# on receiving block 948976 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-05-11T17:44:08Z # as written in the block header 2026-05-11T17:43:51Z $ uptime # since last reboot 17:44:08 up 53 days, 8:37, 0 users, load average: 1.46, 1.99, 2.32 $ battery.sh 156%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1708784 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.2G .bitcoin/indexes 4.5G .bitcoin/signet 2.6M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.2G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.5G 475.9G 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 948976 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 948976); echo $BH 00000000000000000001d68a71639d89aa9b4ba8c13c2b0a4a06b5ba5587a520 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000001d68a71639d89aa9b4ba8c13c2b0a4a06b5ba5587a520 { "hash": "00000000000000000001d68a71639d89aa9b4ba8c13c2b0a4a06b5ba5587a520", "confirmations": 1, "height": 948976, "version": 536879104, "versionHex": "20002000", "merkleroot": "2477dabc9432aa7bc831eb3cd2fd8cfcbd13785cde3935414ece0c51637a6d1c", "time": 1778521431, "mediantime": 1778519615, "nonce": 3013413945, "bits": "17021ff0", "target": "000000000000000000021ff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 132472011079030.5, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000126eb275e40c092a80c06d323", "nTx": 5993, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000000e45851aab0a8e9deb13477d73e6af20b2798c4a2bf3" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 d68a 7163 9d89 aa9b 4ba8 c13c 2b.a 4a.6 b5ba 5587 a52. $ : 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 948976 sf: ...1 2b.a 4a.6 a52. $ : 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 . 948976 sk: a52. 84 $ : 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 . 948976 ak: 3e7f 84 $ : Following is the jointkode 948976 jk: a520 3e7f 84 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 89281, "bytes": 38519535, "usage": 219220728, "total_fee": 0.05896205, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 7, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 153 ## Current epoch estimation is +3.69% ## 1456 of 2016, i.e. 72%, 560 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.830521213545365e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 947519 9.480332550563884e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 948976, "bestblock": "00000000000000000001d68a71639d89aa9b4ba8c13c2b0a4a06b5ba5587a520", "txouts": 165148778, "bogosize": 12939289453, "muhash": "379b563297f4733a3826f15ac0c6c68e849d6dda9cab39e1e1652752ab6986f0", "total_amount": 20027823.02807946, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09692054, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 1887.40634619, "coinbase": 3.13490588, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 1887.39644031, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 948976 { "avgfee": 165, "avgfeerate": 0, "avgtxsize": 265, "blockhash": "00000000000000000001d68a71639d89aa9b4ba8c13c2b0a4a06b5ba5587a520", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 1, 2 ], "height": 948976, "ins": 7400, "maxfee": 42076, "maxfeerate": 41, "maxtxsize": 62675, "medianfee": 47, "mediantime": 1778519615, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 13075, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1560888, "swtotal_weight": 3870525, "swtxs": 5893, "time": 1778521431, "total_out": 188739644031, "total_size": 1591228, "total_weight": 3991885, "totalfee": 990588, "txs": 5993, "utxo_increase": 5675, "utxo_size_inc": 408881, "utxo_increase_actual": 846, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 64052 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 3268319150, "totalbytessent": 7412009013, "timemillis": 1778521448545, "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 17 1 18 out 10 0 10 2 total 27 1 28 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 66734, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 66734 } } $ halving.sh 948976 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=948976 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1778521431 This is average time to mine a block (1778521431-1231006505)/948976 bts=576.9527881076148315501850 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 08:18:29 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 949949 predicted to happen at this time: Mon May 18 05:40:06 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 470. The next fortnight happens in block 949536 and probably around this time: Fri May 15 11:28:44 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 b904c55d58f527b2 53cd9d85cf6dd1012a5e152647e61463c35eba07965434002f56cf53efd5e524 5aed91b1829fc962 d534201e0003f1a2fd4b8dd1b949939b0bdd491ba20105264ec824f68c6fcfb1 94c759ee18e36676 dc83829c6c57f138f8aba178707d9289f07630183b964387a52e00cec81c6174 1d0b6c41ad2da45e 112ebc501200d84198df83b79c4d3cbe2de4e2f13e871f301bcc4f49caf1ab36 e8a344a22779db58 a95fd64799e7b960572b6c0f810e27f1b769c37d02899c8ab20b5286cbc6f7f8 2abdf30cb3257f1c e457b07a3bd4f36f8afd2ad7c44925b047cfadedc0009898a47930d695dc24ee 379fcbc5f1424b20 30f2b5c6a57c1656cc1929ff349c9eced76d4e88b99ee55a53e2d902e2f56243 84fac107171db336 6fde277633d3ad8c35af39d478fe4c3d86ffd772cc7d3d6efca5471e3d6ffd8e 6bad8a5e5fb75c47 c29299d235a02b6dc407cb5d2ddc52c080fb6a3a3e84567051618857e7eb3c88 0b09763ddfe94fbc e45bfc4002a2458d6c399f7a3bf8cc4b9a29221bc8213ed9bc97356ddc396209 429567ebd486d5d7 26549684c7b7b7ee1675097e78d43cd7372488a32676d4741983f828358e20c9 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC __ __ __ / / / /__ ____/ /__ / _ \/ / _ \/ __/ '_/ /_.__/_/\___/\__/_/\_\ ___ ____ ___ ___ ________ / _ \/ / /( _ ) _ \/_ / __/ \_, /_ _/ _ \_, / / / _ \ /___/ /_/ \___/___/ /_/\___/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 d68a 7163 9d89 1f | | 2. aa9b 4ba8 c13c 2b.a 2f | | 3. 4a.6 b5ba 5587 a52. 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: a52. 3e7f 84