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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

6973 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Mon Jan 20 19:00:00 2025 EST.

Window size: 1-day

NODES65102
COUNTRIES138
CITIES6973
ASNS2416
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS256

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RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 7607 (15.07%)
2China Changsha
1541 (3.05%)
3Germany Düsseldorf
885 (1.75%)
4Germany Falkenstein
809 (1.60%)
5Finland Helsinki
753 (1.49%)
6Germany Frankfurt am Main
658 (1.30%)
7Singapore Singapore
562 (1.11%)
8United States Ashburn
498 (0.99%)
9The Netherlands Amsterdam
474 (0.94%)
10Canada Toronto
447 (0.89%)
11Japan Tokyo
431 (0.85%)
12Switzerland Zurich
421 (0.83%)
13United Kingdom London
385 (0.76%)
14Germany Nuremberg
377 (0.75%)
15Australia Sydney
372 (0.74%)
16Germany Berlin
348 (0.69%)
17United States Columbus
329 (0.65%)
18Russia Moscow
321 (0.64%)
19United States Los Angeles
291 (0.58%)
20Ireland Dublin
288 (0.57%)
21United States New York
271 (0.54%)
22France Paris
267 (0.53%)
23Austria Vienna
252 (0.50%)
24United States St Louis
239 (0.47%)
25Spain Madrid
225 (0.45%)

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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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