# on receiving block 960655 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-08-02T01:21:15Z # as written in the block header 2026-08-02T01:20:54Z $ uptime # since last reboot 01:21:15 up 36 days, 17:52, 0 users, load average: 2.57, 2.43, 2.02 $ battery.sh 142%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1571408 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.4G .bitcoin/indexes 4.8G .bitcoin/signet 87.9M .bitcoin/wallets 97.8G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.7G .bitcoin/chainstate 126.0G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.8G 475.6G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v31.1.0 bitcoind Copyright (C) 2009-2026 The Bitcoin Core developers Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit for further information about the software. The source code is available from . This is experimental software. Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or $ BC=$(bitcoin-cli getblockcount); echo $BC 960655 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 960655); echo $BH 00000000000000000001eefae22e1e75a3bd5c3f629e81e9358c667f11cd601d $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000001eefae22e1e75a3bd5c3f629e81e9358c667f11cd601d { "hash": "00000000000000000001eefae22e1e75a3bd5c3f629e81e9358c667f11cd601d", "confirmations": 1, "height": 960655, "version": 537092096, "versionHex": "20036000", "merkleroot": "77d2e8f6a217fe9dba4d0b17ce2877888678f6721daf58156c803084e2956363", "time": 1785633654, "mediantime": 1785631752, "nonce": 4264839059, "bits": "17023ad4", "target": "000000000000000000023ad40000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 126231507121868.2, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000013c46d29a13da65d635450430", "nTx": 5060, "previousblockhash": "0000000000000000000206dc6aac2a351e72ca250d7275e734077982fca98bf1" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 eefa e22e 1e75 a3bd 5c3f 629e 81e9 358c 667f 11cd 6.1d $ : Following was the shortform $ : from which shortkode came $ last=${BH: -4} $ a=$(echo $BH | cut -b-60 \ | fold -w 4 \ | grep -Ev '^(0000|[^0]{4})$') $ R=$(echo $a $last | cut -b-20) $ printf "%s sf: " $BC $ { echo $R | grep "$last$" \ || echo $R M; } | tr "0\n" ". " echo 960655 sf: ...1 6.1d $ : Following was the shortkode $ : from which anecdote came $ nz=$(echo $BH | fold -w 4 \ | grep -cE '^[^0]{4}$') $ z=$(echo $BH | fold -w 4 \ | grep -c '^0000$') $ nzzs=$(((${nz}<<4)+${z})) $ printf "%s sk: " $BC $ printf "%s %x\n" \ $last \ $nzzs \ | tr 0 . 960655 sk: 6.1d a4 $ : Following is an anecdote $ all=$(echo $BH | fold -w 4 \ | sed 's/^/0x/' \ | paste -s | tr '\t' ^) $ printf "%s ak: " $BC $ printf "%04x %02x\n" \ $(($all)) $nzzs \ | tr 0 . 960655 ak: 2c76 a4 $ : Following is the jointkode 960655 jk: 601d 2c76 a4 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 80168, "bytes": 41447136, "usage": 230941024, "total_fee": 0.06987851, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 0, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 168 ## Current epoch estimation is +0.48% ## 1039 of 2016, i.e. 51%, 977 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.067603110175259e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 959615 9.024150401602381e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 957599 9.102434559868438e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 960655, "bestblock": "00000000000000000001eefae22e1e75a3bd5c3f629e81e9358c667f11cd601d", "txouts": 166036649, "bogosize": 13003394166, "muhash": "98440377c986c4b0194db58995efa720d64b40c75e349c17214899cc50c3c094", "total_amount": 20064319.88557322, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.11442678, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 2704.95320219, "coinbase": 3.13517294, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 2704.94302925, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 960655 { "avgfee": 201, "avgfeerate": 1, "avgtxsize": 368, "blockhash": "00000000000000000001eefae22e1e75a3bd5c3f629e81e9358c667f11cd601d", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 2 ], "height": 960655, "ins": 7934, "maxfee": 74400, "maxfeerate": 301, "maxtxsize": 334584, "medianfee": 48, "mediantime": 1785631752, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 10, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 94, "outs": 10677, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1784618, "swtotal_weight": 3665036, "swtxs": 4303, "time": 1785633654, "total_out": 270494302925, "total_size": 1866348, "total_weight": 3991956, "totalfee": 1017294, "txs": 5060, "utxo_increase": 2743, "utxo_size_inc": 177045, "utxo_increase_actual": -1666, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -138650 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 8764218910, "totalbytessent": 24885403909, "timemillis": 1785633675933, "uploadtarget": { "timeframe": 86400, "target": 0, "target_reached": false, "serve_historical_blocks": true, "bytes_left_in_cycle": 0, "time_left_in_cycle": 0 } } $ bitcoin-cli -netinfo Bitcoin Core client v31.1.0 - server 70016/Satoshi:31.1.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 17 2 19 out 10 0 10 2 total 27 2 29 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 67615, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 67615 } } $ halving.sh 960655 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=960655 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1785633654 This is average time to mine a block (1785633654-1231006505)/960655 bts=577.3420964424310054795889 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Tue Mar 21 01:51:23 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 961169 predicted to happen at this time: Wed Aug 5 11:46:47 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 476. The next fortnight happens in block 961632 and probably around this time: Sat Aug 8 14:01:57 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 12 "transport_protocol_type": "v2", $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo \ | jq -r '.[] | select ( .transport_protocol_type == "v2" ) | .addr + " " + .session_id' \ | while read addr sid do a=$(echo ${addr%\]*} | tr -d '\[' | md5sum | cut -b-16); printf "%s\n\t%s\n" "$a" "$sid" done f9a06261edce8dc9 2610ff524e0abdf6c27737891cdcaf06c9ea4df1ac1815b862c8d11add8db95c 297f463b31c725d2 5608643d0d465713517b6394e35bd7ba67054cc696994f158939088d73a639b7 c0ac423b2068ba09 1a2539bd381e8cf666a18455f349eb035fa1e79e05ab179576c8205d62428727 975cf581f811427c f406bfbcecf80bc26827289ba4d1aeb41844117a9d6b1dd4e22daaab81656cb1 8b7d27d2adf0b93c bdb1f3524d85e552e5d1e6d3ee389125368db5b2a294e26e9cb3a874100f956f 62d32ad16bbf4add 48d970bfdeafeabfe02245a30ec9096bc619c31222b6b8419001bbe502963f01 cb47ff9afc92a152 743aa78c406c6edcb42be3dd898591db436c9b6a56bc3767a8ab7ace8279cb48 890f83f97aa59b6b 15df5642bbd3240551e6932d90350a124a2e9c7768a3435210fe785f4749f8bb 93387a15f090348f adc54b3dbf3de3cdb2b1e90838bd0c66988303cb30d7720132660bdda1b9a5b1 12a6e8d83c7a28a9 d1bc09e119284cecce0c4271014c32662522bf14d4dee86efe157e59274ec8a6 2cb8daafba55905c 0e4222a1a16d5de5c0cde47e77520956ae0a418ee80c7e7f3246df88f94d2d5d 54859083d0b4d572 82be9b4c9434bc39c8a995b43e3d6dcd87869d240930a515bdeada6d0c1f09f1 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | |__| |___ __| |__ | '_ \ / _ \/ _| / / |_.__/_\___/\__|_\_\ ___ __ __ __ ___ ___ / _ \/ / / \ / /| __| __| \_, / _ \ () / _ \__ \__ \ /_/\___/\__/\___/___/___/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 eefa e22e 1e75 1f | | 2. a3bd 5c3f 629e 81e9 2f | | 3. 358c 667f 11cd 6.1d 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 6.1d 2c76 a4