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


Global Bitcoin nodes

Updated: Sat May 18 20:00:00 2024 EDT

61364 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


39019

IPv4 @ 63.59%

8930

IPv6 @ 14.55%

13415

.onion @ 21.86%

137

Countries

6436

Cities

2238

ASNs

United States

Country #1

China Shanghai

City #1

AS4134 Chinanet

ASN #1


Countries

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

RANKCOUNTRYNODES
1 United States 12909 (26.92%)
2 China 6627 (13.82%)
3 Germany 5962 (12.43%)
4 Canada 1738 (3.62%)
5 United Kingdom 1701 (3.55%)
6 Netherlands 1573 (3.28%)
7 France 1504 (3.14%)
8 Russian Federation 1298 (2.71%)
9 Brazil 1049 (2.19%)
10 Australia 926 (1.93%)
All (137)

Cities

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

RANKCITYNODES
1n/a7668 (15.99%)
2China Shanghai893 (1.86%)
3Germany Frankfurt am Main744 (1.55%)
4Singapore Singapore679 (1.42%)
5Finland Helsinki640 (1.33%)
6United States Ashburn585 (1.22%)
7Japan Tokyo501 (1.04%)
8China Guangzhou486 (1.01%)
9The Netherlands Amsterdam445 (0.93%)
10United States Los Angeles433 (0.90%)
All (6436)

ASNs

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

RANKASNNODES
1AS4134 Chinanet 3900 (8.13%)
2AS7922 COMCAST-7922 2188 (4.56%)
3AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH 2014 (4.20%)
4AS16509 AMAZON-02 1970 (4.11%)
5AS7018 ATT-INTERNET4 1305 (2.72%)
6AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG 978 (2.04%)
7AS14061 DIGITALOCEAN-ASN 906 (1.89%)
8AS56047 China Mobile communications corporation 803 (1.67%)
9AS396982 GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM 782 (1.63%)
10AS16276 OVH SAS 778 (1.62%)
All (2238)

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 61056 (99.50%)
2 NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED 56657 (92.33%)
3 NODE_NETWORK 52178 (85.03%)
4 NODE_BLOOM 18365 (29.93%)
5 NODE_COMPACT_FILTERS 11294 (18.40%)
All (5)

Port numbers

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

RANKPORT NUMBERNODES
1 8333 58892 (95.97%)
2 39388 1269 (2.07%)
3 8332 147 (0.24%)
4 9333 105 (0.17%)
5 8334 75 (0.12%)
6 18333 53 (0.09%)
7 8335 39 (0.06%)
7 8433 39 (0.06%)
8 8331 31 (0.05%)
9 8885 27 (0.04%)
9 10001 27 (0.04%)
10 20008 25 (0.04%)
All (285)

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