# on receiving block 942853 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-03-29T22:27:22Z # as written in the block header 2026-03-29T22:27:05Z $ uptime # since last reboot 22:27:22 up 10 days, 13:20, 0 users, load average: 0.66, 0.96, 1.35 $ battery.sh 100%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 2259488 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.1G .bitcoin/indexes 4.2G .bitcoin/signet 2.7M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 124.7G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 433.0G 477.4G 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 942853 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 942853); echo $BH 000000000000000000002ae63de4cced77a9f40528100ceabe31f347f16c2451 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 000000000000000000002ae63de4cced77a9f40528100ceabe31f347f16c2451 { "hash": "000000000000000000002ae63de4cced77a9f40528100ceabe31f347f16c2451", "confirmations": 1, "height": 942853, "version": 648167424, "versionHex": "26a24000", "merkleroot": "a0c218c6f2e46c9905ea9c51738c0070d467cd8aee1444b1e739bd0cdedf0cca", "time": 1774823225, "mediantime": 1774817092, "nonce": 2392466277, "bits": "17021a91", "target": "000000000000000000021a910000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 133793147307542.8, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000011b618ca06a846afc0d2f1748", "nTx": 4108, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000000a5c4792bec1adb78a40e4ae97435ac0353ebfbcfcf88" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... 2ae6 3de4 cced 77a9 f4.5 281. .cea be31 f347 f16c 2451 $ : 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 942853 sf: f4.5 281. .cea 2451 $ : 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 . 942853 sk: 2451 85 $ : 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 . 942853 ak: e4f2 85 $ : Following is the jointkode 942853 jk: 2451 e4f2 85 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 22744, "bytes": 7902235, "usage": 50322184, "total_fee": 0.00843491, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 12, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 106 ## Current epoch estimation is +3.73% ## 1381 of 2016, i.e. 68%, 635 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.933196930668999e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 941471 9.575843405435805e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 939455 1.037983005536264e+21 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 942853, "bestblock": "000000000000000000002ae63de4cced77a9f40528100ceabe31f347f16c2451", "txouts": 165151164, "bogosize": 12940862753, "muhash": "ed61bd6b1c8af775b5123ddfb90f7f6238b3a34eb93352800292aa46b17e2763", "total_amount": 20008688.65528186, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09471814, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 11263.48082486, "coinbase": 3.14284342, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 11263.46298144, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 942853 { "avgfee": 434, "avgfeerate": 1, "avgtxsize": 394, "blockhash": "000000000000000000002ae63de4cced77a9f40528100ceabe31f347f16c2451", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 1, 1, 2, 3 ], "height": 942853, "ins": 7954, "maxfee": 48577, "maxfeerate": 87, "maxtxsize": 42390, "medianfee": 176, "mediantime": 1774817092, "mediantxsize": 222, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 9622, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1482152, "swtotal_weight": 3442277, "swtxs": 3850, "time": 1774823225, "total_out": 1126346298144, "total_size": 1619538, "total_weight": 3991821, "totalfee": 1784342, "txs": 4108, "utxo_increase": 1668, "utxo_size_inc": 125215, "utxo_increase_actual": 658, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 49763 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 1199895836, "totalbytessent": 2171366931, "timemillis": 1774823243443, "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 15 1 16 out 10 0 10 2 total 25 1 26 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 63252, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 63252 } } $ halving.sh 942853 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=942853 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1774823225 This is average time to mine a block (1774823225-1231006505)/942853 bts=576.7772316816813631803015 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Tue Mar 14 05:06:15 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 943349 predicted to happen at this time: Thu Apr 2 05:55:06 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 467. The next fortnight happens in block 943488 and probably around this time: Fri Apr 3 04:11:18 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 9 "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 53cb09911245d260 50c22bb3c18ff9ccf388cc1dd721210fd780266fa55a7565f136069a70f52e26 9e428a26ea4cf73a f1adb7a2ae179027c7d0ec417191f5922b82856cf31f683e8bb85443c3c7294e 755348c5b5d928bb 67f957eb13dfeba3f5a311024963541e1b64455a0c330b6f33b10c314478bcd3 cdff5a742eef141a 84793916eb3773cec2e104afbe78fe32aaf01b91977bd010a3250b024eee140c 93109da52ab42c55 b0d96ab486ddd61c1afe8ca5f9c90f40a1bac36c666e268a0b3e99da24de3145 aa553ee8cea85fe0 dc95a76ee26addfed640e64fc8fd12c9d792238dd7a6d94bedf4cfd7796354bb f93f5ce6859a804e 8045ee797d8a8df5cc8d2982063eba965de9e58826bdc8edd5d3c2fe873d3772 124f2c81c2247725 796160099e8f803d9fd8f9b1bbd948d0aa60c6abcfbb0713941b30e158d8b388 28fedca04b7887ac b0cfc453555c6174441b04b48773edd9e454227cd9ce8e3e2f4a4513fbaebd75 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | |__| |___ __| |__ | '_ \ / _ \/ _| / / |_.__/_\___/\__|_\_\ ___ _ _ ___ ___ ___ ____ / _ \ | |_ | _ ) __|__ / \_, /_ _/ // _ \__ \|_ \ /_/ |_/___\___/___/___/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... 2ae6 3de4 cced 1f | | 2. 77a9 f4.5 281. .cea 2f | | 3. be31 f347 f16c 2451 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 2451 e4f2 85