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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

6582 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Fri Dec 27 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 1-day

NODES62114
COUNTRIES140
CITIES6582
ASNS2354
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS259

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RANKCITYNODES
105Sweden Gothenburg
31 (0.06%)
105Switzerland Geneva
31 (0.06%)
105United States Philadelphia
31 (0.06%)
105United States Raleigh
31 (0.06%)
106Estonia Tallinn
30 (0.06%)
106Sweden Malmo
30 (0.06%)
107Germany Essen
29 (0.06%)
107Germany Hanover
29 (0.06%)
107Russia Novosibirsk
29 (0.06%)
107Spain Valencia
29 (0.06%)
107United States Albuquerque
29 (0.06%)
107United States Colorado Springs
29 (0.06%)
108Brazil Bonito
28 (0.06%)
108Canada Victoria
28 (0.06%)
108Finland Lappeenranta
28 (0.06%)
108Saudi Arabia Riyadh
28 (0.06%)
108United States Queens
28 (0.06%)
109Canada Ottawa
27 (0.06%)
109Italy Turin
27 (0.06%)
109Portugal Porto
27 (0.06%)
109United States Kansas City
27 (0.06%)
109United States Spring
27 (0.06%)
110Austria Linz
26 (0.05%)
110Canada Beauharnois
26 (0.05%)
110Canada Surrey
26 (0.05%)

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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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