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
24Spain Madrid
212 (0.42%)
25Austria Vienna
208 (0.41%)
26Hong Kong Hong Kong
204 (0.41%)
27Brazil São Paulo
195 (0.39%)
28Czechia Prague
186 (0.37%)
29Canada Montreal
182 (0.36%)
30Italy Milan
178 (0.35%)
30United States New York
178 (0.35%)
31Germany Munich
170 (0.34%)
32China Beijing
167 (0.33%)
33Thailand Bangkok
162 (0.32%)
34Poland Warsaw
160 (0.32%)
34United States Council Bluffs
160 (0.32%)
34United States San Jose
160 (0.32%)
35Australia Melbourne
159 (0.32%)
36United States Seattle
157 (0.31%)
37Germany Brandenburg
155 (0.31%)
38Sweden Stockholm
153 (0.30%)
39China Shanghai
150 (0.30%)
40United States Boardman
149 (0.30%)
41United States Dallas
148 (0.29%)
42United States Miami
143 (0.28%)
43Australia Brisbane
139 (0.28%)
44United States Las Vegas
129 (0.26%)
45Belgium Brussels
127 (0.25%)

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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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