Other nodes

There are various other nodes on the Bitcoin network, each of them performing a specific set of functionalities from the offered functionalities in the Bitcoin network. Some nodes contain only the blockchain and routing functionalities. Some nodes only work as miners and do not contain the wallet.

There are other nonstandard nodes called pool protocol servers. These Nodes work on alternative protocols such as the stratum protocol. The stratum protocol works on TCP sockets and JSON-RPC to communicate among the nodes.