# on receiving block 943499 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-04-03T12:37:23Z # as written in the block header 2026-04-03T12:37:04Z $ uptime # since last reboot 12:37:23 up 15 days, 3:30, 0 users, load average: 0.88, 0.99, 1.29 $ battery.sh 100%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 2101236 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.1G .bitcoin/indexes 4.3G .bitcoin/signet 2.7M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 124.8G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 433.1G 477.3G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v31.0rc2 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 943499 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 943499); echo $BH 0000000000000000000154d068e38e1df2d4cfcc6c704d6bd43223ca6829aea0 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 0000000000000000000154d068e38e1df2d4cfcc6c704d6bd43223ca6829aea0 { "hash": "0000000000000000000154d068e38e1df2d4cfcc6c704d6bd43223ca6829aea0", "confirmations": 1, "height": 943499, "version": 637534208, "versionHex": "26000000", "merkleroot": "7887d16c4d8a0c934ad85445b954dd43f5eb392266a7ba10e13925b88a614a47", "time": 1775219824, "mediantime": 1775214244, "nonce": 1266854451, "bits": "17020684", "target": "0000000000000000000206840000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 138966872071213.2, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000011c94d64256843d6f096349a0", "nTx": 4489, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000002063e236fffde7616c038315cf6279179b4acb0965f5e" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 54d. 68e3 8e1d f2d4 cfcc 6c7. 4d6b d432 23ca 6829 aea. $ : 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 943499 sf: ...1 54d. 6c7. aea. $ : 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 . 943499 sk: aea. 84 $ : 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 . 943499 ak: 9f5d 84 $ : Following is the jointkode 943499 jk: aea0 9f5d 84 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 25433, "bytes": 23374139, "usage": 125632784, "total_fee": 0.04025297, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 1, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 172 ## Current epoch estimation is -0.38% ## 11 of 2016, i.e. 0%, 2005 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.90458214276593e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 943487 9.942372658458654e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 941471 9.575843405435805e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 943499, "bestblock": "0000000000000000000154d068e38e1df2d4cfcc6c704d6bd43223ca6829aea0", "txouts": 165205061, "bogosize": 12944513031, "muhash": "dbb8569aed974d6eb6d3b834c424380b402696497d29970c6c25ad4cba5e6e3d", "total_amount": 20010707.40522920, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09477080, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 2583.08983013, "coinbase": 3.15345687, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 2583.06137326, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 943499 { "avgfee": 634, "avgfeerate": 2, "avgtxsize": 354, "blockhash": "0000000000000000000154d068e38e1df2d4cfcc6c704d6bd43223ca6829aea0", "feerate_percentiles": [ 1, 2, 2, 3, 4 ], "height": 943499, "ins": 7717, "maxfee": 59288, "maxfeerate": 77, "maxtxsize": 46813, "medianfee": 352, "mediantime": 1775214244, "mediantxsize": 223, "minfee": 91, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 10065, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1457557, "swtotal_weight": 3457891, "swtxs": 4263, "time": 1775219824, "total_out": 258306137326, "total_size": 1591006, "total_weight": 3991687, "totalfee": 2845687, "txs": 4489, "utxo_increase": 2348, "utxo_size_inc": 175215, "utxo_increase_actual": 2247, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 165237 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 2787998343, "totalbytessent": 5717123825, "timemillis": 1775219843830, "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 v31.0rc2 - server 70016/Satoshi:31.0.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 11 1 12 out 10 0 10 2 total 21 1 22 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 62161, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 62161 } } $ halving.sh 943499 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=943499 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1775219824 This is average time to mine a block (1775219824-1231006505)/943499 bts=576.8026698463169051404345 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Tue Mar 14 12:31:25 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 944449 predicted to happen at this time: Thu Apr 9 20:49:46 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 468. The next fortnight happens in block 945504 and probably around this time: Thu Apr 16 21:51:53 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 11 "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 9e428a26ea4cf73a f1adb7a2ae179027c7d0ec417191f5922b82856cf31f683e8bb85443c3c7294e cdff5a742eef141a 84793916eb3773cec2e104afbe78fe32aaf01b91977bd010a3250b024eee140c 93109da52ab42c55 b0d96ab486ddd61c1afe8ca5f9c90f40a1bac36c666e268a0b3e99da24de3145 aa553ee8cea85fe0 dc95a76ee26addfed640e64fc8fd12c9d792238dd7a6d94bedf4cfd7796354bb 28fedca04b7887ac b0cfc453555c6174441b04b48773edd9e454227cd9ce8e3e2f4a4513fbaebd75 4fa380194c83be15 dbaea37e427a38914c2eb75b33a1907adad156ae750a00b761a79b9562e042d0 fbc25ca58b448a3a feeff75b471a9327441a0156714b8f7d4b4fe9038a772448ccf88843331f985d 7b41f29724e760d6 4793347a490488bff5482d29af8f2ce370f6c6ea054e45eeffe97a56cd157fac 1957d89a90d1886f e60144424987c961b9e8d1e05ec7026400946a8bee433ea851811401ce2f8eab cfe855ce8ca537e1 46dc23905ab0e89d5ea5fe14f882eb96cb68c1f0e28f96d6f267be68729cb9a0 793aa6b16f184fe2 288f399824371fc9616fd44a0026b47aa68c3b423c5d1569d4d8c16b69bec790 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _|_| _| _| _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _| _|_|_| _|_|_|_| _|_| _| _| _| _|_|_| _| _|_|_| _| _| _|_| _|_| _| _| _| _| _| _| _|_|_|_| _|_|_| _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _|_|_| _|_|_| ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 54d. 68e3 8e1d 1f | | 2. f2d4 cfcc 6c7. 4d6b 2f | | 3. d432 23ca 6829 aea. 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: aea. 9f5d 84