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


Global Bitcoin nodes

Updated: Sat Dec 21 19:00:00 2024 EST

118842 nodes

Window size: 7-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


74487

IPv4 @ 62.68%

28726

IPv6 @ 24.17%

15629

.onion @ 13.15%

156

Countries

8324

Cities

2673

ASNs

United States

Country #1

Germany Frankfurt am Main

City #1

AS7922 COMCAST-7922

ASN #1


Countries

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

RANKCOUNTRYNODES
1United States
26006 (25.20%)
2Germany
16408 (15.90%)
3China
10348 (10.03%)
4Canada
4065 (3.94%)
5United Kingdom
3644 (3.53%)
6France
3267 (3.17%)
7Brazil
3195 (3.10%)
8Russian Federation
3175 (3.08%)
9Netherlands
2793 (2.71%)
10Australia
1990 (1.93%)
All (156)

Cities

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

RANKCITYNODES
1 n/a 13251 (12.84%)
2Germany Frankfurt am Main
1550 (1.50%)
3Germany Berlin
1509 (1.46%)
4Germany Düsseldorf
1492 (1.45%)
5Switzerland Zurich
979 (0.95%)
6Singapore Singapore
905 (0.88%)
7Finland Helsinki
899 (0.87%)
8Germany Falkenstein
897 (0.87%)
9The Netherlands Amsterdam
870 (0.84%)
10Canada Toronto
798 (0.77%)
All (8324)

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_NETWORK_LIMITED
117662 (99.01%)
2NODE_WITNESS
116758 (98.25%)
3NODE_NETWORK
85632 (72.06%)
4NODE_P2P_V2
62210 (52.35%)
5NODE_BLOOM
22493 (18.93%)
6NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS
18566 (15.62%)
All (6)

Port numbers

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

RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
18333
115271 (97.00%)
239388
1967 (1.66%)
38332
186 (0.16%)
412333
181 (0.15%)
59333
99 (0.08%)
68335
81 (0.07%)
78334
61 (0.05%)
818333
50 (0.04%)
98433
41 (0.03%)
108555
37 (0.03%)
All (332)

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.