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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

12683 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Wed Dec 4 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 90-day

NODES486564
COUNTRIES180
CITIES12683
ASNS3279
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS535

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RANKCITYNODES
97Latvia Riga
684 (0.15%)
98Belarus Minsk
664 (0.14%)
99Germany Augsburg
660 (0.14%)
100Mexico Mexico City
631 (0.14%)
101Türkiye Istanbul
628 (0.14%)
102Australia Adelaide
624 (0.13%)
103United States San Francisco
609 (0.13%)
104Russia Krasnodar
608 (0.13%)
105Indonesia Bandung
588 (0.13%)
106Brazil Brasília
585 (0.13%)
107United States Santa Clara
584 (0.13%)
108United States Charlotte
581 (0.12%)
109Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City
579 (0.12%)
110China Jinan
577 (0.12%)
111Colombia Bogotá
576 (0.12%)
112Germany Mannheim
573 (0.12%)
113United States Washington
562 (0.12%)
114Brazil Porto Alegre
561 (0.12%)
115China Zhengzhou
544 (0.12%)
116Russia Yekaterinburg
542 (0.12%)
117Italy Turin
538 (0.12%)
118Germany Karlsruhe
536 (0.12%)
119Canada Edmonton
525 (0.11%)
120India Mumbai
512 (0.11%)
121United States Crystal Lake
505 (0.11%)

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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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