# on receiving block 958926 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-07-20T19:33:36Z # as written in the block header 2026-07-20T19:33:24Z $ uptime # since last reboot 19:33:36 up 24 days, 12:05, 0 users, load average: 0.90, 0.88, 0.82 $ battery.sh 146%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1807028 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.4G .bitcoin/indexes 4.8G .bitcoin/signet 87.9M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.7G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.8G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.6G 475.8G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v31.1.0 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 958926 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 958926); echo $BH 0000000000000000000219da59eae4c86c64d4707b74fcb615fe52743157324b $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 0000000000000000000219da59eae4c86c64d4707b74fcb615fe52743157324b { "hash": "0000000000000000000219da59eae4c86c64d4707b74fcb615fe52743157324b", "confirmations": 1, "height": 958926, "version": 741498880, "versionHex": "2c326000", "merkleroot": "e261ada969fdb27fe56e457969d105b711bbbea00cec66929847e7e1aec946df", "time": 1784576004, "mediantime": 1784571294, "nonce": 4012912950, "bits": "1702369d", "target": "00000000000000000002369d0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 127170500429035.2, "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000001393d1e0b40eeb87302e53f86", "nTx": 4250, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000001b0bb37ac83c1022a01db2e7e6e7217c71569cdb1f861" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...2 19da 59ea e4c8 6c64 d47. 7b74 fcb6 15fe 5274 3157 324b $ : 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 958926 sf: ...2 d47. 324b $ : 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 . 958926 sk: 324b a4 $ : 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 . 958926 ak: dfba a4 $ : Following is the jointkode 958926 jk: 324b dfba a4 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 88784, "bytes": 43879107, "usage": 245138056, "total_fee": 0.09125538, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 0, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 207 ## Current epoch estimation is -0.67% ## 1326 of 2016, i.e. 65%, 690 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.040796216488933e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 957599 9.102434559868438e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 955583 9.577176399839705e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 958926, "bestblock": "0000000000000000000219da59eae4c86c64d4707b74fcb615fe52743157324b", "txouts": 166177102, "bogosize": 13012762313, "muhash": "c1c05519298ad8a135b8fe0f2a1b61e04050724ea0b7d27b0e50651c43b954c9", "total_amount": 20058916.76071374, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.11428626, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 4969.75939404, "coinbase": 3.16230427, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 4969.72208976, "unspendable": 0.00000001, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000001, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 958926 { "avgfee": 877, "avgfeerate": 3, "avgtxsize": 381, "blockhash": "0000000000000000000219da59eae4c86c64d4707b74fcb615fe52743157324b", "feerate_percentiles": [ 1, 2, 3, 3, 5 ], "height": 958926, "ins": 8045, "maxfee": 100000, "maxfeerate": 477, "maxtxsize": 36842, "medianfee": 432, "mediantime": 1784571294, "mediantxsize": 222, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 94, "outs": 11178, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1535620, "swtotal_weight": 3652132, "swtxs": 3931, "time": 1784576004, "total_out": 496972208977, "total_size": 1620568, "total_weight": 3991924, "totalfee": 3730427, "txs": 4250, "utxo_increase": 3133, "utxo_size_inc": 232317, "utxo_increase_actual": 2276, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 169121 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 3083878149, "totalbytessent": 8284057100, "timemillis": 1784576016943, "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 v31.1.0 - server 70016/Satoshi:31.1.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 18 2 20 out 10 0 10 2 total 28 2 30 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 69784, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 69784 } } $ halving.sh 958926 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=958926 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1784576004 This is average time to mine a block (1784576004-1231006505)/958926 bts=577.2801255987160649350784 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Mon Mar 20 07:46:54 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 959959 predicted to happen at this time: Mon Jul 27 17:12:14 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 475. The next fortnight happens in block 959616 and probably around this time: Sat Jul 25 10:12:07 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 12 "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 ebd3d034bf50288a 399b997f12ff7db55821e7ccdb9ab2cc1fb73a4e3426689d767d767a541ad247 10221f67b8521311 ec37446ea11a718a8a77c45d0bb6ea26fbfdda9fd923ed096f1e6ec0c4a23992 a483ad636ef029ea 842ff54b0569385ab52ff04dfc9a7376821062576132e60eaa3a132a9b38b87c 37fa54ad8dafa535 89b030693db1d306a8cd3230fdf8798e1079e6315cd78446206e896c9cb48ac8 1f0a30671e3240f4 66711b5d9126bc6738da458c8d0a1fff16842558f8c84d2d6312bbe76b127e52 d7f3e35ea9a1f4ca dac505aa60cbdf51d710312c842f17f9d2c34336fb2849854048c3905a09e76a 4658f430066ad292 798a1e71abc31b81fc50a54ca9f418ec3f354f75fcb359162abc7dd85262dfe9 8314ff327a161a95 2b5f43e26bbfd40f3587fb31eed17a34ca5da87caaec062732836fb16911d30d 6acde030992d86ab 42b2db8888e83e16afcf9660b88720f23788444ef2da7fc2f3c1a81410fb8e83 e80bc98e01a13c7c b5f61b0ffd9fe68e5aa52ba7e49d45773f6f6e2581fb491f02638868dd4acdaa d5dcb887342fac09 43a33732ef39997a353c6013602f3590478103b9a23edcebfe9936b9c4565edc 908b307472aca7ff 698c6a709dd830671e8c1c67582ac16964afe7ef423395c83e101a9d6d3b9c5d $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | | | | | | | | | | __ __ | | |/ \_|/ / \_/ |/_) \_/ |__/\__/ \___/| \_/ __ ____ __ __ __ __ / || / \/ |/ )/ \_/||___ \__/\_/| /| __ | \/ \ | / |/ \ |\___/\__/ |/___\__/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...2 19da 59ea e4c8 1f | | 2. 6c64 d47. 7b74 fcb6 2f | | 3. 15fe 5274 3157 324b 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 324b dfba a4