# on receiving block 947108 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-04-29T05:34:33Z # as written in the block header 2026-04-29T05:34:19Z $ uptime # since last reboot 05:34:33 up 40 days, 20:27, 0 users, load average: 1.05, 1.40, 1.56 $ battery.sh 156%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1488008 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.2G .bitcoin/indexes 4.4G .bitcoin/signet 2.7M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.1G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.4G 476.0G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v31.0.0rc4 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 947108 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 947108); echo $BH 000000000000000000012eb10d0fba2717cc09fa6eef08318f11c8a6581e0086 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 000000000000000000012eb10d0fba2717cc09fa6eef08318f11c8a6581e0086 { "hash": "000000000000000000012eb10d0fba2717cc09fa6eef08318f11c8a6581e0086", "confirmations": 1, "height": 947108, "version": 569147392, "versionHex": "21ec8000", "merkleroot": "d5d3bab6c48b81fd71624c11532ba48d360bcfa142ed3a1f638adc54c180ee7b", "time": 1777440859, "mediantime": 1777438785, "nonce": 1752094032, "bits": "17021369", "target": "0000000000000000000213690000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 135594876535256.6, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000123776f197b4886f5971c553e", "nTx": 6221, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000001e45f37bc3fde6238d9eb0fcc5ec27f74af3fb216a674" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 2eb1 .d.f ba27 17cc .9fa 6eef .831 8f11 c8a6 581e ..86 $ : 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 947108 sf: ...1 .d.f .9fa .831 M $ : 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 . 947108 sk: ..86 74 $ : 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 . 947108 ak: fe5f 74 $ : Following is the jointkode 947108 jk: 0086 fe5f 74 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 50827, "bytes": 33355941, "usage": 173744040, "total_fee": 0.04838021, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 36, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 144 ## Current epoch estimation is -2.03% ## 1604 of 2016, i.e. 79%, 412 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.506320188904486e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 943487 9.942372658458654e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 947108, "bestblock": "000000000000000000012eb10d0fba2717cc09fa6eef08318f11c8a6581e0086", "txouts": 165475101, "bogosize": 12963109934, "muhash": "1eb3072cedde19260e30304d6325e5e0e8108ad0106913c194fc252d0856d11c", "total_amount": 20021985.52838462, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09661538, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 74.93333185, "coinbase": 3.12875617, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 74.92957568, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 947108 { "avgfee": 60, "avgfeerate": 0, "avgtxsize": 310, "blockhash": "000000000000000000012eb10d0fba2717cc09fa6eef08318f11c8a6581e0086", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ], "height": 947108, "ins": 6287, "maxfee": 26964, "maxfeerate": 7, "maxtxsize": 358983, "medianfee": 39, "mediantime": 1777438785, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 30, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 189, "outs": 12430, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1926150, "swtotal_weight": 3975330, "swtxs": 6201, "time": 1777440859, "total_out": 7492957568, "total_size": 1930217, "total_weight": 3991598, "totalfee": 375617, "txs": 6221, "utxo_increase": 6143, "utxo_size_inc": 418190, "utxo_increase_actual": 80, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 6607 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 6439874960, "totalbytessent": 14598899805, "timemillis": 1777440873340, "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 v31.0.0rc4 - server 70016/Satoshi:31.0.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 16 1 17 out 10 0 10 2 total 26 1 27 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 66800, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 66800 } } $ halving.sh 947108 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=947108 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1777440859 This is average time to mine a block (1777440859-1231006505)/947108 bts=576.9498061997087980369735 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 07:26:18 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 947749 predicted to happen at this time: Sun May 3 12:18:03 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 469. The next fortnight happens in block 947520 and probably around this time: Fri May 1 23:36:02 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 493faac3367fbbe9 cdbcb30da1e5cf7a2c80a9fb01513ec9040522ba447eb55dd1b26bfc7e8c84a3 9c2ea4125ab2ab9b 88b1d6fe5aa87e69afcbf3e4d77986ac08da875391be5e708bef7aa01a6dd247 e9e7e494596358a1 7474156dbf4de78a6d1b37ef73fdf707fb3e02513739d408e5352083b545d8b8 6c45e9be707772f3 af9828f25250e36cd627b6b2bffacdfe9f0d4627b800454aef520944e6bee57a b1b1befa1d3b2564 425b9eaf799c6c1a793f246c92ef0e53b2b5a2eb76ddccfb2a1303902414e9a6 4d206dbaa4a31f10 629173f93ec967fb8705e64c1d98efc837894953e575e42a893e4e2958828bd9 6998b3f5481468c5 f9b220abe524d7ac8d24a40be33126b77654fd234e286be3a034b691d1dd4d68 019228fdec44cfdf 285a1450974a07594b766c7ba7094327d6f0347d6167209c4577534573c6895e a483ad636ef029ea 88fb439cbbca0eef1cdacf934b2a2926a1287f1b9a389c0c5b5339966ea241a3 43a1133e4f1b8f62 e30bf44358dd9a18bfd43c7ecf3ccb68e63c08bb47186aa1640db4c98a95df84 929b9bc11edd929c 7c3cebfe854757df77fe03d17ded81620127266a4699ae9c5d755b1fce59f63a $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _|_| _| _| _|_|_|_|_| _| _| _| _| _| _|_|_| _|_|_|_| _| _| _| _| _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _|_| _|_| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _|_| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _|_| ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 2eb1 .d.f ba27 1f | | 2. 17cc .9fa 6eef .831 2f | | 3. 8f11 c8a6 581e ..86 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: ..86 fe5f 74