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
95Romania Bucharest
129 (0.14%)
96Mexico Mexico City
126 (0.13%)
97Vietnam Hanoi
124 (0.13%)
98Chile Santiago
120 (0.13%)
99United States North Bergen
118 (0.12%)
100Germany Karlsruhe
117 (0.12%)
101Latvia Riga
116 (0.12%)
101Switzerland Bern
116 (0.12%)
102United States Brooklyn
114 (0.12%)
102United States Minneapolis
114 (0.12%)
103Brazil Curitiba
111 (0.12%)
104United States Boston
110 (0.12%)
105India Mumbai
109 (0.11%)
106United States Concord
106 (0.11%)
107Croatia Zagreb
105 (0.11%)
108Türkiye Istanbul
104 (0.11%)
109Canada Edmonton
101 (0.11%)
110United Kingdom Canary Wharf
99 (0.10%)
111Germany Hanover
98 (0.10%)
111United Kingdom Glasgow
98 (0.10%)
112France Bordeaux
97 (0.10%)
112Serbia Belgrade
97 (0.10%)
113Australia Adelaide
96 (0.10%)
113Slovakia Bratislava
96 (0.10%)
113United States Tukwila
96 (0.10%)

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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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