# on receiving block 964104 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-08-26T06:50:42Z # as written in the block header 2026-08-26T06:52:04Z $ uptime # since last reboot 06:50:42 up 6 days, 21:06, 0 users, load average: 1.40, 1.65, 2.13 $ battery.sh 97%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.44-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1802912 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.5G .bitcoin/indexes 5.0G .bitcoin/signet 87.9M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 126.1G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 435.3G 475.2G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v31.99.0-gdb73d162395789ca3a74d50a831f4ac30c0da4f4 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 964104 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 964104); echo $BH 000000000000000000013b191e7375cbdbceb2576954016832f8d02717fe6005 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 000000000000000000013b191e7375cbdbceb2576954016832f8d02717fe6005 { "hash": "000000000000000000013b191e7375cbdbceb2576954016832f8d02717fe6005", "confirmations": 1, "height": 964104, "version": 537780224, "versionHex": "200de000", "merkleroot": "49df6340b87fe913951e656c4dc541d828f0b74666d30d6bd86668867da7b4cc", "time": 1787727124, "mediantime": 1787724014, "nonce": 3833175700, "bits": "17023cc1", "target": "000000000000000000023cc10000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 125807076547197.5, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000014259da1e323a24a50a92d8ff", "nTx": 3723, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000000a8dd86ccf7ff2bc91bfea403358beaf52c9805c0dbc2" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 3b19 1e73 75cb dbce b257 6954 .168 32f8 d.27 17fe 6..5 $ : 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 964104 sf: ...1 .168 d.27 6..5 $ : 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 . 964104 sk: 6..5 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 . 964104 ak: c421 84 $ : Following is the jointkode 964104 jk: 6005 c421 84 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 84053, "bytes": 42213076, "usage": 237083368, "total_fee": 0.07744851, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 0, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 183 ## Current epoch estimation is +0.36% ## 456 of 2016, i.e. 22%, 1560 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.037228609497285e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 963647 9.004776521724085e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 961631 9.120027891947245e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 964104, "bestblock": "000000000000000000013b191e7375cbdbceb2576954016832f8d02717fe6005", "txouts": 165737327, "bogosize": 12981422107, "muhash": "08406f64d1bec74677d63d317c0efe718dbca3eec2d33db1bfb01bda1db0da6f", "total_amount": 20075098.00952588, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.11547412, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 11849.27172096, "coinbase": 3.16046477, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 11849.23625619, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 964104 { "avgfee": 952, "avgfeerate": 3, "avgtxsize": 424, "blockhash": "000000000000000000013b191e7375cbdbceb2576954016832f8d02717fe6005", "feerate_percentiles": [ 1, 2, 2, 3, 5 ], "height": 964104, "ins": 7943, "maxfee": 91650, "maxfeerate": 652, "maxtxsize": 38352, "medianfee": 448, "mediantime": 1787724014, "mediantxsize": 223, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 94, "outs": 10188, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1456341, "swtotal_weight": 3496554, "swtxs": 3404, "time": 1787727124, "total_out": 1184923625619, "total_size": 1580135, "total_weight": 3991730, "totalfee": 3546477, "txs": 3723, "utxo_increase": 2245, "utxo_size_inc": 164306, "utxo_increase_actual": 1324, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 94948 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 1984754687, "totalbytessent": 4562152695, "timemillis": 1787727042901, "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 v31.99.0-gdb73d162395789ca3a74d50a831f4ac30c0da4f4 - server 70017/Satoshi:31.99.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 19 2 21 out 10 0 10 2 total 29 2 31 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 77028, "ipv6": 319, "onion": 1877, "i2p": 6, "cjdns": 0, "total": 79230 } } $ halving.sh 964104 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=964104 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1787727124 This is average time to mine a block (1787727124-1231006505)/964104 bts=577.4481192401242603243422 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Wed Mar 22 08:46:47 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 964469 predicted to happen at this time: Fri Aug 28 17:24:52 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 478. The next fortnight happens in block 965664 and probably around this time: Sat Sep 5 17:05:43 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 14 "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 414787c4e387548d 9f9b4564eb3fb35959dcc6ee5604a493997c821a12ffacaa739928834a61395f d794b809c0290b7b 5bde7c71d663f011da173f15380b32b16ee11d61f32030ac154b0b096528833a 856ecac120da5045 387f333e519af90145a9b402e390209924356c499f219ad44838139e5cb6040b ba6d92d150836c0c 70989c2dffc89b643435aa3765e03d63658f4d5e0fd918de5136862048f54852 1c496eb0560fd00f f6422bab4279a5afc65711069c0ab8dcbec0cf81135e1b13aa0d9ad42fa925e3 130b5bcaaabb7ac3 da75f724c7d78fdc231bb77cd751f99d7cf488b96b24899573e148e201ba5e49 73f090725e004df4 33d8fd43eb3e611636defa879c17c7cd4a8831b38cc859342f99a1768f9f7b87 8c3d576bd3990c91 fe463cc7959f98cd1d6078334b9badfd6a518a5944d9469dea2c79ea011e0be7 3b5b5baf6d550106 eb4176664e44f0e3b46f225d3ca827deb59acf3d8b15f77b0990320d3f637bf1 19ed0c57cc4e37fe a9641e19d275ed293604ce90dbc84760a7b165aa473cbe21d32304019fc83983 bed223822fcdba25 a64078323e779404e2e2a04b3f1ef20ea6aeafb983e0013eab3d75317d373188 204b3ccbe5923f22 aa13fce20d85333328bc4b8b6ebaef334c028336d22a672672b7c9bf8657ee42 626323724eabb3f4 314ec6cf4fd91e9e54520e3aef80a6f91584f847987cfcca0c5234543bee1d2d 496f00cdf9f96af7 6f5007b2a54663b02f93d40839c7bd6ebd08eb9ab8851b5f6918b0e2b06fcc65 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ____ _____ __ __ / __ \/ ___// // / / /_/ / __ \/ // /_ \__, / /_/ /__ __/ /____/\____/ /_/ _______ __ __ < / __ \/ // / / / / / / // /_ / / /_/ /__ __/ /_/\____/ /_/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 3b19 1e73 75cb 1f | | 2. dbce b257 6954 .168 2f | | 3. 32f8 d.27 17fe 6..5 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 6..5 c421 84