# on receiving block 964543 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-08-29T08:01:08Z # as written in the block header 2026-08-29T08:00:35Z $ uptime # since last reboot 08:01:08 up 9 days, 22:17, 0 users, load average: 1.14, 1.14, 1.16 $ battery.sh 99%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.44-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1850880 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.5G .bitcoin/indexes 4.9G .bitcoin/signet 87.9M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 126.1G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 435.3G 475.2G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v31.99.0-gdb73d162395789ca3a74d50a831f4ac30c0da4f4 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 964543 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 964543); echo $BH 0000000000000000000119ef90e63b24dd27710b76027be1496d6d4380bf5325 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 0000000000000000000119ef90e63b24dd27710b76027be1496d6d4380bf5325 { "hash": "0000000000000000000119ef90e63b24dd27710b76027be1496d6d4380bf5325", "confirmations": 1, "height": 964543, "version": 537526272, "versionHex": "200a0000", "merkleroot": "bbb803cc4264df64c81b7b1d5281891ae445fb26c5ae497fd0de6205170c2588", "time": 1787990435, "mediantime": 1787985214, "nonce": 487618182, "bits": "17023cc1", "target": "000000000000000000023cc10000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 125807076547197.5, "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000001431e11a56b174acf3686b2c0", "nTx": 4809, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000001b39f787a8986b87c7e6fb7ba54746ad15f4c17a3b5f6" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 19ef 9.e6 3b24 dd27 71.b 76.2 7be1 496d 6d43 8.bf 5325 $ : 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 964543 sf: ...1 9.e6 71.b 76.2 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 . 964543 sk: 5325 74 $ : 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 . 964543 ak: e457 74 $ : Following is the jointkode 964543 jk: 5325 e457 74 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 78173, "bytes": 43120939, "usage": 241642616, "total_fee": 0.07435329, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 0, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 172 ## Current epoch estimation is -0.07% ## 895 of 2016, i.e. 44%, 1121 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 8.997667126348522e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 963647 9.004776521724085e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 961631 9.120027891947245e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 964543, "bestblock": "0000000000000000000119ef90e63b24dd27710b76027be1496d6d4380bf5325", "txouts": 165784917, "bogosize": 12984814933, "muhash": "85bcaa2fb7ff7a5e0c784d2ac27bc3d2f4d4b9d431729285dc6a198588f4826e", "total_amount": 20076469.88407704, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.11592296, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 5281.39381068, "coinbase": 3.14281162, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 5281.37599905, "unspendable": 0.00000001, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000001, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 964543 { "avgfee": 370, "avgfeerate": 1, "avgtxsize": 357, "blockhash": "0000000000000000000119ef90e63b24dd27710b76027be1496d6d4380bf5325", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 1, 2, 3 ], "height": 964543, "ins": 7408, "maxfee": 203672, "maxfeerate": 147, "maxtxsize": 352616, "medianfee": 52, "mediantime": 1787985214, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 10, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 66, "outs": 10870, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1522560, "swtotal_weight": 3204861, "swtxs": 3572, "time": 1787990435, "total_out": 528137599906, "total_size": 1720243, "total_weight": 3995593, "totalfee": 1781162, "txs": 4809, "utxo_increase": 3462, "utxo_size_inc": 244319, "utxo_increase_actual": 245, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 16331 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 3777639401, "totalbytessent": 9176569032, "timemillis": 1787990468353, "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 v31.99.0-gdb73d162395789ca3a74d50a831f4ac30c0da4f4 - server 70017/Satoshi:31.99.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 25 2 27 out 10 0 10 2 total 35 2 37 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 77496, "ipv6": 317, "onion": 1868, "i2p": 6, "cjdns": 0, "total": 79687 } } $ halving.sh 964543 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=964543 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1787990435 This is average time to mine a block (1787990435-1231006505)/964543 bts=577.4582911717868754561741 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Wed Mar 22 11:44:48 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 965569 predicted to happen at this time: Sat Sep 5 04:35:07 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 478. The next fortnight happens in block 965664 and probably around this time: Sat Sep 5 19:49:25 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 14 "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 d794b809c0290b7b 5bde7c71d663f011da173f15380b32b16ee11d61f32030ac154b0b096528833a 856ecac120da5045 387f333e519af90145a9b402e390209924356c499f219ad44838139e5cb6040b ba6d92d150836c0c 70989c2dffc89b643435aa3765e03d63658f4d5e0fd918de5136862048f54852 1c496eb0560fd00f f6422bab4279a5afc65711069c0ab8dcbec0cf81135e1b13aa0d9ad42fa925e3 73f090725e004df4 33d8fd43eb3e611636defa879c17c7cd4a8831b38cc859342f99a1768f9f7b87 8c3d576bd3990c91 fe463cc7959f98cd1d6078334b9badfd6a518a5944d9469dea2c79ea011e0be7 204b3ccbe5923f22 aa13fce20d85333328bc4b8b6ebaef334c028336d22a672672b7c9bf8657ee42 626323724eabb3f4 314ec6cf4fd91e9e54520e3aef80a6f91584f847987cfcca0c5234543bee1d2d 15cad86fd857697b 1a1d19fb9d281e96de2a698d8d8d3fca02ea4c0ebb3a1ad98df2e584ae68d14c 3f5d21b063816822 281d88a83b6d021fed1fb5bc413e238caf3cef412ecc230807dc03f1e1c3e3f3 dbc00773d3794dcc 53d5b771bc525d62e3371ef1359ff7c9002e9d3b154e70ea2ae13dc4bb02db18 089d23fb3f2a550d aab242242e041122a33e01494b791ff450ceb344c19be0aefc7a2838a283dbe3 eaba2244ceba7e98 f1c4928cefde8c55277cd7d4cfe65da208dc90a52924d1b7c4ade52778856255 18100c3b66df2c02 b68f8086896a4d11411eb15f1fefa23e4124b8e466d596583e6dd07b728b1a30 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | |__| |___ __| |__ | '_ \ / _ \/ _| / / |_.__/_\___/\__|_\_\ ___ __ _ _ ___ _ _ ____ / _ \/ /| | || __| | |__ / \_, / _ \_ _|__ \_ _|_ \ /_/\___/ |_||___/ |_|___/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 19ef 9.e6 3b24 1f | | 2. dd27 71.b 76.2 7be1 2f | | 3. 496d 6d43 8.bf 5325 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 5325 e457 74