Author: John Naulty Jr.
bitnode.io collects information on bitcoin peers and offers their API for free.
The creator has the source code for this project hosted on github at ayeowch/bitnodes.
Before I started running this code, I wanted to play around with the API.
These are the preliminary results.
Most popular country is the US Most popular network is Tor
Country code Organization name
count 9234 9234
unique 96 1034
top US Tor network
freq 1854 1544
Tor network 0.167208
Hetzner Online GmbH 0.110461
Amazon.com, Inc. 0.076998
DigitalOcean, LLC 0.052415
OVH SAS 0.051115
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC 0.021009
Contabo GmbH 0.019710
Google LLC 0.018302
Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd. 0.014620
Charter Communications Inc 0.013537
Name: Organization name, dtype: float64
us_intersection["NAME"].value_counts(normalize=True).nlargest(10)California 0.199674
Virginia 0.105550
New Jersey 0.088139
Kansas 0.080522
Ohio 0.065832
Oregon 0.057671
Texas 0.054407
New York 0.044614
Washington 0.026115
Florida 0.024483
Name: NAME, dtype: float64
us_intersection[["NAME", "Organization name"]].groupby('NAME').describe()
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| Organization name | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| count | unique | top | freq | |
| NAME | ||||
| Alabama | 11 | 5 | WideOpenWest Finance LLC | 4 |
| Arizona | 27 | 12 | Cox Communications Inc. | 9 |
| Arkansas | 1 | 1 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 1 |
| California | 367 | 43 | Google LLC | 71 |
| Colorado | 25 | 7 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 13 |
| Connecticut | 10 | 5 | Cablevision Systems Corp. | 3 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | 4 | MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizo... | 2 |
| Florida | 45 | 14 | Charter Communications, Inc | 11 |
| Georgia | 32 | 8 | AT&T Services, Inc. | 13 |
| Idaho | 5 | 3 | Cable One | 2 |
| Illinois | 30 | 11 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 15 |
| Indiana | 4 | 3 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 2 |
| Iowa | 6 | 5 | Mediacom Communications Corp | 2 |
| Kansas | 148 | 50 | Hurricane Electric LLC | 22 |
| Kentucky | 2 | 2 | Charter Communications Inc | 1 |
| Louisiana | 1 | 1 | AT&T Services, Inc. | 1 |
| Maine | 5 | 2 | Charter Communications Inc | 4 |
| Maryland | 31 | 5 | MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizo... | 17 |
| Massachusetts | 37 | 8 | Boston University | 13 |
| Michigan | 23 | 6 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 12 |
| Minnesota | 13 | 7 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 4 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 1 | BCI Mississippi Broadband,LLC | 1 |
| Missouri | 35 | 10 | Charter Communications | 8 |
| Montana | 2 | 2 | Charter Communications | 1 |
| Nebraska | 2 | 2 | Cox Communications Inc. | 1 |
| Nevada | 21 | 10 | Cox Communications Inc. | 8 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | 3 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 8 |
| New Jersey | 162 | 8 | DigitalOcean, LLC | 128 |
| New Mexico | 2 | 2 | TULAROSA COMMUNICATIONS, INC. | 1 |
| New York | 82 | 19 | Charter Communications Inc | 20 |
| North Carolina | 26 | 5 | Charter Communications Inc | 11 |
| North Dakota | 1 | 1 | Cable One | 1 |
| Ohio | 121 | 8 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 96 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | 3 | Cox Communications Inc. | 3 |
| Oregon | 106 | 10 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 86 |
| Pennsylvania | 38 | 12 | MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizo... | 15 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 2 | Cox Communications Inc. | 3 |
| South Carolina | 14 | 9 | Charter Communications Inc | 3 |
| Tennessee | 7 | 5 | Charter Communications | 2 |
| Texas | 100 | 22 | Charter Communications Inc | 24 |
| Utah | 10 | 4 | Unified Layer | 5 |
| Vermont | 3 | 3 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 1 |
| Virginia | 194 | 12 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 104 |
| Washington | 48 | 13 | Comcast Cable Communications, LLC | 21 |
| West Virginia | 1 | 1 | Reliable Hosting Services | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | 5 | Charter Communications Inc | 6 |
| Wyoming | 3 | 2 | Charter Communications | 2 |