# on receiving block 946237 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-04-22T21:51:50Z # as written in the block header 2026-04-22T21:55:28Z $ uptime # since last reboot 21:51:50 up 34 days, 12:44, 0 users, load average: 1.61, 1.66, 1.54 $ battery.sh 156%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1762072 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.2G .bitcoin/indexes 4.4G .bitcoin/signet 2.7M .bitcoin/wallets 97.6G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.0G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.3G 476.2G 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 946237 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 946237); echo $BH 0000000000000000000148dc52ce317843eed28084156f73fa49bdd088314b69 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 0000000000000000000148dc52ce317843eed28084156f73fa49bdd088314b69 { "hash": "0000000000000000000148dc52ce317843eed28084156f73fa49bdd088314b69", "confirmations": 1, "height": 946237, "version": 536870912, "versionHex": "20000000", "merkleroot": "bc186ef7f066af51602fec5c51499e289e74eb4e1c6d9142d4f58d4d02d1636c", "time": 1776894928, "mediantime": 1776889860, "nonce": 2723829094, "bits": "17021369", "target": "0000000000000000000213690000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 135594876535256.6, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000121d3d748602c23f46fce4b34", "nTx": 2099, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000015ac624831a15d5143675a01f9e9e934de398866bd3fe" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 48dc 52ce 3178 43ee d28. 8415 6f73 fa49 bdd. 8831 4b69 $ : 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 946237 sf: ...1 d28. bdd. 4b69 $ : 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 . 946237 sk: 4b69 94 $ : 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 . 946237 ak: d5a2 94 $ : Following is the jointkode 946237 jk: 4b69 d5a2 94 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 64652, "bytes": 37523336, "usage": 203573496, "total_fee": 0.05851573, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 3, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 155 ## Current epoch estimation is +0.39% ## 733 of 2016, i.e. 36%, 1283 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.742504628355377e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 943487 9.942372658458654e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 946237, "bestblock": "0000000000000000000148dc52ce317843eed28084156f73fa49bdd088314b69", "txouts": 165421517, "bogosize": 12959169392, "muhash": "b044ac0de78369b146211e15774dca6ce367630854f8e6cf901657db980db2cb", "total_amount": 20019263.65351404, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09648596, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 3972.60366253, "coinbase": 3.14942350, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 3972.57923903, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 946237 { "avgfee": 1164, "avgfeerate": 2, "avgtxsize": 729, "blockhash": "0000000000000000000148dc52ce317843eed28084156f73fa49bdd088314b69", "feerate_percentiles": [ 1, 2, 2, 3, 3 ], "height": 946237, "ins": 8861, "maxfee": 139957, "maxfeerate": 100, "maxtxsize": 69735, "medianfee": 423, "mediantime": 1776889860, "mediantxsize": 223, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 5196, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1181888, "swtotal_weight": 2594411, "swtxs": 1771, "time": 1776894928, "total_out": 397257923903, "total_size": 1531206, "total_weight": 3991683, "totalfee": 2442350, "txs": 2099, "utxo_increase": -3665, "utxo_size_inc": -264536, "utxo_increase_actual": -3763, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -272449 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 4345677107, "totalbytessent": 10017540938, "timemillis": 1776894710893, "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 16 1 17 out 10 0 10 2 total 26 1 27 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 66741, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 66741 } } $ halving.sh 946237 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=946237 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1776894928 This is average time to mine a block (1776894928-1231006505)/946237 bts=576.9039322031032361837085 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Wed Mar 15 18:03:30 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 946649 predicted to happen at this time: Sat Apr 25 15:56:52 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 469. The next fortnight happens in block 947520 and probably around this time: Fri May 1 11:31:35 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 bb56e04d8e607aea 24b18d7fb15b198ecd6ba30fd897bf0f8deaf5aee462543841d757ae9ffb6564 e9ac3bea495c4566 5b94cd7859d115b75a8b650c6f215b37ec5fb01eac56362a4e933b555d763bb6 a500a73d6e035233 351ee3c1263701664117b4845203a28ec3d932c3e8a4db94205d89504f7d7206 0ee993a62fa6c7a3 8baadc50895ecfd9ca62571c0f56c9c308bf36b62b9d8e237774fadfd1cd3a69 5c972ee094c085f5 f60845eed2838874f25e8da9ff71b472f8a5b5f1b786ee5b9cd9043ea2f65c0a 76869486df31dabd 091bfde828610dd37aeb4a9b237655d0287c7ec1c9663e2c926312e249b6301b 4b248962e0f47094 6a20d9b64f467ac32704efe83eab4e0eee3ada71f7b25aea141c27be32ee49f4 0dade7379bf068ff 4d486ab143928c036c873699c727a64962037deaa28549d33f3747c2ee5d0f05 85aa55dbebf351e6 597fe44c50e8cfa42c88b04d97263ff5832ce7a2a14e0bbe20a0f0b924492a95 c1d44979daab4109 1df4de4eacc765863793393202ff28fffffebe2bf35253bacf8be676a96cb444 dc7dbbcddebb38c5 02081c7415c43b51e049154db30edb5c310f3789010dbd5a60f3831015679218 cbb8f6faf60722c8 12a23c00450cf44cc3bae4a23ae22163bab079c0a4ce08c9c23163f072b68a61 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | |__| |___ __| |__ | '_ \ / _ \/ _| / / |_.__/_\___/\__|_\_\ ___ _ _ __ ___ ________ / _ \ | | / /|_ )__ /__ | \_, /_ _/ _ \/ / |_ \ / / /_/ |_|\___/___|___//_/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 48dc 52ce 3178 1f | | 2. 43ee d28. 8415 6f73 2f | | 3. fa49 bdd. 8831 4b69 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 4b69 d5a2 94