# on receiving block 950169 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-05-20T02:01:41Z # as written in the block header 2026-05-20T02:01:11Z $ uptime # since last reboot 02:01:41 up 61 days, 16:54, 0 users, load average: 1.86, 1.84, 1.93 $ battery.sh 159%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1503884 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 125.3G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.6G 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 950169 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 950169); echo $BH 00000000000000000001ce87686bf49fe20d3dbdaa1d6c1fea92e1816d36c336 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000001ce87686bf49fe20d3dbdaa1d6c1fea92e1816d36c336 { "hash": "00000000000000000001ce87686bf49fe20d3dbdaa1d6c1fea92e1816d36c336", "confirmations": 1, "height": 950169, "version": 536887296, "versionHex": "20004000", "merkleroot": "cba0f9245cf4b568b88525be51e924c29626a282a6d569df1dce7c73efe446d2", "time": 1779242471, "mediantime": 1779239643, "nonce": 466994162, "bits": "17020f79", "target": "000000000000000000020f790000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 136607070854775.1, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000012925f1afe02b5ab94f03f6b6", "nTx": 5385, "previousblockhash": "0000000000000000000098631e96fdef0459e830134999bc292f7f52c5f3aae3" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 ce87 686b f49f e2.d 3dbd aa1d 6c1f ea92 e181 6d36 c336 $ : 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 950169 sf: ...1 e2.d c336 $ : 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 . 950169 sk: c336 a4 $ : 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 . 950169 ak: eed3 a4 $ : Following is the jointkode 950169 jk: c336 eed3 a4 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 78199, "bytes": 37111180, "usage": 207856144, "total_fee": 0.05791845, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 16, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 156 ## Current epoch estimation is +0.47% ## 633 of 2016, i.e. 31%, 1383 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.816982934717555e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 949535 9.770940180508523e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 947519 9.480332550563884e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 950169, "bestblock": "00000000000000000001ce87686bf49fe20d3dbdaa1d6c1fea92e1816d36c336", "txouts": 165226854, "bogosize": 12945888742, "muhash": "70862ab76ac5e0ba00c76bbadca5aa30a4944598f094ced06c275568bdbf69ae", "total_amount": 20031551.15270125, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09729875, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 7887.59748111, "coinbase": 3.13634514, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 7887.58613597, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 950169 { "avgfee": 210, "avgfeerate": 1, "avgtxsize": 330, "blockhash": "00000000000000000001ce87686bf49fe20d3dbdaa1d6c1fea92e1816d36c336", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 1, 2 ], "height": 950169, "ins": 7398, "maxfee": 100000, "maxfeerate": 858, "maxtxsize": 187716, "medianfee": 47, "mediantime": 1779239643, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 41, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 11453, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1752260, "swtotal_weight": 3886454, "swtxs": 5309, "time": 1779242471, "total_out": 788758613597, "total_size": 1778523, "total_weight": 3991506, "totalfee": 1134514, "txs": 5385, "utxo_increase": 4055, "utxo_size_inc": 290342, "utxo_increase_actual": -418, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -28289 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 6125061238, "totalbytessent": 13587108334, "timemillis": 1779242501620, "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 19 1 20 out 10 0 10 2 total 29 1 30 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 69767, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 69767 } } $ halving.sh 950169 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=950169 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1779242471 This is average time to mine a block (1779242471-1231006505)/950169 bts=576.9872401780733973920456 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 18:21:24 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 951159 predicted to happen at this time: Tue May 26 16:41:28 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 471. The next fortnight happens in block 951552 and probably around this time: Fri May 29 07:40:44 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 34ddbc60bb1942e1 4d9cd7beec41bf7d38f143aa7df095fabd6829cca950e4c90704cc4d8923d959 1b610f06c935029b eea8c67c733b2e5ccc41d4a49d4ca69aea0ab16e402fc2f6afd40823b3dd73a0 d582e95bdd3788ff 71bdeb9a723606132237ba5669801e2a4aec77530e0cd441e9489175d4dd903e 3b8136a5b4352438 5bb9913008ebd57d4ef635f33ea788262fb85ddd35d54acef8a36a30eb9b484f 0dd7498f9e57aafe 9d85358a70b2e0871b1b745f5de9af39209fbc6e17a2bc3f698019b4fa79996d 9b4c3531d93af896 4524967b749a8e92cf4a45b7f66cce73769df2fda641349a1874f8e58b42db76 d3b8cc8bc831e058 5a38b4be731e638f25339b8485b2edd481bbefacda9d20f29ab75d957fcfbbfb 003428f23a2eace5 704896119a6748977b61fb726c7a07ea6317364a4f05841b802bcd0f8d96fe46 9303d05ce6597de1 18ed82535b0523dd260506039de18ac2681b803f24ffad94530053f35867bdc9 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | | | | | | | | | | __ __ | | |/ \_|/ / \_/ |/_) \_/ |__/\__/ \___/| \_/ __ ____ __ , __ __ / || / \/| / / | \_/||___ | ||| __\_/| | \| |||/ \ | |\___/ \__/ | \__/ | ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 ce87 686b f49f 1f | | 2. e2.d 3dbd aa1d 6c1f 2f | | 3. ea92 e181 6d36 c336 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: c336 eed3 a4