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
155United States Covington
153 (0.07%)
156Germany Krefeld
152 (0.07%)
156Germany Münster
152 (0.07%)
157China Chongqing
151 (0.07%)
157Denmark Copenhagen
151 (0.07%)
157Lithuania Vilnius
151 (0.07%)
157United States Albany
151 (0.07%)
158Brazil Goiânia
150 (0.07%)
159Germany Darmstadt
147 (0.07%)
160Germany Wuppertal
146 (0.07%)
160Russia Irkutsk
146 (0.07%)
160United States Fort Lauderdale
146 (0.07%)
161Brazil Recife
145 (0.07%)
161Italy Florence
145 (0.07%)
161South Africa Cape Town
145 (0.07%)
162Canada Surrey
144 (0.07%)
162Sweden Gothenburg
144 (0.07%)
163Taiwan New Taipei City
143 (0.07%)
163United States Louisville
143 (0.07%)
164Germany Heilbronn
140 (0.07%)
165Germany Ingolstadt
139 (0.07%)
165Russia Novosibirsk
139 (0.07%)
165United States Secaucus
139 (0.07%)
166France Montpellier
138 (0.07%)
166United States Richardson
138 (0.07%)

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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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