# on receiving block 946729 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-04-26T11:52:16Z # as written in the block header 2026-04-26T11:52:04Z $ uptime # since last reboot 11:52:16 up 38 days, 2:45, 0 users, load average: 3.48, 3.29, 2.35 $ battery.sh 150%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1706804 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.2G .bitcoin/indexes 4.4G .bitcoin/signet 2.7M .bitcoin/wallets 97.8G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.1G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.5G 476.0G 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 946729 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 946729); echo $BH 00000000000000000000401700a661387c4997006e51803ae982077e2a3e0ed5 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000000401700a661387c4997006e51803ae982077e2a3e0ed5 { "hash": "00000000000000000000401700a661387c4997006e51803ae982077e2a3e0ed5", "confirmations": 1, "height": 946729, "version": 718938112, "versionHex": "2ada2000", "merkleroot": "3738eae3bcf08421bd62c8e275c9485b015f86b90e5d5203ae6d102562f49f53", "time": 1777204324, "mediantime": 1777201913, "nonce": 2049683406, "bits": "17021369", "target": "0000000000000000000213690000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 135594876535256.6, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000122c0db0970f4c0fc6fab9b3c", "nTx": 6485, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000000246086abb16e3dfaeff5c506473b38fa345c13c7e9e4" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... 4.17 ..a6 6138 7c49 97.. 6e51 8.3a e982 .77e 2a3e .ed5 $ : 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 946729 sf: 4.17 ..a6 97.. 8.3a 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 . 946729 sk: .ed5 55 $ : 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 . 946729 ak: eebc 55 $ : Following is the jointkode 946729 jk: 0ed5 eebc 55 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 59231, "bytes": 32277945, "usage": 172853728, "total_fee": 0.04193749, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 4, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 129 ## Current epoch estimation is -0.14% ## 1225 of 2016, i.e. 60%, 791 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.690480028728602e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 943487 9.942372658458654e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 946729, "bestblock": "00000000000000000000401700a661387c4997006e51803ae982077e2a3e0ed5", "txouts": 165402742, "bogosize": 12957593158, "muhash": "38f9aaf0d9123805cebcb4f45e7e796afc51133edeb806802806b53659301d7c", "total_amount": 20020801.15344954, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09655046, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 1495.03790588, "coinbase": 3.13191275, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 1495.03099313, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 946729 { "avgfee": 106, "avgfeerate": 0, "avgtxsize": 244, "blockhash": "00000000000000000000401700a661387c4997006e51803ae982077e2a3e0ed5", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 ], "height": 946729, "ins": 7438, "maxfee": 36530, "maxfeerate": 30, "maxtxsize": 30521, "medianfee": 25, "mediantime": 1777201913, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 19, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 13298, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1530604, "swtotal_weight": 3769408, "swtxs": 6424, "time": 1777204324, "total_out": 149503099313, "total_size": 1586208, "total_weight": 3991824, "totalfee": 691275, "txs": 6485, "utxo_increase": 5860, "utxo_size_inc": 399284, "utxo_increase_actual": 238, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 18084 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 5504734789, "totalbytessent": 12619669533, "timemillis": 1777204336910, "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": 66550, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 66550 } } $ halving.sh 946729 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=946729 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1777204324 This is average time to mine a block (1777204324-1231006505)/946729 bts=576.9309296209056436365172 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 01:55:58 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 947749 predicted to happen at this time: Sun May 3 07:19:53 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 469. The next fortnight happens in block 947520 and probably around this time: Fri May 1 18:37:56 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 9 "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 696e648199e8708a 90614791a9d0044285c81f2471cd6321c42db6f9b1d79b21790393c226a6a892 3fe956c76c07f6d7 ebafc850d5580aee06ab9bd6fb0703c9000cff7825ccdfde9e39e5d96ddf7fcb 12767e02f1f87c22 1f205225725ec12e94956bc0583a15f97f3c2b2b51f0c20efb5522c9a9100b63 6ba96c7b88e6725a 38e72a89e5a767b48b95aa939d5c1c7fbb70ec6645f2e48d2b0e9e41266e68af 1aa6113a5e84f800 feb205aa925df10a06f95c40c5993d5bfd77944729558835a8f9e58a1c348e22 dfedb6e389535cfe a320d20f467a1fc432eb18f62d5b2f00c1d5a687f208dfcdd8555b84af6778e4 084064c7606aac23 a3d17535cc3d5e2a4bb26f8ff618e8287b94c47692f46a6494aa008380cd759f 9e300388da6eadc6 75f03d95b8f24cd077ae7f9e94e2d0a9a527d2e038c79ebfb54758f8369d660b 90a2b14392eeb0d8 472fba9aa776b91213da5040afd4503fac32b61a5de063a47bde1619c92751d6 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ___ _ _ __ / _ \| || | / / | (_) | || |_ / /_ \__, |__ _| '_ \ / / | | | (_) | /_/ |_| \___/ ______ ___ ___ |____ |__ \ / _ \ / / ) | (_) | / / / / \__, | / / / /_ / / /_/ |____| /_/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... 4.17 ..a6 6138 1f | | 2. 7c49 97.. 6e51 8.3a 2f | | 3. e982 .77e 2a3e .ed5 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: .ed5 eebc 55