Bitnodes estimates the relative size of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network by finding all of its reachable nodes.


Global Bitcoin nodes

Updated: Mon Dec 23 19:00:00 2024 EST

240670 nodes

Window size: 30-day

This page reports the estimated size of the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network including both reachable and unreachable nodes, i.e. global nodes. Unlike the low churn rate estimation method for reachable nodes (see the latest snapshot here), the method for this report can only provide a rough estimation and does not filter out potentially spurious nodes that may be gossiped by non-standard/spam/malicious peers.

Bitnodes crawler captures these nodes from the addr messages returned by all the reachable nodes. Each snapshot or data point in this report represents a rolling window. A snapshot with window size of 1 day will include all nodes by IP addresses with timestamps less than 1 day old. The timestamp for a node here refers to the time when its peer last connects to it. If you turn on your Bitcoin node for only a few minutes anytime during the last 24 hours, it will be included in the latest snapshot with a window size of 1 day.

Multiple nodes from the same IP address, but different port numbers are counted as one node in this report. A larger window size may increase the likelihood of the same node being counted more than once due to e.g. IP lease renewal.

A Bitcoin node may be unreachable for several reasons. It may be configured by the operator to only attempt to make outgoing connections or it may be located behind corporate/ISP firewalls or NAT. A node could also become temporarily unreachable if it has hit its maximum allowed connections or if it is in the process of syncing up to the latest blocks. As it is impossible to connect to an unreachable node directly, we cannot reliably confirm the true existence of an unreachable node, hence the rough estimation.

View distribution by: COUNTRIES / CITIES / ASNS / SERVICES / PORT NUMBERS


149581

IPv4 @ 62.15%

73184

IPv6 @ 30.41%

17905

.onion @ 7.44%

170

Countries

10328

Cities

2966

ASNs

United States

Country #1

Germany Berlin

City #1

AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG

ASN #1


Countries

Top 10 countries with their respective number of IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes.

RANKCOUNTRYNODES
1United States
51301 (23.03%)
2Germany
38801 (17.42%)
3China
20136 (9.04%)
4Brazil
8492 (3.81%)
5Russian Federation
8042 (3.61%)
6United Kingdom
7818 (3.51%)
7Canada
7516 (3.37%)
8France
6163 (2.77%)
9Italy
5549 (2.49%)
10Netherlands
5109 (2.29%)
All (170)

Cities

Top 10 cities with their respective number of IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes.

RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 21841 (9.80%)
2Germany Berlin
4083 (1.83%)
3Germany Frankfurt am Main
2641 (1.19%)
4Germany Hamburg
2139 (0.96%)
5Switzerland Zurich
2116 (0.95%)
6Russia Moscow
1852 (0.83%)
7Germany Düsseldorf
1776 (0.80%)
8Germany Munich
1694 (0.76%)
9The Netherlands Amsterdam
1679 (0.75%)
10Australia Sydney
1671 (0.75%)
All (10328)

ASNs

Top 10 ASNs with their respective number of IPv4/IPv6 Bitcoin nodes.


Services

Top 6 services (based on services field in addr message) with their respective number of Bitcoin nodes. Each node may advertise one or more of these services.

RANKSERVICENODES
1NODE_WITNESS
237505 (98.68%)
2NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED
237179 (98.55%)
3NODE_NETWORK
168651 (70.08%)
4NODE_P2P_V2
131935 (54.82%)
5NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS
36336 (15.10%)
6NODE_BLOOM
32108 (13.34%)
All (6)

Port numbers

Top 10 port numbers with their respective number of Bitcoin nodes.

RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
18333
235795 (97.97%)
239388
2326 (0.97%)
312333
243 (0.10%)
48332
230 (0.10%)
59333
225 (0.09%)
68335
159 (0.07%)
78334
150 (0.06%)
88555
67 (0.03%)
918333
56 (0.02%)
108433
50 (0.02%)
All (430)

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