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Just for fun I started gathering IPs reported by bitcoin clients and make a database of unique ips and test which ones are live, which ones are not.

Since there are ~1200 bitcoin connected to the irc channel I was assuming to find a similar value, but right now I'm still querying nodes and got over 6000 nodes (for now about 25% are accepting inbound connections).

Anyway since it's probably not telling you much, I transformed the ips in coordinates, and made a google kml file anyone can see in google maps (suggested by slush_cz)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml

UPDATE: Now the node color on google maps tells you if that node accept connections or not.

• GREEN means the node has its firewall correctly configured and accept connections from other nodes
• RED means we were unable to connect to the node (it is either down, or do not accept connections)
• WHITE means the node is still in the queue, and will be checked soon

UPDATE 2: Now only nodes I heared about from other nodes within the last 3 hours are taken into account. The other nodes are excluded from the map and other stats (except versions)

You can also have a (json) overview of bitcoin versions across the network: https://smsz.net/btcStats/version (yep, still some 0.3.0 around)
http://geo.magicaltux.net/bitcoin.png

PS: another json feed: https://smsz.net/btcStats/accepting ("up" nodes are node accepting connections from outside, "rate_accepting" is the current ratio between nodes accepting and not accepting connections)

This is so COOL! Thanks!

WOWOWOWOWOWO!!! ;D

We have nodes in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Nigeria and China! Who would've guessed!

I am surprised the US capital have some concentration of bitcoin nodes. I don't know what that implies exactly. Maybe it's because internet connection is concentrated there?

Some dude in Nunavut.  Wow. 

Great map, very interesting.  Thanks for putting this together.

That is quite possible, because I live about 200 km away from Dublin, yet my connection on the map is shown as Dublin.

Very awesome!

If anyone wishes to tag a marker, there is the collaborative Bitcoin Map:
  http://www.bitcoinmap.com

Yes, it is Flash based.  The data is stored in KML though so it can be viewed with Google Maps:
  http://j.mp/bitcoinmap

MTux, make the dots bigger. I want to post this on a forum but you can hardly notice some points.

here you go!

That's perfect.

what are the white markers?

Untested nodes.

sorry, I am a newbee when it comes to understanding nodes and these kind of things.

can you explain what untested nodes means for a layman?

thanks so much!

It means nodes that had not been tested for whether or not they accept connections. Red mean down, green mean up, according to MT.

And "down" means that either the node is down (and will be removed within 24 hours) or that it's not accepting connections from outside (in which case it will be kept here, but in status "down", until its ip changes)

so if someone is running the client in a location, what does the color show if:
* the client is running with "generate" turned off?
* the client is running with "generate" turned on?
* the client is NOT running at all?

Cool! From the north of Norway to the south of Chile bitcoins are present! :D

Asia seems really underrepresented.

I would have expected more in Japan especially, given the number of internet users.

For comparison:

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc00/professional/papers/PAP552/p5521.jpg



and

World Connection Density:
  http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap

though this might be better for comparison:
  http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/2716/worldnet.jpg

We cannot know if a given client is currently generating.

However if the client is NOT running at all, the dot is red (and disappear within 3 hours)

Very cool, are locations generally accurate? I'm not seeing myself, but I almost always have bitcoin open.

http://www.maxmind.com/app/faq#accurate (I'm using the free city database)

Interesting, there are three within 25 miles of me, so maybe I am one of those.

If you think about it, bitcoin is pretty much everywhere the internet is.

if you want to know which then google "what is my ip", and go to the google maps link. scroll down for your ip address.

I'm in South Korea and I set up 2 machines running the client today. I see on the map that one of them has appeared. It's red on the map in the OP and white when I look at the google maps link.

If my client window says I have connections down at the bottom does that mean it will be green?

One machine is behind a firewall I don't have access to do anything to (work computer) and the other one isn't behind anything, so I think I should eventually see one green and one red point near my location. Am I understanding this right?

Make sure your firewall on the machine itself is configured to allow incoming connections on port 8333, then your machine will appear green. You'll get connections even if you didn't configure your firewall, but it's better to.

The map is "updated" every 30 minutes. If your node is white it may take some time until it is tested. If it's red it won't be tested again before at least 24 hours.

This image, or a variation of it, might be good for the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin). Unless you want to recommend another, would you care to license this image for use on the Wikipedia?

Looks like there is atleast one poor client in Thailand.  Poor fellow will have difficulties using ฿ for Bhat and Bitcoin.

People who use bitcoin are likely to have false IP addresses.  javascript:void(0);

This is all cool & dandy, but that link no longer works for me.

I wonder who the other maritimers are? Eh?

Filling out nicely!  http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml

http://c1958612.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/bitcoinmap.png

Nice. Is there an easy place to see the total unique nodes ever identified?

Holy crap!  I just took a look at that map about a week ago.  Amazing.

This map is amazing!  Spreading like wild fire!!!

Well, it's not that great once you make a zoom on specific areas.  There is only one node in London, for instance.

I actually think that those marks are way too big on the global mark.  This gives a false feeling.

It's a realy cool overview, but these huge blobs make it look like everybody in the world is using it. Don't think thats the case yet.

Probably there is Bruce's IP:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https:%2F%2Fsmsz.net%2FbtcStats%2Fbitcoin.kml&ie=UTF8&ll=40.762065,-73.976526&spn=0.008711,0.013754&t=h&z=16

Bitcoin is anonymous e-currency! :)

Lol, here's mine (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https:%2F%2Fsmsz.net%2FbtcStats%2Fbitcoin.kml&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=41.775792,-72.521181&spn=0.020387,0.030427&z=15&iwloc=lyrftr:kml:cXOw0bjKUdKKjwmPJhAjwsdLNZaZDaNQjAQ,g82b0d439ed315edc,41.777457,-72.523499,0,-32), I think. A little off though.

It's probably me. Bitcoin Pooled Mining server.

what is the link it does not work for me no more

Hey this is awesome. I am getting a lot of friends into Bitcoin here in Mexico. :P
Is there anyway to have stats shown such as the number of nodes in each country, nodes/capita ratio, etc?

Confirming you've found me, in Newcastle, UK :)

I think there is a bit of a bug in the map display.  If you click on some of the markers, it will say "1 of 2" or "2 of 3," etc.  However, you can never view the last IP of the set.  You can only view the first two out of three, for example.

very cool.

cannot find my IP address on the map and had bitcoin online for the last 4 days. does anyone know how frequently the map is refreshed ?

someone suggested to have a counter to indicate how many nodes are active. that would be very useful.

related to this, does anyone have an idea how many bitcoin users there are today ?

cheers

 You may have a marker but your location appears somewhere other than where you are looking.  Have you searched the KML to see if your IP Address exists?
  https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml (https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml)

Those running mining software only and not running a bitcoin node will not appear on the map.


See: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3149.0 (http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3149.0)

Here's an update to the image in first post:

1024x512:
https://i.imgur.com/WfNa4.png
1024x1024 (https://i.imgur.com/Pd2gr.jpg)

This map doesnt work anymore?

wow, India expected to be one of strongest contributors to society !! when you combine with specific of Hinduism/Buddhism specific things of society, you can see very interesting picture and business opportunities.

The server that collects the node data and hosts the KML file is managed by the operator of Mt. Gox so with everything going on with that I don't even know that he's aware of this outage. 

I have a .kml archived from a few weeks ago which I can post if that helps you at all.

Having a mirror would be great! thanks sgornick!

The KML is from June 14th, I believe: http://c1958612.r12.cf0.rackcdn.com/bitcoin.kml


The Google map using that KML:
  - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://c1958612.r12.cf0.rackcdn.com/bitcoin.kml

Hopefully the live one will be resumed.   If the downloads on this one causes my quota to be exceeded let me know and I'll try to find another location to host the file.

I hope it is up and running again soon

I think google maps can only display a max of 4000 'blobs' anyway, we've long passed that count.

so do we portscan these addresses since theres a good chance they have a wallet?

I beg your pardon? Most users do not port forward their apps. :/

EDIT: Does anyone know any other map provider which reads from a KML file? Looks like the file is up, just downloaded it, and google doesn't want to load it. Maybe it is too big?

I expect we'll see more markers in Greece soon.

Ok, looks like it is a file size limitation.  Because XML is so verbose, the only way I could get all markers to appear was to remove some of the data items.  

I removed the <description> tag which included IP: and Version: data items.
Without those, the <styleUrl> was no longer needed either.

  

$ cat "bitcoin.kml"|sed 's/<styleUrl>.*<\/styleUrl>//g'|sed 's/<description>.*<\/description>//g'

So now the file loads, but no longer do we have the red / green indicators:
 - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://c1958612.r12.cf0.rackcdn.com/bitcoin.kml

Look how much that map has filled out over the past few weeks ... very impressive!

Heh, I can see myself. All alone in hickville.

why I can never find my IP 217.139.64.173

I have been online for like 30 days now

Is it working now or just another backup file ? I mean is it live ?

The methods that are used to collect the data aren't described fully.  The wiki article does specify that "It is currently still unknown how reliable this information is."
  - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Map

There have been some developments including "split channel" for the IRC and DNSSeed, so it is possible the data collection method initially used is incompatible with the changes.


Google maps won't render the live data ( https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml ) , presumably because the KML data has grown too large:
  - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml

So that we have at least a relatively current working view of the map, I published a link with a snapshot from July 6th after ripping out all data except for ip address and location.
  - http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://c1958612.r12.cf0.rackcdn.com/bitcoin.kml

Would it be easy to subdivide the kml data into separate files based on regions?

Cool though one of them dots in US will prolly be me though I live in Australia. VPN is a beautiful thing.. 

Wait..no I might be that little green dot in New Zealand using the NZ-US node (I thought there would be more of us lol)

For the linked KML file
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml
I get a "File not found" error from Google maps:

AS stated, the official file is too big for Google Maps and won't read it.

Another version was made available with all the version and port information gone to save space.

I managed to get it to work by dowloading the KML directly and using the desktop google earth program, dam its lagging like crazy, did you get all these IP's off of the IRC?


And yes i did find my IP, however its marked at the front of my neighborhood instead of where i really am. Looks like there are more Bitcoiners around here than i thought.

Hey, could you make another release taking samples for three days of any node that showed up in the official kml? I would really appreciate it. :)

Going by the population map, it looks like our best bet for sustained growth is a marketing push in India, as they already have a bitcoin presence, but it's not nearly comparable to their population.

This seems to be working again.

Is it related to a huge drop in active clients as indicated by bitcoinstats?
http://bitcoinstats.org/count.html

Sorry to revive an old thread - is https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml being updated regularly?

How reliable do you think this data is? Compared to http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk/ it seems to show lower counts.

No, that kml no longer gets updated.

Rowit stopped updating mid-July.

There probably are some traders collecting this info but nobody is sharing it as far as I know.  

Here's one reason why:
 - http://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users

Electrum, BitcoinSpinner, and online hosted (shared) EWallets are another.

Sorry there's not much to go on to quantify if though.

What might be useful is to watch the growth of this metric:

"Total Unique Ip Addresses: 1,151,068.00"  - Bitcoin nodes blockchain.info has connected to in the past.
 - http://blockchain.info/ip-log

You can check this thread, it might give you a glimpse about bitcoin users http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2346.0

And this once again proves that bitcoin is unlimited. It really is suitable as a use as a global cryptocurrency, so we should do our best to develop it and use as much as possible on the territory of your country, if it is allowed by your government.