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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

10327 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Fri Dec 27 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 30-day

NODES238982
COUNTRIES170
CITIES10327
ASNS2959
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS446

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RANKCITYNODES
138China Fuzhou
188 (0.09%)
138Colombia Bogotá
188 (0.09%)
139Italy Turin
186 (0.08%)
140El Salvador San Salvador
185 (0.08%)
140Germany Bietigheim-Bissingen
185 (0.08%)
141United States Nashville
184 (0.08%)
141United States San Antonio
184 (0.08%)
142Brazil Goiânia
183 (0.08%)
142Slovenia Ljubljana
183 (0.08%)
143Indonesia Bandung
182 (0.08%)
144United States Philadelphia
181 (0.08%)
145United States Fort Worth
180 (0.08%)
146India Mumbai
178 (0.08%)
146United Kingdom Glasgow
178 (0.08%)
147Russia Rostov-on-Don
175 (0.08%)
148Russia Samara
173 (0.08%)
148United Kingdom Southwark
173 (0.08%)
149Estonia Tallinn
172 (0.08%)
149United States Tampa
172 (0.08%)
150Germany Wuppertal
170 (0.08%)
150United States Boston
170 (0.08%)
151China Weifang
167 (0.08%)
152Japan Osaka
166 (0.08%)
152South Africa Cape Town
166 (0.08%)
153Germany Bochum
164 (0.07%)

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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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