The index, by the numbers.
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Czechia out-indexes the United States
Set aside the 710 companies that operate globally, and the country with the most indexed Bitcoin-friendly companies is not the USA. It is Czechia, with 522 records - half again as many as the United States. Italy, Germany, and Brazil round out a top five that looks nothing like where Bitcoin headlines come from.
| Rank | Country | Companies indexed |
|---|---|---|
| - | Global / remote-first | 710 |
| 1 | Czechia | 522 |
| 2 | Italy | 417 |
| 3 | Germany | 364 |
| 4 | USA | 346 |
| 5 | Brazil | 345 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 265 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 250 |
| 8 | UK | 193 |
| 9 | Portugal | 152 |
| 10 | Canada | 119 |
The biggest Bitcoin business city is not London or New York
It is Funchal, on the island of Madeira: 61 indexed companies in a city of roughly one hundred thousand people. Arnhem in the Netherlands - "Bitcoinstad" to the people who built it - is second with 55. London, thirty times Funchal's size, has 33. Concentration, not population, is what puts a city on this list.
| Rank | City | Companies indexed |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Funchal, Portugal | 61 |
| 2 | Arnhem, Netherlands | 55 |
| 3 | Prague, Czechia | 54 |
| 4 | Berlin, Germany | 41 |
| 5 | Porto Alegre, Brazil | 40 |
| 6 | Lugano, Switzerland | 37 |
| 7 | London, UK | 33 |
| 8 | Brno, Czechia | 33 |
| 9 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 28 |
| 10 | Vancouver, Canada | 27 |
Who is hiring right now
Thirty-two indexed companies have current openings confirmed against their own careers pages - and 25 of the 32 hire globally or remote-first, which says something about how this corner of the economy is built. The list runs from Lightning infrastructure (Lightning Labs, ZEBEDEE) through exchanges and custody (River, Strike, Swan Bitcoin, CoinCorner) to mining and hardware (Coinkite, Sazmining). Each carries a dated evidence link.
Use this data
The dataset behind these figures is public, CORS-open, and free to use with attribution. Every record carries its evidence source and the date we observed it; the rules that admit a record are written in the BTC Employers Standard. If you publish something built on it, we would genuinely like to see it.
A number on this page wrong or stale? The corrections process applies to our own statistics the same way it applies to employer records: public, dated, no exceptions.