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


Global Bitcoin nodes by port number

547 port numbers with their respective number of global Bitcoin nodes as of Tue Dec 24 19:00:00 2024 EST.

Window size: 90-day

NODES501101
COUNTRIES180
CITIES12620
ASNS3284
SERVICES6
PORT NUMBERS547

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RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
265530
37 (0.01%)
279000
36 (0.01%)
287333
32 (0.01%)
2938330
31 (0.01%)
2961754
31 (0.01%)
308303
30 (0.01%)
3160250
29 (0.01%)
328885
22 (0.01%)
3257477
22 (0.01%)
338336
21 (0.01%)
348442
20 (0.01%)
3518332
19 (0.01%)
3518889
19 (0.01%)
3556589
19 (0.01%)
368033
17 (0.01%)
368639
17 (0.01%)
3628333
17 (0.01%)
3717334
16 (0.01%)
3726388
16 (0.01%)
385001
15 (0.01%)
3830034
15 (0.01%)
3850021
15 (0.01%)
3854886
15 (0.01%)
3864324
15 (0.01%)
3927603
14 (0.01%)

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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.


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