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


Global Bitcoin nodes

Updated: Mon May 29 20:00:00 2023 EDT

45121 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


26976

IPv4 @ 59.79%

6593

IPv6 @ 14.61%

11552

.onion @ 25.60%

135

Countries

5698

Cities

2104

ASNs

United States

Country #1

Germany Frankfurt am Main

City #1

AS16509 AMAZON-02

ASN #1


Countries

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

RANKCOUNTRYNODES
1 United States 10106 (30.11%)
2 Germany 4541 (13.53%)
3 China 1510 (4.50%)
4 Canada 1435 (4.27%)
5 Netherlands 1397 (4.16%)
6 Russian Federation 1356 (4.04%)
7 France 1226 (3.65%)
8 United Kingdom 1138 (3.39%)
9 Japan 663 (1.98%)
10 Australia 648 (1.93%)
All (135)

Cities

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

RANKCITYNODES
1n/a5105 (15.21%)
2Germany Frankfurt am Main609 (1.81%)
3United States Ashburn576 (1.72%)
4Finland Helsinki507 (1.51%)
5Netherlands Amsterdam443 (1.32%)
6Japan Tokyo394 (1.17%)
7Russia Moscow380 (1.13%)
8Switzerland Zurich294 (0.88%)
9Australia Sydney260 (0.77%)
9Ireland Dublin260 (0.77%)
10Germany Nuremberg249 (0.74%)
All (5698)

ASNs

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

RANKASNNODES
1AS16509 AMAZON-02 1740 (5.18%)
2AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH 1717 (5.11%)
3AS7922 COMCAST-7922 1622 (4.83%)
4AS14061 DIGITALOCEAN-ASN 981 (2.92%)
5AS7018 ATT-INTERNET4 978 (2.91%)
6AS16276 OVH SAS 728 (2.17%)
7AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG 713 (2.12%)
8AS396982 GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM 656 (1.95%)
9AS701 UUNET 583 (1.74%)
10AS4134 Chinanet 574 (1.71%)
All (2104)

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 44944 (99.61%)
2 NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED 44800 (99.29%)
3 NODE_NETWORK 37550 (83.22%)
4 NODE_BLOOM 14021 (31.07%)
5 NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS 5283 (11.71%)
All (5)

Port numbers

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

RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
1 8333 42891 (95.06%)
2 39388 997 (2.21%)
3 8332 136 (0.30%)
4 8335 89 (0.20%)
5 8334 88 (0.20%)
6 8885 54 (0.12%)
7 18333 44 (0.10%)
8 8446 39 (0.09%)
9 8331 38 (0.08%)
10 8444 35 (0.08%)
All (298)

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.