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


Global Bitcoin nodes by city

14047 cities with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Fri Sep 19 20:00:00 2025 EDT.

Window size: 90-day

NODES665240
COUNTRIES187
CITIES14047
ASNS3346
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS652

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RANKCITYNODES
148Chile Santiago
558 (0.09%)
149Switzerland Lausanne
550 (0.09%)
150Germany Lüneburg
549 (0.09%)
150Germany Wiesbaden
549 (0.09%)
151Germany Achern
548 (0.09%)
152Portugal Porto
547 (0.09%)
153Italy Reggio Emilia
534 (0.08%)
154United Kingdom Poplar
524 (0.08%)
155Thailand Pattaya
521 (0.08%)
156South Korea Seoul
513 (0.08%)
157Germany Potsdam
512 (0.08%)
158United States Geneva
511 (0.08%)
159China Nanjing
509 (0.08%)
160United States Boston
508 (0.08%)
161United Kingdom Tower Hamlets
505 (0.08%)
162Switzerland Lucerne
497 (0.08%)
163China Zhengzhou
495 (0.08%)
163South Africa Johannesburg
495 (0.08%)
164Kuwait Kuwait City
491 (0.08%)
165Costa Rica San José
490 (0.08%)
166DR Congo Goma
484 (0.08%)
167Germany Ingolstadt
481 (0.08%)
167Iran Tehran
481 (0.08%)
168Germany Bremen
480 (0.08%)
169Italy Verona
477 (0.07%)

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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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