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


Global Bitcoin nodes by country

179 countries with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Mon Dec 2 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 90-day

NODES486307
COUNTRIES179
CITIES12656
ASNS3282
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS535

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RANKCOUNTRYNODES
1United States
105592 (22.71%)
2Germany
85099 (18.30%)
3China
33520 (7.21%)
4Russian Federation
18346 (3.95%)
5Brazil
18338 (3.94%)
6United Kingdom
15074 (3.24%)
7Italy
14945 (3.21%)
8Canada
14310 (3.08%)
9France
11910 (2.56%)
10Australia
9825 (2.11%)
11Netherlands
9084 (1.95%)
12Spain
7772 (1.67%)
13Switzerland
7601 (1.63%)
14Thailand
7005 (1.51%)
15Japan
6205 (1.33%)
16Mexico
4852 (1.04%)
17India
4836 (1.04%)
18Austria
4316 (0.93%)
19Singapore
3712 (0.80%)
20Indonesia
3641 (0.78%)
21Sweden
3138 (0.67%)
22Belgium
3074 (0.66%)
23Poland
3044 (0.65%)
24Finland
3011 (0.65%)
25Hong Kong
2878 (0.62%)

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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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