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


Global Bitcoin nodes by country

140 countries with their respective number of global IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes as of Wed May 8 20:00:00 2024 EDT.

Window size: 1-day

NODES61071
COUNTRIES140
CITIES6653
ASNS2250
SERVICES5
PORT NUMBERS281

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RANKCOUNTRYNODES
1 United States 13875 (29.13%)
2 Germany 6322 (13.27%)
3 China 3550 (7.45%)
4 Canada 1961 (4.12%)
5 United Kingdom 1900 (3.99%)
6 Netherlands 1636 (3.44%)
7 France 1591 (3.34%)
8 Russian Federation 1260 (2.65%)
9 Brazil 1222 (2.57%)
10 Australia 1042 (2.19%)
11 Switzerland 890 (1.87%)
12 Singapore 853 (1.79%)
13 Japan 852 (1.79%)
14 Finland 821 (1.72%)
15 Italy 709 (1.49%)
16 Spain 700 (1.47%)
17 Hong Kong 689 (1.45%)
18 Sweden 432 (0.91%)
19 Korea (the Republic of) 410 (0.86%)
20 Czechia 396 (0.83%)
21 Poland 356 (0.75%)
22 Austria 352 (0.74%)
23 Portugal 300 (0.63%)
24 Ireland 296 (0.62%)
25 India 290 (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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