# on receiving block 946208 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-04-22T15:35:55Z # as written in the block header 2026-04-22T15:35:39Z $ uptime # since last reboot 15:35:55 up 34 days, 6:28, 0 users, load average: 1.25, 2.05, 2.69 $ battery.sh 151%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1834224 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.2G .bitcoin/indexes 4.3G .bitcoin/signet 2.7M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.0G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.4G 476.1G 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 946208 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 946208); echo $BH 0000000000000000000016f86eec87624f0c1cce0e53c687a2554c8eab7a233f $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 0000000000000000000016f86eec87624f0c1cce0e53c687a2554c8eab7a233f { "hash": "0000000000000000000016f86eec87624f0c1cce0e53c687a2554c8eab7a233f", "confirmations": 1, "height": 946208, "version": 536952832, "versionHex": "20014000", "merkleroot": "6f19247c2b1c4f354335aa8b28657f6c17e5cd31261b609250bc21e7f56ce9f5", "time": 1776872139, "mediantime": 1776869223, "nonce": 1238719191, "bits": "17021369", "target": "0000000000000000000213690000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 135594876535256.6, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000121c5deddc6ba54f9b0558aa6", "nTx": 3381, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000013632dd6021b7c4550081fa5154aa4acc10d5071640ca" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... 16f8 6eec 8762 4f.c 1cce .e53 c687 a255 4c8e ab7a 233f $ : 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 946208 sf: 4f.c .e53 233f $ : 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 . 946208 sk: 233f 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 . 946208 ak: .2fe 95 $ : Following is the jointkode 946208 jk: 233f .2fe 95 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 63223, "bytes": 37805130, "usage": 204990272, "total_fee": 0.06889355, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 3, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 182 ## Current epoch estimation is +1.02% ## 704 of 2016, i.e. 34%, 1312 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.803184618803094e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 943487 9.942372658458654e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 946208, "bestblock": "0000000000000000000016f86eec87624f0c1cce0e53c687a2554c8eab7a233f", "txouts": 165412694, "bogosize": 12958529450, "muhash": "e4affd0b3de2975b8facbdfe4c1ae36c956a3288c5fd7c331cb54616c5b14a50", "total_amount": 20019173.02852190, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09647810, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 21397.47884738, "coinbase": 3.17854559, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 21397.42530179, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 946208 { "avgfee": 1584, "avgfeerate": 5, "avgtxsize": 496, "blockhash": "0000000000000000000016f86eec87624f0c1cce0e53c687a2554c8eab7a233f", "feerate_percentiles": [ 3, 3, 3, 4, 7 ], "height": 946208, "ins": 8072, "maxfee": 254694, "maxfeerate": 713, "maxtxsize": 185365, "medianfee": 677, "mediantime": 1776869223, "mediantxsize": 224, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 10300, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1576004, "swtotal_weight": 3583280, "swtxs": 3085, "time": 1776872139, "total_out": 2139742530179, "total_size": 1678085, "total_weight": 3991604, "totalfee": 5354559, "txs": 3381, "utxo_increase": 2228, "utxo_size_inc": 163899, "utxo_increase_actual": 2084, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 149109 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 4275846895, "totalbytessent": 9859311942, "timemillis": 1776872155555, "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 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": 66778, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 66778 } } $ halving.sh 946208 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=946208 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1776872139 This is average time to mine a block (1776872139-1231006505)/946208 bts=576.8975289814406753687610 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Wed Mar 15 16:11:27 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 946649 predicted to happen at this time: Sat Apr 25 14:15:50 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 469. The next fortnight happens in block 947520 and probably around this time: Fri May 1 09:50:28 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 bb56e04d8e607aea 24b18d7fb15b198ecd6ba30fd897bf0f8deaf5aee462543841d757ae9ffb6564 e9ac3bea495c4566 5b94cd7859d115b75a8b650c6f215b37ec5fb01eac56362a4e933b555d763bb6 a500a73d6e035233 351ee3c1263701664117b4845203a28ec3d932c3e8a4db94205d89504f7d7206 0ee993a62fa6c7a3 8baadc50895ecfd9ca62571c0f56c9c308bf36b62b9d8e237774fadfd1cd3a69 5c972ee094c085f5 f60845eed2838874f25e8da9ff71b472f8a5b5f1b786ee5b9cd9043ea2f65c0a 76869486df31dabd 091bfde828610dd37aeb4a9b237655d0287c7ec1c9663e2c926312e249b6301b 4b248962e0f47094 6a20d9b64f467ac32704efe83eab4e0eee3ada71f7b25aea141c27be32ee49f4 0dade7379bf068ff 4d486ab143928c036c873699c727a64962037deaa28549d33f3747c2ee5d0f05 85aa55dbebf351e6 597fe44c50e8cfa42c88b04d97263ff5832ce7a2a14e0bbe20a0f0b924492a95 c1d44979daab4109 1df4de4eacc765863793393202ff28fffffebe2bf35253bacf8be676a96cb444 2109b1fbb94165b6 7d578c49152302fc3d40307e6638c71cdb0cfb5bfba64854e0567f0ed817802c $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _|_| _| _| _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _| _|_|_| _|_|_|_| _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _|_|_| _| _|_| _|_| _| _|_| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _|_| _| _| _| _| _| _|_|_|_| _| _|_| ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... 16f8 6eec 8762 1f | | 2. 4f.c 1cce .e53 c687 2f | | 3. a255 4c8e ab7a 233f 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 233f .2fe 95