BitMEX Research reports Bitnod.es now holds 26,027 Bitcoin node addresses, surpassing the old bitnodes.io database.

According to BitMEX Research, the team launched a basic website that tracks the reported Bitcoin clients used by the live active peers of some of their nodes, providing a dataset derived from their nodes’ connected peers rather than a full network crawl (source: BitMEX Research on X, Nov 4, 2025). BitMEX Research stated this approach differs from Bitnodes, which crawls the network to identify all reachable nodes, so figures from the two methods are not directly comparable (source: BitMEX Research on X, Nov 4, 2025). For trading desks monitoring BTC network infrastructure, this offers an additional reference point for observing client usage distributions based on peer-reported data from BitMEX Research’s nodes (source: BitMEX Research on X, Nov 4, 2025).