r/Bitcoin

Updated Aug 28

Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company, or bank in charge of Bitcoin. As such, it is more resistant to wild inflation and corrupt banks. With Bitcoin, you can be your own bank.

Members

8,172,055

8.2M

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

no sample yet

Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

+0.1%

+4.4K members · ≈7d

Growth · 30d

+0.2%

+19K members · ≈27d

Promo tolerance

not assessed yet

Last post

no sample yet

Distinct posters

no sample yet

Tracking since Aug 1 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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r/Bitcoin — frequently asked

How many members does r/Bitcoin have?

r/Bitcoin has 8,172,055 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 28. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/Bitcoin growing?

Over the last ≈27 days r/Bitcoin changed by +0.2% — a gain of 19K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/Bitcoin?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Bitcoin yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

Can I promote my product in r/Bitcoin?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Bitcoin yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/Bitcoin for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Bitcoin into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/Bitcoin's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Bitcoin's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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