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
49Australia Brisbane
292 (0.31%)
50Belgium Brussels
288 (0.30%)
51Russia St Petersburg
282 (0.30%)
52United States San Jose
279 (0.29%)
53Germany Stuttgart
272 (0.29%)
54United States Phoenix
245 (0.26%)
55United Kingdom Manchester
238 (0.25%)
56United States Las Vegas
227 (0.24%)
57China Hangzhou
223 (0.23%)
58United Arab Emirates Dubai
218 (0.23%)
59Australia Perth
217 (0.23%)
60Greece Athens
215 (0.23%)
60Israel Tel Aviv
215 (0.23%)
61South Korea Seoul
210 (0.22%)
62Germany Cologne
208 (0.22%)
63Portugal Lisbon
200 (0.21%)
64Canada Vancouver
199 (0.21%)
65Ukraine Kyiv
198 (0.21%)
66United States Boardman
197 (0.21%)
67Hungary Budapest
195 (0.20%)
68Brazil Rio de Janeiro
192 (0.20%)
69India Bengaluru
191 (0.20%)
69New Zealand Auckland
191 (0.20%)
70United States Council Bluffs
184 (0.19%)
71United States San Francisco
182 (0.19%)

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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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