# on receiving block 959304 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-07-23T20:07:18Z # as written in the block header 2026-07-23T20:06:59Z $ uptime # since last reboot 20:07:18 up 27 days, 12:38, 0 users, load average: 0.54, 0.92, 1.77 $ battery.sh 146%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1678300 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.4G .bitcoin/indexes 4.7G .bitcoin/signet 87.9M .bitcoin/wallets 97.8G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.7G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.9G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.7G 475.7G 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 959304 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 959304); echo $BH 00000000000000000001250af1a315ff84c8c1aa07711b9d550bee2dacb65cad $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000001250af1a315ff84c8c1aa07711b9d550bee2dacb65cad { "hash": "00000000000000000001250af1a315ff84c8c1aa07711b9d550bee2dacb65cad", "confirmations": 1, "height": 959304, "version": 719323136, "versionHex": "2ae00000", "merkleroot": "995519ec2842bf2e44abc3e26579d4d31d696b32095e806ac3ba2193063b3dcb", "time": 1784837219, "mediantime": 1784834691, "nonce": 2849669644, "bits": "1702369d", "target": "00000000000000000002369d0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 127170500429035.2, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000139e7e687a7ec62b54f7cc66a", "nTx": 4430, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000000f1a6c89922558eac99407c110eb45a955ca6b1bf6889" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 25.a f1a3 15ff 84c8 c1aa .771 1b9d 55.b ee2d acb6 5cad $ : 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 959304 sf: ...1 25.a .771 55.b M $ : 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 . 959304 sk: 5cad 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 . 959304 ak: d3e4 84 $ : Following is the jointkode 959304 jk: 5cad d3e4 84 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 86934, "bytes": 42704790, "usage": 238959320, "total_fee": 0.07654622, "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 179 ## Current epoch estimation is -2.12% ## 1704 of 2016, i.e. 84%, 312 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 8.908621627145603e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 957599 9.102434559868438e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 955583 9.577176399839705e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 959304, "bestblock": "00000000000000000001250af1a315ff84c8c1aa07711b9d550bee2dacb65cad", "txouts": 166206767, "bogosize": 13015202783, "muhash": "85617c5e400c0d50b8aec8ec4e22e6d48e5242550760ccfc74a3478da43c819d", "total_amount": 20060098.01064582, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.11435418, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 8882.79505335, "coinbase": 3.14666680, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 8882.77338655, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 959304 { "avgfee": 489, "avgfeerate": 2, "avgtxsize": 410, "blockhash": "00000000000000000001250af1a315ff84c8c1aa07711b9d550bee2dacb65cad", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 1, 2, 4 ], "height": 959304, "ins": 7773, "maxfee": 121818, "maxfeerate": 105, "maxtxsize": 332920, "medianfee": 67, "mediantime": 1784834691, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 94, "outs": 10083, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1702557, "swtotal_weight": 3536214, "swtxs": 3666, "time": 1784837219, "total_out": 888277338655, "total_size": 1817351, "total_weight": 3995390, "totalfee": 2166680, "txs": 4430, "utxo_increase": 2310, "utxo_size_inc": 164698, "utxo_increase_actual": -340, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -24974 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 4316749757, "totalbytessent": 11751709214, "timemillis": 1784837238720, "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 19 2 21 out 10 0 10 2 total 29 2 31 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 69703, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 69703 } } $ halving.sh 959304 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=959304 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1784837219 This is average time to mine a block (1784837219-1231006505)/959304 bts=577.3249529607372003690171 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Mon Mar 20 20:51:22 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 959959 predicted to happen at this time: Tue Jul 28 05:09:26 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 475. The next fortnight happens in block 959616 and probably around this time: Sat Jul 25 22:09:04 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 ccfcf89fb0868515 3786191912152443897020f22f25da6246f3ca5a637987f915574d80e151fbc7 f366e70d309a8c75 70bd5ea0f1cb036217c02b373c58726b7d8971e125296bc96c96f2bff3bb5aed e1bfd66b585cfcbe 64183e7251b5e91779faa4a14bdc62f9b6db1ac8c017f45eca822bed84a1c60e b9692f8f63b61794 8f760033844b66047aea97246bddc1e99241b17461ede262c136a71663f5a7b7 646ebacd2d74e318 157b237319d355910839fc2c6a1d2ef1bbd81662fdd616bae857ce6ca7ef72e6 a5f0879e0b7a1727 8f553ed183b2f8f55cd1e566eca04b0c7ffb4ec6d0eca03826b13d0dffa4f68e b6f261ab9f7e6850 2faab3602c7a58d2759e76de32bc7e8a87ab17688f79cd0b48420c826c265467 cd31e93a3553f57d 9e0cb07dad6c957376a1d7348ab0560ad448d35ef47da5b87082b64497bf4bf6 7941657556135fba 8fb830742422d65e59c1c04a1eaf9ad1da30c65e8d2210ba3dfe45ec62a3ef20 69b69af6dbedee1a 3517f79d15092b4a3b7741f7f8d0e2e63575ce235a57264517cb825d1bf1e4ae 44a1415a2757debe e56d9e674d88db7801bb5ffbb417792a06a9e78651f534982b801e18bc3d225e 8273a752ca0cf867 1855a85a4cda16cb3e4a8941099aa0d3b0fca62ce3a4b202f22059cdbc4a69dc $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | | | | | | | | | | __ __ | | |/ \_|/ / \_/ |/_) \_/ |__/\__/ \___/| \_/ __ ______ ___ __ / || / |/ \ / \ | | \_/||___\_/| __/| ||__|_ | \ | \| | | |\___/ |\___/ \__/ | ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 25.a f1a3 15ff 1f | | 2. 84c8 c1aa .771 1b9d 2f | | 3. 55.b ee2d acb6 5cad 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 5cad d3e4 84