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
46United States Austin
123 (0.25%)
47United States Denver
122 (0.24%)
47United States Washington
122 (0.24%)
48Russia St Petersburg
121 (0.24%)
49United States Phoenix
120 (0.24%)
50Germany Hamburg
118 (0.24%)
51United States Houston
114 (0.23%)
52United States Atlanta
113 (0.23%)
52United States Santa Clara
113 (0.23%)
53Ukraine Kyiv
110 (0.22%)
54Italy Rome
105 (0.21%)
55China Guangzhou
104 (0.21%)
55France Lauterbourg
104 (0.21%)
56The Netherlands Naaldwijk
98 (0.20%)
57United Arab Emirates Dubai
96 (0.19%)
58Canada Vancouver
94 (0.19%)
58United States North Bergen
94 (0.19%)
58United States Portland
94 (0.19%)
59New Zealand Auckland
92 (0.18%)
59United States San Francisco
92 (0.18%)
60Taiwan Taipei
91 (0.18%)
61Canada Calgary
90 (0.18%)
61United States San Diego
90 (0.18%)
62Bulgaria Sofia
86 (0.17%)
63Portugal Lisbon
85 (0.17%)

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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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