# on receiving block 950449 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-05-22T03:01:08Z # as written in the block header 2026-05-22T03:00:50Z $ uptime # since last reboot 03:01:08 up 63 days, 17:54, 0 users, load average: 2.05, 2.53, 2.10 $ battery.sh 154%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1487216 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 950449 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 950449); echo $BH 00000000000000000000a28c4afe50c41a27fb499d4bdd9d668ec5f8452f6c6e $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000000a28c4afe50c41a27fb499d4bdd9d668ec5f8452f6c6e { "hash": "00000000000000000000a28c4afe50c41a27fb499d4bdd9d668ec5f8452f6c6e", "confirmations": 1, "height": 950449, "version": 616456192, "versionHex": "24be6000", "merkleroot": "4f71ef00255d32a12b8836299882d377152da119e4994e55ad0232eae3705bdd", "time": 1779418850, "mediantime": 1779416436, "nonce": 2422056820, "bits": "17020f79", "target": "000000000000000000020f790000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 136607070854775.1, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000129add65f31d7fe9f55f34f5e", "nTx": 2839, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000017a18683060de84cb1935826a6f57e3a7d38d695cf9f2" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... a28c 4afe 5.c4 1a27 fb49 9d4b dd9d 668e c5f8 452f 6c6e $ : 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 950449 sf: 5.c4 6c6e $ : 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 . 950449 sk: 6c6e a5 $ : 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 . 950449 ak: 9339 a5 $ : Following is the jointkode 950449 jk: 6c6e 9339 a5 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 106459, "bytes": 42040190, "usage": 244098408, "total_fee": 0.07368962, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 1, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 175 ## Current epoch estimation is -0.06% ## 913 of 2016, i.e. 45%, 1103 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.764619771384246e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 949535 9.770940180508523e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 947519 9.480332550563884e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 950449, "bestblock": "00000000000000000000a28c4afe50c41a27fb499d4bdd9d668ec5f8452f6c6e", "txouts": 165241384, "bogosize": 12946653923, "muhash": "55176c4232afa320bbda35fa8e4376a5be9b66811efb4097f89a1ad7ea84f5f0", "total_amount": 20032426.15264501, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09735499, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 2885.74866063, "coinbase": 3.14859022, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 2885.72507041, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 950449 { "avgfee": 831, "avgfeerate": 2, "avgtxsize": 516, "blockhash": "00000000000000000000a28c4afe50c41a27fb499d4bdd9d668ec5f8452f6c6e", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 1, 1, 3, 5 ], "height": 950449, "ins": 6660, "maxfee": 253640, "maxfeerate": 100, "maxtxsize": 75035, "medianfee": 214, "mediantime": 1779416436, "mediantxsize": 222, "minfee": 30, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 12948, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1159349, "swtotal_weight": 2766779, "swtxs": 2704, "time": 1779418850, "total_out": 288572507041, "total_size": 1465628, "total_weight": 3991895, "totalfee": 2359022, "txs": 2839, "utxo_increase": 6288, "utxo_size_inc": 461406, "utxo_increase_actual": 4863, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 358134 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 6851998844, "totalbytessent": 15366343358, "timemillis": 1779418868525, "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": 69939, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 69939 } } $ halving.sh 950449 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=950449 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1779418850 This is average time to mine a block (1779418850-1231006505)/950449 bts=577.0028354989741701299384 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 22:54:19 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 951159 predicted to happen at this time: Tue May 26 20:48:42 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 471. The next fortnight happens in block 951552 and probably around this time: Fri May 29 11:48:04 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 dc0af7c1feba1e24 8522f0dda790f03a50d3f812345e0ebdbf38143bd78a1b2051829fe8f599eaad $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | |__| |___ __| |__ | '_ \ / _ \/ _| / / |_.__/_\___/\__|_\_\ ___ ___ __ _ _ _ _ ___ / _ \ __|/ \| | || | |/ _ \ \_, /__ \ () |_ _|_ _\_, / /_/|___/\__/ |_| |_| /_/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... a28c 4afe 5.c4 1f | | 2. 1a27 fb49 9d4b dd9d 2f | | 3. 668e c5f8 452f 6c6e 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 6c6e 9339 a5