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
71China Hangzhou
86 (0.17%)
71Portugal Lisbon
86 (0.17%)
72Israel Tel Aviv
85 (0.17%)
72United Arab Emirates Dubai
85 (0.17%)
73United Kingdom Canary Wharf
83 (0.16%)
73United States Brooklyn
83 (0.16%)
74Argentina Buenos Aires
81 (0.16%)
75Hungary Budapest
78 (0.15%)
76Norway Oslo
76 (0.15%)
76Spain Barcelona
76 (0.15%)
77Germany Stuttgart
75 (0.15%)
77United States Salt Lake City
75 (0.15%)
78United States Clifton
74 (0.15%)
79South Korea Incheon
70 (0.14%)
80Romania Bucharest
69 (0.14%)
81Brazil Rio de Janeiro
68 (0.13%)
81China Shenzhen
68 (0.13%)
82South Korea Seoul
67 (0.13%)
83United States Charlotte
64 (0.13%)
84Germany Karlsruhe
63 (0.12%)
85Greece Athens
62 (0.12%)
85India Mumbai
62 (0.12%)
85The Netherlands Rotterdam
62 (0.12%)
86United States Minneapolis
60 (0.12%)
87China Chengdu
59 (0.12%)

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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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