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


Global Bitcoin nodes

Updated: Thu May 9 20:00:00 2024 EDT

59808 nodes

Window size: 1-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


37511

IPv4 @ 62.72%

8912

IPv6 @ 14.90%

13385

.onion @ 22.38%

136

Countries

6615

Cities

2237

ASNs

United States

Country #1

Finland Helsinki

City #1

AS7922 COMCAST-7922

ASN #1


Countries

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

RANKCOUNTRYNODES
1 United States 13307 (28.66%)
2 Germany 6134 (13.21%)
3 China 3563 (7.68%)
4 Canada 1872 (4.03%)
5 United Kingdom 1754 (3.78%)
6 Netherlands 1604 (3.46%)
7 France 1533 (3.30%)
8 Russian Federation 1277 (2.75%)
9 Brazil 1160 (2.50%)
10 Australia 1007 (2.17%)
All (136)

Cities

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

RANKCITYNODES
1n/a6614 (14.25%)
2Finland Helsinki707 (1.52%)
3Singapore Singapore690 (1.49%)
4Germany Frankfurt am Main687 (1.48%)
5United States Ashburn601 (1.29%)
6China Changsha494 (1.06%)
7Japan Tokyo475 (1.02%)
8The Netherlands Amsterdam468 (1.01%)
9United States Los Angeles445 (0.96%)
10United Kingdom London421 (0.91%)
All (6615)

ASNs

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

RANKASNNODES
1AS7922 COMCAST-7922 2232 (4.81%)
2AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH 2035 (4.38%)
3AS16509 AMAZON-02 2023 (4.36%)
4AS7018 ATT-INTERNET4 1383 (2.98%)
5AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG 1038 (2.24%)
6AS4134 Chinanet 1021 (2.20%)
7AS56047 China Mobile communications corporation 954 (2.06%)
8AS14061 DIGITALOCEAN-ASN 908 (1.96%)
9AS396982 GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM 779 (1.68%)
10AS16276 OVH SAS 778 (1.68%)
All (2237)

Services

Top 5 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
1 NODE_WITNESS 59510 (99.50%)
2 NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED 59114 (98.84%)
3 NODE_NETWORK 49875 (83.39%)
4 NODE_BLOOM 14338 (23.97%)
5 NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS 11407 (19.07%)
All (5)

Port numbers

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

RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
1 8333 57442 (96.04%)
2 39388 1229 (2.05%)
3 8332 144 (0.24%)
4 9333 89 (0.15%)
5 8334 58 (0.10%)
6 18333 50 (0.08%)
7 8335 48 (0.08%)
8 8433 35 (0.06%)
9 20008 29 (0.05%)
10 10001 28 (0.05%)
All (274)

Join the Network

Be part of the Bitcoin network by running a Bitcoin full node, e.g. Bitcoin Core.

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