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


Global Bitcoin nodes by country

170 countries with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Sat Dec 21 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 30-day

NODES240696
COUNTRIES170
CITIES10302
ASNS2961
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS427

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RANKCOUNTRYNODES
1United States
51259 (23.00%)
2Germany
38743 (17.38%)
3China
20097 (9.02%)
4Brazil
8517 (3.82%)
5Russian Federation
8173 (3.67%)
6United Kingdom
7858 (3.53%)
7Canada
7526 (3.38%)
8France
6149 (2.76%)
9Italy
5524 (2.48%)
10Netherlands
5125 (2.30%)
11Australia
4475 (2.01%)
12Spain
3890 (1.75%)
13Switzerland
3881 (1.74%)
14Japan
3126 (1.40%)
15Thailand
2959 (1.33%)
16India
2010 (0.90%)
17Mexico
1942 (0.87%)
18Austria
1888 (0.85%)
19Singapore
1749 (0.78%)
20Hong Kong
1686 (0.76%)
21Finland
1633 (0.73%)
22Poland
1629 (0.73%)
23Sweden
1606 (0.72%)
24Belgium
1361 (0.61%)
25Ukraine
1353 (0.61%)

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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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