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

500737 nodes

Window size: 90-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


308955

IPv4 @ 61.70%

170035

IPv6 @ 33.96%

21747

.onion @ 4.34%

180

Countries

12616

Cities

3285

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
106453 (22.22%)
2Germany
88333 (18.44%)
3China
37914 (7.92%)
4Brazil
19474 (4.07%)
5Russian Federation
18372 (3.84%)
6United Kingdom
15871 (3.31%)
7Canada
15166 (3.17%)
8Italy
14845 (3.10%)
9France
12363 (2.58%)
10Australia
10126 (2.11%)
All (180)

Cities

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

RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 37866 (7.91%)
2Germany Berlin
9863 (2.06%)
3Germany Hamburg
5360 (1.12%)
4Germany Frankfurt am Main
5015 (1.05%)
5Russia Moscow
4372 (0.91%)
6Thailand Bangkok
4292 (0.90%)
7Switzerland Zurich
4281 (0.89%)
8Germany Munich
4197 (0.88%)
9Australia Sydney
3909 (0.82%)
10Italy Milan
3745 (0.78%)
All (12616)

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
495755 (99.01%)
2NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED
492580 (98.37%)
3NODE_NETWORK
350307 (69.96%)
4NODE_P2P_V2
265786 (53.08%)
5NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS
78536 (15.68%)
6NODE_BLOOM
48272 (9.64%)
All (6)

Port numbers

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

RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
18333
491997 (98.25%)
239388
3148 (0.63%)
39333
593 (0.12%)
48555
588 (0.12%)
58335
426 (0.09%)
68332
357 (0.07%)
78334
310 (0.06%)
812333
268 (0.05%)
98338
244 (0.05%)
1018333
174 (0.03%)
All (537)

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.