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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

10310 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Thu Dec 26 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 30-day

NODES239661
COUNTRIES172
CITIES10310
ASNS2968
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS432

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RANKCITYNODES
96United States Minneapolis
310 (0.14%)
97Belarus Minsk
304 (0.14%)
98United States Council Bluffs
300 (0.14%)
99Latvia Riga
288 (0.13%)
100The Netherlands Naaldwijk
279 (0.13%)
101Saudi Arabia Riyadh
277 (0.12%)
102South Africa Johannesburg
275 (0.12%)
103United States Santa Clara
268 (0.12%)
104Germany Hanover
263 (0.12%)
105United Kingdom Canary Wharf
261 (0.12%)
106Mexico León
260 (0.12%)
107United States Charlotte
253 (0.11%)
108Brazil Porto Alegre
252 (0.11%)
108China Jianning
252 (0.11%)
109The Netherlands Rotterdam
250 (0.11%)
110Canada Edmonton
249 (0.11%)
111Puerto Rico San Juan
245 (0.11%)
112China Zhengzhou
242 (0.11%)
112United Kingdom Royal Tunbridge Wells
242 (0.11%)
113Türkiye Istanbul
240 (0.11%)
114Serbia Belgrade
239 (0.11%)
115Mexico Mexico City
234 (0.11%)
115South Korea Seoul
234 (0.11%)
116Cambodia Phnom Penh
231 (0.10%)
117Brazil Brasília
226 (0.10%)

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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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