# on receiving block 969138 here
$ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'
2026-09-29T09:57:35Z
# as written in the block header
2026-09-29T09:57:28Z
$ uptime # since last reboot
09:57:35 up 41 days, 13 min, 0 users, load average: 1.18, 1.05, 1.16
$ battery.sh
102%, Power Supply Online
$ uname -smnr
Linux singer 6.18.44-0-lts x86_64
$ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo
MemAvailable: 1622804 kB
$ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/
12.6G .bitcoin/indexes
5.1G .bitcoin/signet
88.0M .bitcoin/wallets
97.7G .bitcoin/blocks
18.6M .bitcoin/regtest
10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate
8.0K .bitcoin/fees
126.3G .bitcoin/
$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 911.4G 446.0G 464.5G 49% /
$ bitcoind -version
Bitcoin Core daemon version v32.0.0rc2 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
969138
$ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 969138); echo $BH
0000000000000000000163317efebd6afab1b1cfe4d2ad467cfaf25855329e63
$ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 0000000000000000000163317efebd6afab1b1cfe4d2ad467cfaf25855329e63
{
"hash": "0000000000000000000163317efebd6afab1b1cfe4d2ad467cfaf25855329e63",
"confirmations": 1,
"height": 969138,
"version": 592732160,
"versionHex": "23546000",
"merkleroot": "3e95789b457aee66883474fcdee66a32815243ff21c3297c5611fd3640df7d11",
"time": 1790675848,
"mediantime": 1790673682,
"nonce": 1961760646,
"bits": "17021ec5",
"target": "000000000000000000021ec50000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
"difficulty": 132757073449487.5,
"chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000014b53a9e283c01fe9bb294d52",
"nTx": 5575,
"previousblockhash": "0000000000000000000135c66c48764e2fb8aef234fdcc029302b10d90af0536"
}
$ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - -
.... .... .... ....
...1 6331 7efe bd6a
fab1 b1cf e4d2 ad46
7cfa f258 5532 9e63
$ : 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
969138 sf: ...1 9e63
$ : 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 .
969138 sk: 9e63 b4
$ : 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 .
969138 ak: e7bd b4
$ : Following is the jointkode
969138 jk: 9e63 e7bd b4
### niceblack moved to the end
$ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo
{
"loaded": true,
"size": 72786,
"bytes": 40355558,
"usage": 223776344,
"total_fee": 0.05903622,
"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
146
## Current epoch estimation is -0.4%
## 1458 of 2016, i.e. 72%, 558 to go
## Current and previous two in numbers:
$ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016
9.461812736210783e+20
$ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 967679
9.500046813447429e+20
$ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 965663
9.102936500339878e+20
$ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash
{
"height": 969138,
"bestblock": "0000000000000000000163317efebd6afab1b1cfe4d2ad467cfaf25855329e63",
"txouts": 165143243,
"bogosize": 12936317389,
"muhash": "e62ccd2b01930b9e04c2ef9ca96615b6e0ac172778e19a678ec703b4860ed32b",
"total_amount": 20090829.25186617,
"total_unspendable_amount": 230.12313383,
"block_info": {
"prevout_spent": 9058.05566603,
"coinbase": 3.14243663,
"new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 9058.03822940,
"unspendable": 0.00000000,
"unspendables": {
"genesis_block": 0.00000000,
"bip30": 0.00000000,
"scripts": 0.00000000,
"unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000
}
}
}
$ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 969138
{
"avgfee": 312,
"avgfeerate": 1,
"avgtxsize": 276,
"blockhash": "0000000000000000000163317efebd6afab1b1cfe4d2ad467cfaf25855329e63",
"feerate_percentiles": [
0,
0,
1,
2,
3
],
"height": 969138,
"ins": 7677,
"maxfee": 323087,
"maxfeerate": 3464,
"maxtxsize": 30928,
"medianfee": 42,
"mediantime": 1790673682,
"mediantxsize": 221,
"minfee": 10,
"minfeerate": 0,
"mintxsize": 66,
"outs": 11935,
"subsidy": 312500000,
"swtotal_size": 1397931,
"swtotal_weight": 3420822,
"swtxs": 4898,
"time": 1790675848,
"total_out": 905803822940,
"total_size": 1540710,
"total_weight": 3991938,
"totalfee": 1743663,
"txs": 5575,
"utxo_increase": 4258,
"utxo_size_inc": 303293,
"utxo_increase_actual": 570,
"utxo_size_inc_actual": 40902
}
$ bitcoin-cli getnettotals
{
"totalbytesrecv": 2763604195,
"totalbytessent": 6753435795,
"timemillis": 1790675855992,
"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 v32.0.0rc2 - server 70017/Satoshi:32.0.0/
ipv4 npr total block
in 27 2 29
out 10 0 10 2
total 37 2 39
Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2
Local addresses: n/a
$ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo
{
"addresses_known": {
"ipv4": 78923,
"ipv6": 304,
"onion": 1792,
"i2p": 6,
"cjdns": 0,
"total": 81025
}
}
$ halving.sh 969138
=====================================
Bitcoin Block Halving prediction
=====================================
bc=969138
gbt=1231006505
bbt=1790675848
This is average time to mine a block
(1790675848-1231006505)/969138
bts=577.4913020732836053445377
Now let's multiply that by 1050000
which is the block number of next
halving and get the prediction:
Wed Mar 22 21:22:29 UTC 2028
-------------------------------------
Next palindrome will be 969969
predicted to happen at this time:
Sun Oct 4 23:15:43 UTC 2026
-------------------------------------
Current mining epoch number is 480.
The next fortnight happens in block
969696 and probably around this time:
Sat Oct 3 03:28:08 UTC 2026
### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt
$ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c
15 "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
f0d668813b1ae5fc
56ad083f140f7a54d3da87c99eb22a12bf9e81daabf3816c040be54e8ebb9c36
d9b67c073b22513e
48935cba6153687b1e91354fba5e674e3ec7b06fdc60e90068927f1270514de5
d0f19c0740b06b46
c0aa4bf22e9c376f0b86bac55df2556005ee7f014f92d82583927e67ae31b00a
22f867ba147c372b
fcf00c4cc43a979ba54da04fd6e2354e9ddef75dec09af61b3113e2fa4127279
f5bb70896a636fcd
a21b50c51306ebd6082a524ce4eea988738b0d944af31ae915974052bee73205
bb284c76cb67caf5
1b79f53c5d29766092793db8254f9360f9ea05ceb2bc9dd9eb4ca837953aade4
f9c0505a17a75217
70ef2548d92ed820cd052240390ac134616f6bae053b2d6e377114b711fc85a7
02212ecf6df649e2
20e6dd74acb38fdfff0c63821ac9f7f2b0eb0dfd1a43c85fbf0b292fc0421340
a59a865ce399f25e
e40bf428e98184213d7283717ceea22477a8a95e0c1ec81a81672026a9f243f1
4c6529e2f29fb8a9
31ceb18ac9619b57f62b8b7de789192e861fad3f08d5009bcd9287dd2494582e
f10548d0f25b0faf
35cacf248de313f90f5bfa16b7a527630adacbe2d1c88fbdd8bbeec897a7a837
76abe4b2b127af74
cef04068e148682f858211794634d3941abd72d4bf0abe2302e94cebe79794db
b8ba77042d092702
e9713ffebcffa78a2563d50e35d44eba857414c60c373af492d295f7ec63c1a8
617bfbb900c67085
a0fd95b86536785eb9583b0eec2b7bdeaa67ed3303a90e85ad22a5f11d33f7be
6276e9b5f292c426
97e12503f8f2cd8c8c1ceed7d8abd07863083b815441402b7f3d26173670fc0b
$ niceblack.sh $BH $BC
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,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----,
| |
| .. .... .... .... .... .f |
| 1. ...1 6331 7efe bd6a 1f |
| 2. fab1 b1cf e4d2 ad46 2f |
| 3. 7cfa f258 5532 9e63 3f |
'=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==='
jk: 9e63 e7bd b4