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
26China Wuhan
226 (0.44%)
27Austria Vienna
210 (0.41%)
28Spain Madrid
209 (0.41%)
29Czechia Prague
200 (0.39%)
30United States New York
196 (0.39%)
31Hong Kong Hong Kong
195 (0.38%)
32Canada Montreal
190 (0.37%)
33China Beijing
186 (0.37%)
34United States San Jose
185 (0.36%)
35United States San Diego
181 (0.36%)
36Germany Munich
179 (0.35%)
36Italy Milan
179 (0.35%)
37Poland Warsaw
176 (0.35%)
38United States Miami
174 (0.34%)
38United States Seattle
174 (0.34%)
39Sweden Stockholm
170 (0.33%)
40Thailand Bangkok
165 (0.32%)
41United States Dallas
164 (0.32%)
42United States Atlanta
163 (0.32%)
43Australia Melbourne
160 (0.31%)
44United States Council Bluffs
153 (0.30%)
45China Shanghai
149 (0.29%)
46Germany Brandenburg
148 (0.29%)
47United States Boardman
144 (0.28%)
48United States Denver
140 (0.28%)

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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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