. In France, however, it's still not widely used.
  • depending on your country, there may be other local initiatives. In France, for example, there's Bitcoin.fr, which lists dozens of Bitcoin events every month. So if you haven't yet followed them on Twitter or contacted them to share information about your community and events, now's the time! To help keep the French events calendar up to date, it would be great if all French Bitcoin communities got into the habit of:
    • mentioning @bitcoinpointfr on Twitter for every new community event
    • pinning new event announcements in their Telegram group.
Other platforms can also boost your visibility. Meetup is one of them, and it's a website (and a phone app) where you can create an event and find others nearby. It cost around 8€ a month (or around 90€ a year), which can be expensive for a small, unstructured community. That said, Meetup is widely used in some countries, especially in Canada and the United States, and it is useful for managing registrations.
Similarly, Orangepillapp is a paid mobile app (50,000 sats/year or 200,000 sats for lifetime access) that helps bitcoiners meet.
While these last two platforms can help increase visibility, they're not recommended when launching a community, simply because they aren't free. Starting with a listing on btcmap.org, BitcoinerEvents and for French communities, on Bitcoin.fr is more than enough.
Congratulations! Your community is created, your visuals are ready, your objectives are set, your communication channels are in place, your social networks are launched and your visibility strategy is decided.
Once a small group of bitcoiners has joined you, it's time for the next step: organizing your first Bitcoin meetup.