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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

6684 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Sun May 5 20:00:00 2024 EDT.

Window size: 1-day

NODES61731
COUNTRIES140
CITIES6684
ASNS2274
SERVICES5
PORT NUMBERS285

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RANKCITYNODES
45United States North Bergen138 (0.29%)
46United States Las Vegas136 (0.28%)
47United States Houston135 (0.28%)
48The Netherlands Naaldwijk133 (0.28%)
49United States Santa Clara132 (0.27%)
50South Korea Seoul127 (0.26%)
50United States Portland127 (0.26%)
51China Chengdu122 (0.25%)
52Russia St Petersburg121 (0.25%)
53Spain Madrid118 (0.24%)
54Canada Vancouver113 (0.23%)
55Portugal Lisbon105 (0.22%)
56Belgium Brussels104 (0.22%)
57United States Phoenix103 (0.21%)
58India Mumbai102 (0.21%)
58United States San Francisco102 (0.21%)
59China Nantong100 (0.21%)
60Germany Hamburg99 (0.21%)
61United States Washington97 (0.20%)
62Ukraine Kyiv95 (0.20%)
62United Arab Emirates Dubai95 (0.20%)
63United States St Louis92 (0.19%)
64Germany Leipzig91 (0.19%)
64New Zealand Auckland91 (0.19%)
64United Kingdom Manchester91 (0.19%)

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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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