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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

10584 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Thu Apr 17 20:00:00 2025 EDT.

Window size: 30-day

NODES248080
COUNTRIES165
CITIES10584
ASNS2954
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS436

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RANKCITYNODES
74China Hangzhou
440 (0.19%)
75Ukraine Kyiv
433 (0.19%)
76China Wuhan
426 (0.19%)
77United Kingdom Manchester
425 (0.19%)
77United States Kansas City
425 (0.19%)
78South Africa Cape Town
421 (0.18%)
79Germany Dresden
414 (0.18%)
80Spain Barcelona
413 (0.18%)
81Croatia Zagreb
402 (0.18%)
82United States Boston
398 (0.17%)
83Taiwan Taipei
386 (0.17%)
84Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
379 (0.17%)
85United States Pittsburgh
362 (0.16%)
86Saudi Arabia Riyadh
358 (0.16%)
87Norway Oslo
355 (0.15%)
88Mexico Mexico City
354 (0.15%)
89Bulgaria Sofia
349 (0.15%)
90Germany Essen
347 (0.15%)
90United States Port Saint Lucie
347 (0.15%)
91United States San Francisco
337 (0.15%)
92Germany Hanover
333 (0.15%)
92India Bengaluru
333 (0.15%)
93Vietnam Hanoi
332 (0.14%)
94Belarus Minsk
326 (0.14%)
95United States San Diego
321 (0.14%)

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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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