# February 2025 Update

Table of Contents Dev Updates Admin Updates Trending Countries Trending Communities Most Active Editors Global Metrics New Lightning Adoption Report Conclusion Dev Updates As a purely open source infrastructure project, BTC Map faces some significant monetization challenges. We have serious funding issues and most of the work is done by volunteers with no compensation at all, and we also need to pay for our infra, which means that we’re always focused on two things: Cutting costs Finding sponsors While running a full node is fun, it costs ~$100 a month in VPS storage fees. To cut costs, we s

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