How soon public nodes pass on a new block, measured from the first node to announce it. Every hour our sensors in Nuremberg, New York and Singapore listen to every public node for five minutes, and take off the time it takes to reach each node.
48 msthe typical public node is behind the first to announce a block
53.2%pass it on within 50 ms
Blocks reach Europe first. Nodes in Oceania hear of them 320 ms later, about the time a block takes to cross the world: most nodes, and so most first announcements, are in Europe.
By country
Median, countries with at least 3 nodes, sooner first
265 public nodes measured since 16 Oct 2026; 34 are in countries with fewer than 3 nodes or kept private, and count only towards the network's figures. Block relay is shown on node pages but not scored yet. How scoring works. Latest crawl .