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The United Kingdom has 236 reachable Bitcoin nodes with a known location, the 6th most of any country, or 3.8% of all nodes on the map. With 3.4 nodes per million people, it ranks 20th of 41 countries with at least a million people and 10 nodes.
Nodes: snapshot of Nov 6, 2026, 18:44 UTC · ATMs: OpenStreetMap data of Nov 6, 2026, 12:41 UTC · updated automatically every day
The reachable nodes in the United Kingdom are spread over 21 areas of about 60 km. The busiest area holds 48% of them, and the three busiest together 72%. Most nodes are concentrated in a few areas.
Compared with Northern Europe
The United Kingdom has the most reachable nodes in Northern Europe. The 13 countries of Northern Europe with data have 648 nodes on the map together, of which the United Kingdom accounts for 36%, and 6 mapped ATMs.
| Country | Nodes | Per million | ATMs |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 236 | 3.4 | 0 |
| Finland | 199 | 35.24 | 5 |
| Sweden | 85 | 8.02 | 0 |
| Ireland | 38 | 6.93 | 0 |
| Lithuania | 25 | 8.65 | 1 |
| Norway | 23 | 4.1 | 0 |
| Denmark | 19 | 3.16 | 0 |
| Iceland | 8 | 20.39 | 0 |
| Latvia | 7 | 3.79 | 0 |
| Estonia | 3 | 2.2 | 0 |
| Isle of Man | 2 | 23.78 | 0 |
| Faroe Islands | 2 | 36.43 | 0 |
Node software
Bitcoin Core runs on 86% of reachable nodes in the United Kingdom and Bitcoin Knots on 12%, more than the 6% Knots share among all nodes on the map. The most common versions are Bitcoin Core 31.1 (27%), Bitcoin Knots (12%), Bitcoin Core 28.1 (11%).
How nodes connect
8% of the reachable nodes in the United Kingdom are reached over IPv6 and 92% over IPv4. Across all nodes on the map the IPv6 share is 10%.
Largest networks
The networks with the most reachable nodes in the United Kingdom are British Telecommunications PLC (22%), Virgin Media Limited (12%), Contabo GmbH (11%). Nodes in data centres are often placed where the provider is registered.
About these numbers
Node counts are reachable Bitcoin nodes (nodes that accept incoming connections) seen by the BTC Nodes crawler (btcnodes.io, an independent rebuild of Bitnodes) and placed by IP address with DB-IP Lite, so places are approximate. They are not the number of Bitcoin users. Nodes that run only over Tor, I2P or CJDNS have no location and are not counted for any country. ATMs are machines mapped by volunteers in OpenStreetMap. No node address is published.
Sources: node data BTC Nodes · IP Geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0) · ATM data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL · population: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Data files and licences: open data · privacy.
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