Every orange dot is a reachable Bitcoin node — a computer keeping the full notebook and checking every rule. Spin it, zoom it, click a dot.
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Reading the globe
1. No capital city. The swarm has no headquarters — it's thickest where internet and electricity are cheap, and it's on every inhabited continent. This picture is the practical answer to “governments will just ban it”: which government, exactly, and what about all the others?
2. You're looking at the visible minority. This map shows only nodes that accept incoming connections. Most nodes — home machines behind routers, and thousands more on Tor, invisible by design — don't appear here at all. The real swarm is several times what any map can show. (And that's why clicking a dot shows a node's city and software, but never its address — this site doesn't help locate node runners.)
3. Any dot is enough. Every single dot independently enforces the 21 million cap and every other rule. If all but one vanished, the notebook would survive on that one. Adding your own dot costs about $200 — and then this page is a picture of something you're part of.