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Global Bitcoin nodes by city

12891 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Thu Oct 17 20:00:00 2024 EDT.

Window size: 90-day

NODES468580
COUNTRIES170
CITIES12891
ASNS3215
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS501

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RANKCITYNODES
99Argentina Buenos Aires
623 (0.14%)
100United States Detroit
622 (0.14%)
101Germany Essen
618 (0.14%)
101Switzerland Lausanne
618 (0.14%)
102United States Nashville
604 (0.13%)
103United States Milford
596 (0.13%)
104Taiwan Taichung
593 (0.13%)
105Germany Hanover
592 (0.13%)
106China Wuhan
587 (0.13%)
107Germany Bremen
576 (0.13%)
108Romania Bucharest
575 (0.13%)
109India Mumbai
567 (0.13%)
110Brazil Brasília
565 (0.13%)
111Türkiye Istanbul
560 (0.13%)
112United States San Francisco
534 (0.12%)
113Canada Edmonton
528 (0.12%)
114China Qingdao
523 (0.12%)
114United States Philadelphia
523 (0.12%)
115United States Covington
522 (0.12%)
116United Kingdom Glasgow
510 (0.11%)
117United States Portland
509 (0.11%)
118Mexico Mexico City
506 (0.11%)
119Russia Yekaterinburg
494 (0.11%)
120Saudi Arabia Riyadh
488 (0.11%)
121United States Brooklyn
486 (0.11%)

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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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