Bitnodes estimates the relative size of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network by finding all of its reachable nodes.


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

6562 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Tue Dec 24 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 1-day

NODES64214
COUNTRIES137
CITIES6562
ASNS2351
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS262

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RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 9245 (18.42%)
2Germany Düsseldorf
1325 (2.64%)
3Germany Falkenstein
821 (1.64%)
4Finland Helsinki
774 (1.54%)
5Germany Frankfurt am Main
706 (1.41%)
6Singapore Singapore
611 (1.22%)
7United States Ashburn
524 (1.04%)
8The Netherlands Amsterdam
458 (0.91%)
9Canada Toronto
442 (0.88%)
10Switzerland Zurich
418 (0.83%)
11Japan Tokyo
413 (0.82%)
12Germany Nuremberg
393 (0.78%)
12United Kingdom London
393 (0.78%)
13Germany Berlin
349 (0.70%)
14Australia Sydney
344 (0.69%)
15United States Columbus
322 (0.64%)
16France Paris
321 (0.64%)
17Russia Moscow
284 (0.57%)
18United States Los Angeles
282 (0.56%)
18United States St Louis
282 (0.56%)
19Ireland Dublin
257 (0.51%)
20China Changsha
255 (0.51%)
21China Jianning
249 (0.50%)
22China Wuhan
233 (0.46%)
23United States Chicago
215 (0.43%)

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This page reports the estimated size of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network including both reachable and unreachable nodes, i.e. global nodes. Unlike the low churn rate estimation method for reachable nodes (see the latest snapshot here), the method for this report can only provide a rough estimation and does not filter out potentially spurious nodes that may be gossiped by non-standard/spam/malicious peers.

Bitnodes crawler captures these nodes from the addr messages returned by all the reachable nodes. Each snapshot or data point in this report represents a rolling window. A snapshot with window size of 1 day will include all nodes by IP addresses with timestamps less than 1 day old. The timestamp for a node here refers to the time when its peer last connects to it. If you turn on your Bitcoin node for only a few minutes anytime during the last 24 hours, it will be included in the latest snapshot with a window size of 1 day.

Multiple nodes from the same IP address, but different port numbers are counted as one node in this report. A larger window size may increase the likelihood of the same node being counted more than once due to e.g. IP lease renewal.

A Bitcoin node may be unreachable for several reasons. It may be configured by the operator to only attempt to make outgoing connections or it may be located behind corporate/ISP firewalls or NAT. A node could also become temporarily unreachable if it has hit its maximum allowed connections or if it is in the process of syncing up to the latest blocks. As it is impossible to connect to an unreachable node directly, we cannot reliably confirm the true existence of an unreachable node, hence the rough estimation.


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