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

276 port numbers with their respective number of global Bitcoin nodes as of Thu May 16 20:00:00 2024 EDT.

Window size: 1-day

NODES61348
COUNTRIES138
CITIES6467
ASNS2226
SERVICES5
PORT NUMBERS276

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RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
1 8333 58909 (96.02%)
2 39388 1274 (2.08%)
3 8332 138 (0.22%)
4 9333 94 (0.15%)
5 8334 66 (0.11%)
6 8335 46 (0.07%)
7 18333 42 (0.07%)
8 8433 35 (0.06%)
9 8331 30 (0.05%)
10 10001 29 (0.05%)
11 8885 28 (0.05%)
12 8444 24 (0.04%)
13 8555 23 (0.04%)
14 20008 22 (0.04%)
15 7333 19 (0.03%)
16 8330 18 (0.03%)
17 8446 17 (0.03%)
18 8338 14 (0.02%)
19 8336 13 (0.02%)
19 30034 13 (0.02%)
20 8303 12 (0.02%)
20 11080 12 (0.02%)
21 8033 11 (0.02%)
21 12900 11 (0.02%)
22 8337 10 (0.02%)

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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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