# on receiving block 950284 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-05-20T20:42:05Z # as written in the block header 2026-05-20T20:41:39Z $ uptime # since last reboot 20:42:05 up 62 days, 11:34, 0 users, load average: 2.23, 2.09, 1.91 $ battery.sh 156%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1390492 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.3G .bitcoin/indexes 4.5G .bitcoin/signet 2.6M .bitcoin/wallets 97.8G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.3G .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 v31.0.0rc4 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 950284 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 950284); echo $BH 0000000000000000000001b3781d321ff4a228d52e1d73fc330633a9de1ac23a $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 0000000000000000000001b3781d321ff4a228d52e1d73fc330633a9de1ac23a { "hash": "0000000000000000000001b3781d321ff4a228d52e1d73fc330633a9de1ac23a", "confirmations": 1, "height": 950284, "version": 611966976, "versionHex": "2479e000", "merkleroot": "d35f378cb354dcd0a5e4baac1b984b12ca3a5866dca7175a08b008c6f190ef30", "time": 1779309699, "mediantime": 1779307544, "nonce": 3165365350, "bits": "17020f79", "target": "000000000000000000020f790000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 136607070854775.1, "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000001295dc1e59892429c5b01b1fb", "nTx": 5272, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000001212d2ee91b6fe5e2e073fccfe30e528d0e9d654e4e83" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... .1b3 781d 321f f4a2 28d5 2e1d 73fc 33.6 33a9 de1a c23a $ : 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 950284 sf: .1b3 33.6 c23a $ : 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 . 950284 sk: c23a 95 $ : 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 . 950284 ak: d6a8 95 $ : Following is the jointkode 950284 jk: c23a d6a8 95 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 101154, "bytes": 40506329, "usage": 234014944, "total_fee": 0.06613620, "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 163 ## Current epoch estimation is +0.6% ## 748 of 2016, i.e. 37%, 1268 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.829952535436398e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 949535 9.770940180508523e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 947519 9.480332550563884e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 950284, "bestblock": "0000000000000000000001b3781d321ff4a228d52e1d73fc330633a9de1ac23a", "txouts": 165224735, "bogosize": 12945672304, "muhash": "9ed1a7adb3133e05d814f8e1d09580e11b3c008877cbb7641b7315529ab50c23", "total_amount": 20031910.52765816, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09734184, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 4192.81868356, "coinbase": 3.14150055, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 4192.80218301, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 950284 { "avgfee": 313, "avgfeerate": 1, "avgtxsize": 296, "blockhash": "0000000000000000000001b3781d321ff4a228d52e1d73fc330633a9de1ac23a", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 1, 2, 2 ], "height": 950284, "ins": 7307, "maxfee": 144842, "maxfeerate": 120, "maxtxsize": 31706, "medianfee": 51, "mediantime": 1779307544, "mediantxsize": 222, "minfee": 23, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 11837, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1454006, "swtotal_weight": 3554345, "swtxs": 5137, "time": 1779309699, "total_out": 419280218301, "total_size": 1563404, "total_weight": 3991937, "totalfee": 1650055, "txs": 5272, "utxo_increase": 4530, "utxo_size_inc": 327233, "utxo_increase_actual": 879, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 65421 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 6421145171, "totalbytessent": 14328427081, "timemillis": 1779309725367, "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 18 1 19 out 10 0 10 2 total 28 1 29 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 69807, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 69807 } } $ halving.sh 950284 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=950284 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1779309699 This is average time to mine a block (1779309699-1231006505)/950284 bts=576.9881603939870670377834 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 18:37:30 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 951159 predicted to happen at this time: Tue May 26 16:56:03 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 471. The next fortnight happens in block 951552 and probably around this time: Fri May 29 07:55:19 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 10 "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 84608400b0618562 7af1f5e36df042df722c4e6516461e5e0547d35e006641145b12d3f789d981f4 1b610f06c935029b eea8c67c733b2e5ccc41d4a49d4ca69aea0ab16e402fc2f6afd40823b3dd73a0 d582e95bdd3788ff 71bdeb9a723606132237ba5669801e2a4aec77530e0cd441e9489175d4dd903e 3b8136a5b4352438 5bb9913008ebd57d4ef635f33ea788262fb85ddd35d54acef8a36a30eb9b484f 0dd7498f9e57aafe 9d85358a70b2e0871b1b745f5de9af39209fbc6e17a2bc3f698019b4fa79996d 9b4c3531d93af896 4524967b749a8e92cf4a45b7f66cce73769df2fda641349a1874f8e58b42db76 d3b8cc8bc831e058 5a38b4be731e638f25339b8485b2edd481bbefacda9d20f29ab75d957fcfbbfb 003428f23a2eace5 704896119a6748977b61fb726c7a07ea6317364a4f05841b802bcd0f8d96fe46 cdfb5803a9f3ed96 8f723a3ff97b8989969fe46cbb4b40c6337d5c55e2fc55d52866e93b25743d40 ab99de77d35d11c4 1fa1d4f399003bf8e11655ee13b2c32ba462cdadf6f82eee637c904d5b92110d $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ___ _____ ___ / _ \| ____|/ _ \ | (_) | |__ | | | | \__, |___ \| | | | / / ___) | |_| | /_/ |____/ \___/ ___ ___ _ _ |__ \ / _ \| || | ) | (_) | || |_ / / > _ <|__ _| / /_| (_) | | | |____|\___/ |_| ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... .1b3 781d 321f 1f | | 2. f4a2 28d5 2e1d 73fc 2f | | 3. 33.6 33a9 de1a c23a 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: c23a d6a8 95