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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

10011 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Thu Nov 21 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 30-day

NODES221331
COUNTRIES168
CITIES10011
ASNS2805
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS398

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RANKCITYNODES
97United States Washington
296 (0.14%)
98United States Minneapolis
289 (0.14%)
99Belarus Minsk
287 (0.14%)
100Germany Essen
278 (0.14%)
101United States Concord
277 (0.14%)
102United States Santa Clara
276 (0.13%)
103Latvia Riga
275 (0.13%)
104United States Boardman
272 (0.13%)
105Switzerland Bern
263 (0.13%)
106United States Brooklyn
257 (0.13%)
107Germany Karlsruhe
254 (0.12%)
107The Netherlands Naaldwijk
254 (0.12%)
108United States Queens
252 (0.12%)
109Türkiye Istanbul
250 (0.12%)
110United Kingdom Canary Wharf
249 (0.12%)
111Indonesia Bandung
248 (0.12%)
112France Bordeaux
240 (0.12%)
112United States Portland
240 (0.12%)
113Canada Edmonton
238 (0.12%)
113Germany Dortmund
238 (0.12%)
114India Mumbai
237 (0.12%)
115Brazil Brasília
230 (0.11%)
115Italy Turin
230 (0.11%)
116Brazil Porto Alegre
229 (0.11%)
117Australia Adelaide
227 (0.11%)

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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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