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


Global Bitcoin nodes

Updated: Mon Mar 31 20:00:00 2025 EDT

246223 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


153409

IPv4 @ 62.30%

73823

IPv6 @ 29.98%

18991

.onion @ 7.71%

170

Countries

10762

Cities

3528

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
55424 (24.39%)
2Germany
41446 (18.24%)
3China
15677 (6.90%)
4Canada
8507 (3.74%)
5Brazil
7927 (3.49%)
6United Kingdom
7222 (3.18%)
7Russian Federation
7219 (3.18%)
8Italy
6666 (2.93%)
9France
6292 (2.77%)
10Netherlands
5404 (2.38%)
All (170)

Cities

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

RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 18437 (8.11%)
2Germany Berlin
4532 (1.99%)
3Germany Frankfurt am Main
2670 (1.18%)
4Germany Munich
2363 (1.04%)
5Switzerland Zurich
2235 (0.98%)
6Germany Hamburg
1987 (0.87%)
7The Netherlands Amsterdam
1906 (0.84%)
8Italy Milan
1807 (0.80%)
9United States Chicago
1776 (0.78%)
10Canada Toronto
1764 (0.78%)
All (10762)

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
245265 (99.61%)
2NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED
243763 (99.00%)
3NODE_NETWORK
174909 (71.04%)
4NODE_P2P_V2
162898 (66.16%)
5NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS
45845 (18.62%)
6NODE_BLOOM
25840 (10.49%)
All (6)

Port numbers

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

RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
18333
240998 (97.88%)
239388
2680 (1.09%)
38335
252 (0.10%)
48332
223 (0.09%)
512333
220 (0.09%)
69333
182 (0.07%)
78334
133 (0.05%)
88303
63 (0.03%)
924081
56 (0.02%)
108331
52 (0.02%)
All (425)

Join the Network

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Use this tool to check if your Bitcoin client is currently accepting incoming connections from other nodes. Port must be between 1024 and 65535.