# on receiving block 967731 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-09-19T18:28:14Z # as written in the block header 2026-09-19T18:28:06Z $ uptime # since last reboot 18:28:14 up 31 days, 8:44, 0 users, load average: 5.53, 2.73, 1.80 $ battery.sh 102%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.44-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1322864 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.6G .bitcoin/indexes 5.0G .bitcoin/signet 88.0M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 126.3G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 437.2G 473.2G 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 967731 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 967731); echo $BH 000000000000000000012172fa09977299bc1dbd6edb9b7e4da4c8d093691287 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 000000000000000000012172fa09977299bc1dbd6edb9b7e4da4c8d093691287 { "hash": "000000000000000000012172fa09977299bc1dbd6edb9b7e4da4c8d093691287", "confirmations": 1, "height": 967731, "version": 759840768, "versionHex": "2d4a4000", "merkleroot": "fcb9195c72c819f8910fce856b4ac78c3fb64f0a83b77253a34fed3c233b029d", "time": 1789842486, "mediantime": 1789839014, "nonce": 2410888648, "bits": "17021ec5", "target": "000000000000000000021ec50000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 132757073449487.5, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000148bc0b80afcf48b0df6a10d8", "nTx": 4386, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000000d7decd57c4221866464aef04799a82be9d4d032d056d" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 2172 fa.9 9772 99bc 1dbd 6edb 9b7e 4da4 c8d. 9369 1287 $ : 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 967731 sf: ...1 fa.9 c8d. 1287 $ : 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 . 967731 sk: 1287 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 . 967731 ak: 3936 94 $ : Following is the jointkode 967731 jk: 1287 3936 94 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 80905, "bytes": 41385852, "usage": 231328376, "total_fee": 0.07997297, "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 193 ## Current epoch estimation is -1.07% ## 51 of 2016, i.e. 2%, 1965 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.398012729134708e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 967679 9.500046813447429e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 965663 9.102936500339878e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 967731, "bestblock": "000000000000000000012172fa09977299bc1dbd6edb9b7e4da4c8d093691287", "txouts": 165266372, "bogosize": 12946237534, "muhash": "efce1e35d351bd0b194d41702b57af39ead9483afe981ae595f03cc846eb3ab8", "total_amount": 20086432.37916765, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.12083235, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 6719.36486644, "coinbase": 3.17529947, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 6719.31456697, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 967731 { "avgfee": 1147, "avgfeerate": 5, "avgtxsize": 357, "blockhash": "000000000000000000012172fa09977299bc1dbd6edb9b7e4da4c8d093691287", "feerate_percentiles": [ 1, 3, 4, 4, 6 ], "height": 967731, "ins": 7043, "maxfee": 155050, "maxfeerate": 469, "maxtxsize": 39133, "medianfee": 570, "mediantime": 1789839014, "mediantxsize": 223, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 13066, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1512323, "swtotal_weight": 3764906, "swtxs": 4222, "time": 1789842486, "total_out": 671931456697, "total_size": 1569042, "total_weight": 3991782, "totalfee": 5029947, "txs": 4386, "utxo_increase": 6023, "utxo_size_inc": 439132, "utxo_increase_actual": 5430, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 391723 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 18316388840, "totalbytessent": 44472949235, "timemillis": 1789842494492, "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 28 1 29 out 10 0 10 2 total 38 1 39 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 78627, "ipv6": 306, "onion": 1811, "i2p": 6, "cjdns": 0, "total": 80750 } } $ halving.sh 967731 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=967731 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1789842486 This is average time to mine a block (1789842486-1231006505)/967731 bts=577.4697757230307564490995 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Wed Mar 22 15:05:46 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 967769 predicted to happen at this time: Sun Sep 20 00:33:49 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 480. The next fortnight happens in block 969696 and probably around this time: Fri Oct 2 21:40:14 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 d7201869eca3629d 8c9cf0f7fee6a6d179c6b50e980e102ad5d3f0f9ff453e956ad6287e3f881d79 e4e0241ae017d60e 97ba5b67971b0b0b1a9b5d5f18e7766d776bbbc96729312713b9417376930a03 e0a1adad8382d9e0 c3e1be3d4b5b1bc9891aa2017a184015a454bd1b5c2947e93ff5c1ff5fdf490e 646ebacd2d74e318 488cad6d1e128d49f2f49128fca82047c09fade0e0cbc9a0978d2e26484ccd8e bf320b8f136696ac fd9c2f189f8c9a24fd38bade3a9ce4b7d50d11043691b7c1233349d8b9cc14b2 83f6ce849ae8fe0e a13314c2021f6186384c5bc020ebf1c1405d1f83be68263de3f0437f2c0a8bbf 18a3696c699a75af d67fe964c9abe8e51e92efcca88532609d00ad86090012b5301a31e81b05d68d 1eeba50e60490dce 0c9d10718b303f95254e01c5c1b560b76683ee408d3cd4f78b583d7dd35eee19 cf46cb2f34f5c7ef 1bba8050e8901663abf3bdbb645293b5aa9427ebb44c0315ce75f3af6b010db4 6788a11f3f2e7db8 e17772148d9244ffbe122e29252ba76ae26aacec5af1ecf3e2b0c0bd534b072b 041eaafa9d1f977e 7be73fdea54f44a3948c6866641b2be645b49dab49ea0fba0387893294a9ebdb 0c7103abb04eedd6 7cd8ddf8f18963e1301cb7fb4eb05868d770a20db3382212e3bfe0b9168493bd $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ____ __________ _____________ / __ \/ ___/__ / /__ /__ < / / /_/ / __ \ / / / / /_