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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

10315 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Wed Dec 25 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 30-day

NODES239673
COUNTRIES171
CITIES10315
ASNS2961
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS431

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RANKCITYNODES
50Germany Cologne
646 (0.29%)
51Canada Montreal
598 (0.27%)
52Hong Kong Hong Kong
589 (0.27%)
53Belgium Brussels
588 (0.27%)
54United States Austin
586 (0.26%)
54Uruguay Montevideo
586 (0.26%)
55United States San Diego
585 (0.26%)
56United States Houston
584 (0.26%)
57China Changsha
571 (0.26%)
58China Wuhan
553 (0.25%)
59Brazil Rio de Janeiro
552 (0.25%)
60Hungary Budapest
539 (0.24%)
61United States Phoenix
534 (0.24%)
62United States St Louis
531 (0.24%)
63United States Columbus
520 (0.23%)
64Australia Perth
517 (0.23%)
65Canada Vancouver
515 (0.23%)
66Ukraine Kyiv
494 (0.22%)
67Chile Santiago
491 (0.22%)
68Germany Leipzig
471 (0.21%)
69Indonesia Jakarta
464 (0.21%)
70United States Las Vegas
461 (0.21%)
71India Bengaluru
460 (0.21%)
72Portugal Lisbon
452 (0.20%)
73United Arab Emirates Dubai
447 (0.20%)

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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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