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


Global Bitcoin nodes

Updated: Sat Feb 22 19:00:00 2025 EST

237806 nodes

Window size: 30-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


149820

IPv4 @ 63.00%

69219

IPv6 @ 29.11%

18767

.onion @ 7.89%

163

Countries

10698

Cities

2950

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
52205 (23.83%)
2Germany
38870 (17.75%)
3China
16689 (7.62%)
4Canada
8626 (3.94%)
5Brazil
7896 (3.60%)
6United Kingdom
7385 (3.37%)
7Russian Federation
7283 (3.32%)
8Italy
6107 (2.79%)
9France
5957 (2.72%)
10Netherlands
5366 (2.45%)
All (163)

Cities

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

RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 19260 (8.79%)
2Germany Berlin
4181 (1.91%)
3Germany Frankfurt am Main
2405 (1.10%)
4Canada Toronto
2233 (1.02%)
5Switzerland Zurich
1983 (0.91%)
6Germany Munich
1926 (0.88%)
7United States New York
1912 (0.87%)
8The Netherlands Amsterdam
1852 (0.85%)
9United States Chicago
1799 (0.82%)
10Germany Hamburg
1798 (0.82%)
All (10698)

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
234928 (98.79%)
2NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED
233701 (98.27%)
3NODE_NETWORK
167218 (70.32%)
4NODE_P2P_V2
147942 (62.21%)
5NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS
41503 (17.45%)
6NODE_BLOOM
27413 (11.53%)
All (6)

Port numbers

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

RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
18333
232739 (97.87%)
239388
2669 (1.12%)
312333
233 (0.10%)
48332
218 (0.09%)
58335
195 (0.08%)
69333
163 (0.07%)
78334
119 (0.05%)
88331
76 (0.03%)
918333
48 (0.02%)
1024081
44 (0.02%)
All (448)

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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.