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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

6633 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Sat Dec 21 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 1-day

NODES64899
COUNTRIES143
CITIES6633
ASNS2353
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS255

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RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 8969 (17.64%)
2Germany Düsseldorf
1329 (2.61%)
3Germany Falkenstein
813 (1.60%)
4Finland Helsinki
762 (1.50%)
5Germany Frankfurt am Main
653 (1.28%)
6Singapore Singapore
613 (1.21%)
7United States Ashburn
538 (1.06%)
8Canada Toronto
454 (0.89%)
9Japan Tokyo
431 (0.85%)
10The Netherlands Amsterdam
429 (0.84%)
11Switzerland Zurich
428 (0.84%)
12United Kingdom London
408 (0.80%)
13Germany Berlin
390 (0.77%)
14Germany Nuremberg
385 (0.76%)
15France Paris
343 (0.67%)
16Australia Sydney
335 (0.66%)
17United States Columbus
321 (0.63%)
18Russia Moscow
291 (0.57%)
19United States Los Angeles
283 (0.56%)
20United States St Louis
269 (0.53%)
21China Changsha
260 (0.51%)
22Ireland Dublin
255 (0.50%)
23China Jianning
251 (0.49%)
24Brazil São Paulo
238 (0.47%)
25United States Chicago
235 (0.46%)

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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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