Bitcoin network

Bitcoin Public Nodes

BTCNodes helps you explore public Bitcoin nodes that appear reachable from the network. Use the node atlas to review peers, countries, client versions, network types, quality hints, and manual addnode lines.

What is a public Bitcoin node?

A public Bitcoin node is a Bitcoin Core or compatible peer that can be reached by other peers on the Bitcoin network. Public nodes help relay blocks and transactions, serve peer discovery, and strengthen the network by increasing connectivity.

What BTCNodes shows

BTCNodes focuses on practical node visibility: reachable peers, observed country hints, client information, service flags, latency hints, confidence labels, and copyable connection lines.

Important limits

Public node data is observational. Nodes can disappear, restart, change IPs, fall behind, block crawlers, or sit behind network setups that make them hard to classify.

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