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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

10302 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Sat Dec 21 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 30-day

NODES240696
COUNTRIES170
CITIES10302
ASNS2961
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS427

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RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 21798 (9.78%)
2Germany Berlin
4013 (1.80%)
3Germany Frankfurt am Main
2670 (1.20%)
4Germany Hamburg
2147 (0.96%)
5Switzerland Zurich
2109 (0.95%)
6Russia Moscow
1883 (0.84%)
7Germany Düsseldorf
1795 (0.81%)
8Germany Munich
1704 (0.76%)
9The Netherlands Amsterdam
1675 (0.75%)
10Australia Sydney
1669 (0.75%)
11Thailand Bangkok
1633 (0.73%)
12Brazil São Paulo
1550 (0.70%)
13United States Los Angeles
1540 (0.69%)
14Japan Tokyo
1520 (0.68%)
15Singapore Singapore
1498 (0.67%)
16United States Chicago
1474 (0.66%)
17Canada Toronto
1453 (0.65%)
18Italy Milan
1368 (0.61%)
19United States New York
1358 (0.61%)
20France Paris
1353 (0.61%)
21China Guangzhou
1302 (0.58%)
22China Beijing
1279 (0.57%)
23Austria Vienna
1278 (0.57%)
24United Kingdom London
1243 (0.56%)
25United States Miami
1204 (0.54%)

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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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