# on receiving block 948754 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-05-10T08:40:37Z # as written in the block header 2026-05-10T08:40:21Z $ uptime # since last reboot 08:40:37 up 51 days, 23:33, 0 users, load average: 2.08, 2.16, 1.87 $ battery.sh 156%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1764548 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.2G .bitcoin/indexes 4.5G .bitcoin/signet 2.6M .bitcoin/wallets 97.6G .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 434.4G 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 948754 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 948754); echo $BH 00000000000000000001b088c6b37052f175a5c2890f1c11a3b1fc45be721c09 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000001b088c6b37052f175a5c2890f1c11a3b1fc45be721c09 { "hash": "00000000000000000001b088c6b37052f175a5c2890f1c11a3b1fc45be721c09", "confirmations": 1, "height": 948754, "version": 537034752, "versionHex": "20028000", "merkleroot": "8a92413e306cbbce73a3d6f60684afde344eb1b05822c3d4f427b378cf57f7d2", "time": 1778402421, "mediantime": 1778400846, "nonce": 3414148244, "bits": "17021ff0", "target": "000000000000000000021ff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 132472011079030.5, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000012682abd317031c248fb058a9", "nTx": 6216, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000016f3f0b346cb0f0adb1947dcd5b988aa89dfafc0c7d7e" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 b.88 c6b3 7.52 f175 a5c2 89.f 1c11 a3b1 fc45 be72 1c.9 $ : 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 948754 sf: ...1 b.88 7.52 89.f 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 . 948754 sk: 1c.9 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 . 948754 ak: 3a4e 74 $ : Following is the jointkode 948754 jk: 1c09 3a4e 74 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 29297, "bytes": 30198524, "usage": 148098928, "total_fee": 0.04168589, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 2, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 138 ## Current epoch estimation is +2.29% ## 1234 of 2016, i.e. 61%, 782 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.697699193777726e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 947519 9.480332550563884e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 948754, "bestblock": "00000000000000000001b088c6b37052f175a5c2890f1c11a3b1fc45be721c09", "txouts": 165152355, "bogosize": 12939458363, "muhash": "62bc43356a0a16bc75c2717174cc393861e30b6481a584cd4cdbb14e9c039df3", "total_amount": 20027129.27812908, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09687092, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 893.22826718, "coinbase": 3.13018346, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 893.22308372, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 948754 { "avgfee": 83, "avgfeerate": 0, "avgtxsize": 261, "blockhash": "00000000000000000001b088c6b37052f175a5c2890f1c11a3b1fc45be721c09", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 ], "height": 948754, "ins": 7662, "maxfee": 70425, "maxfeerate": 20, "maxtxsize": 131053, "medianfee": 40, "mediantime": 1778400846, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 16, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 153, "outs": 12626, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1615152, "swtotal_weight": 3963339, "swtxs": 6182, "time": 1778402421, "total_out": 89322308372, "total_size": 1623253, "total_weight": 3995743, "totalfee": 518346, "txs": 6216, "utxo_increase": 4964, "utxo_size_inc": 353564, "utxo_increase_actual": -928, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -65755 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 2729131073, "totalbytessent": 6063472954, "timemillis": 1778402437578, "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 7 1 8 out 10 0 10 2 total 17 1 18 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 65614, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 65614 } } $ halving.sh 948754 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=948754 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1778402421 This is average time to mine a block (1778402421-1231006505)/948754 bts=576.9623517135614568566173 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 11:05:51 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 948849 predicted to happen at this time: Sun May 10 23:53:52 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 470. The next fortnight happens in block 949536 and probably around this time: Fri May 15 14:00:05 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 b904c55d58f527b2 53cd9d85cf6dd1012a5e152647e61463c35eba07965434002f56cf53efd5e524 5aed91b1829fc962 d534201e0003f1a2fd4b8dd1b949939b0bdd491ba20105264ec824f68c6fcfb1 94c759ee18e36676 dc83829c6c57f138f8aba178707d9289f07630183b964387a52e00cec81c6174 1d0b6c41ad2da45e 112ebc501200d84198df83b79c4d3cbe2de4e2f13e871f301bcc4f49caf1ab36 e8a344a22779db58 a95fd64799e7b960572b6c0f810e27f1b769c37d02899c8ab20b5286cbc6f7f8 2abdf30cb3257f1c e457b07a3bd4f36f8afd2ad7c44925b047cfadedc0009898a47930d695dc24ee 379fcbc5f1424b20 30f2b5c6a57c1656cc1929ff349c9eced76d4e88b99ee55a53e2d902e2f56243 84fac107171db336 6fde277633d3ad8c35af39d478fe4c3d86ffd772cc7d3d6efca5471e3d6ffd8e 6bad8a5e5fb75c47 c29299d235a02b6dc407cb5d2ddc52c080fb6a3a3e84567051618857e7eb3c88 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ___ _ _ ___ / _ \| || | / _ \ | (_) | || || (_) | \__, |__ _> _ < / / | || (_) | /_/ |_| \___/ ______ _____ _ _ |____ | ____| || | / /| |__ | || |_ / / |___ \|__ _| / / ___) | | | /_/ |____/ |_| ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 b.88 c6b3 7.52 1f | | 2. f175 a5c2 89.f 1c11 2f | | 3. a3b1 fc45 be72 1c.9 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 1c.9 3a4e 74