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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

12620 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Wed Dec 25 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 90-day

NODES500495
COUNTRIES180
CITIES12620
ASNS3284
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS539

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RANKCITYNODES
51Belgium Brussels
1418 (0.30%)
52Russia St Petersburg
1351 (0.28%)
53Sweden Stockholm
1326 (0.28%)
54Czechia Prague
1305 (0.27%)
55Germany Falkenstein
1301 (0.27%)
56Hungary Budapest
1293 (0.27%)
57Brazil Rio de Janeiro
1278 (0.27%)
58China Chengdu
1276 (0.27%)
59United States Phoenix
1266 (0.26%)
60Canada Vancouver
1241 (0.26%)
60Indonesia Jakarta
1241 (0.26%)
61Canada Montreal
1216 (0.25%)
62Croatia Zagreb
1130 (0.24%)
63Chile Santiago
1126 (0.24%)
64United Arab Emirates Dubai
1118 (0.23%)
65Germany Dresden
1064 (0.22%)
66United States Las Vegas
1063 (0.22%)
67Australia Perth
1062 (0.22%)
67United States San Diego
1062 (0.22%)
68Hong Kong Hong Kong
1050 (0.22%)
69India Bengaluru
1037 (0.22%)
69Portugal Lisbon
1037 (0.22%)
70Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
1033 (0.22%)
71Germany Leipzig
999 (0.21%)
72United States Paramus
978 (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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