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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

9133 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Wed Jul 2 20:00:00 2025 EDT.

Window size: 7-day

NODES125258
COUNTRIES160
CITIES9133
ASNS2728
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS338

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RANKCITYNODES
73The Netherlands Rotterdam
197 (0.18%)
73United States San Diego
197 (0.18%)
74Italy Bologna
195 (0.18%)
75United States Minneapolis
194 (0.18%)
76Germany Hanover
191 (0.18%)
76Germany Leipzig
191 (0.18%)
76Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
191 (0.18%)
77United States Charlotte
187 (0.17%)
78Bulgaria Sofia
185 (0.17%)
79Italy Turin
183 (0.17%)
80Ukraine Kyiv
182 (0.17%)
81Romania Bucharest
177 (0.16%)
82United States Craig
175 (0.16%)
83Spain Barcelona
174 (0.16%)
84France Lauterbourg
173 (0.16%)
85United States Boardman
170 (0.16%)
86Germany Augsburg
163 (0.15%)
87United States San Francisco
160 (0.15%)
88China Hangzhou
158 (0.15%)
88India Mumbai
158 (0.15%)
88United States Portland
158 (0.15%)
89United States Council Bluffs
154 (0.14%)
90Australia Adelaide
152 (0.14%)
90Germany Dresden
152 (0.14%)
91China Shenzhen
151 (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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