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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

8176 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Fri Nov 22 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 7-day

NODES110195
COUNTRIES158
CITIES8176
ASNS2599
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS315

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RANKCITYNODES
25Austria Vienna
504 (0.53%)
26France Paris
494 (0.52%)
27United States Dallas
490 (0.51%)
28Ireland Dublin
462 (0.48%)
29United States Miami
452 (0.47%)
30United States Seattle
435 (0.46%)
31United States Atlanta
420 (0.44%)
32United States Denver
410 (0.43%)
33China Shanghai
403 (0.42%)
34Italy Milan
374 (0.39%)
35Spain Madrid
362 (0.38%)
36Australia Melbourne
348 (0.37%)
37Poland Warsaw
343 (0.36%)
38United States Columbus
337 (0.35%)
39China Guangzhou
328 (0.34%)
40Hong Kong Hong Kong
322 (0.34%)
41China Wuhan
320 (0.34%)
42Czechia Prague
317 (0.33%)
43United States St Louis
313 (0.33%)
44Sweden Stockholm
308 (0.32%)
44United States Austin
308 (0.32%)
45United States Houston
300 (0.31%)
46Canada Montreal
299 (0.31%)
47China Changsha
298 (0.31%)
48China Shenzhen
293 (0.31%)

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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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