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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

12666 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Tue Dec 3 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 90-day

NODES486387
COUNTRIES179
CITIES12666
ASNS3279
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS531

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RANKCITYNODES
51Italy Rome
1409 (0.30%)
52United States San Jose
1356 (0.29%)
53Sweden Stockholm
1318 (0.28%)
54Czechia Prague
1314 (0.28%)
55Germany Falkenstein
1311 (0.28%)
56Canada Montreal
1303 (0.28%)
57United States Phoenix
1248 (0.27%)
58Brazil Rio de Janeiro
1247 (0.27%)
59Hungary Budapest
1188 (0.26%)
60Canada Vancouver
1163 (0.25%)
61Croatia Zagreb
1161 (0.25%)
61United States Las Vegas
1161 (0.25%)
62United Arab Emirates Dubai
1134 (0.24%)
63China Hangzhou
1097 (0.24%)
64Hong Kong Hong Kong
1075 (0.23%)
65Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
1069 (0.23%)
66India Bengaluru
1054 (0.23%)
67Portugal Lisbon
1043 (0.22%)
68Germany Dresden
1042 (0.22%)
69Australia Perth
1014 (0.22%)
70Chile Santiago
980 (0.21%)
71United States Council Bluffs
969 (0.21%)
72China Chengdu
945 (0.20%)
73New Zealand Auckland
929 (0.20%)
73United States San Diego
929 (0.20%)

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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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