# on receiving block 948220 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-05-06T21:51:44Z # as written in the block header 2026-05-06T21:51:40Z $ uptime # since last reboot 21:51:44 up 48 days, 12:44, 0 users, load average: 1.59, 1.80, 1.72 $ battery.sh 156%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1966960 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.2G .bitcoin/indexes 4.4G .bitcoin/signet 2.6M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .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 434.5G 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 948220 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 948220); echo $BH 00000000000000000001ad216cd93298a5aa2883178da5963fe648c3ca89df6b $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000001ad216cd93298a5aa2883178da5963fe648c3ca89df6b { "hash": "00000000000000000001ad216cd93298a5aa2883178da5963fe648c3ca89df6b", "confirmations": 1, "height": 948220, "version": 618840064, "versionHex": "24e2c000", "merkleroot": "cedfe6cd40ded9cc26f62b4f8f9fb4e0bfe1ec3579d28580fd3eb7d5f1959766", "time": 1778104300, "mediantime": 1778099912, "nonce": 1897418028, "bits": "17021ff0", "target": "000000000000000000021ff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 132472011079030.5, "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000001258759237b424b2d795cdf07", "nTx": 2345, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000010861de7b289536fc74099f79e1f954d0b3085062b7f6" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 ad21 6cd9 3298 a5aa 2883 178d a596 3fe6 48c3 ca89 df6b $ : 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 948220 sf: ...1 df6b $ : 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 . 948220 sk: df6b b4 $ : 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 . 948220 ak: ae94 b4 $ : Following is the jointkode 948220 jk: df6b ae94 b4 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 50108, "bytes": 33482733, "usage": 173663016, "total_fee": 0.05151364, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 1, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 153 ## Current epoch estimation is -0.46% ## 700 of 2016, i.e. 34%, 1316 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.436085135571022e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 947519 9.480332550563884e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 948220, "bestblock": "00000000000000000001ad216cd93298a5aa2883178da5963fe648c3ca89df6b", "txouts": 165032471, "bogosize": 12931051965, "muhash": "d7c86144be4c2d27f0adbd27b20ff94e5272064901b98a5baabce876c9066111", "total_amount": 20025460.52821584, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09678416, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 2731.88169409, "coinbase": 3.14389958, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 2731.86279451, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 948220 { "avgfee": 806, "avgfeerate": 1, "avgtxsize": 703, "blockhash": "00000000000000000001ad216cd93298a5aa2883178da5963fe648c3ca89df6b", "feerate_percentiles": [ 1, 1, 2, 2, 2 ], "height": 948220, "ins": 9310, "maxfee": 136082, "maxfeerate": 215, "maxtxsize": 148534, "medianfee": 282, "mediantime": 1778099912, "mediantxsize": 223, "minfee": 14, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 6000, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1418883, "swtotal_weight": 3078009, "swtxs": 2184, "time": 1778104300, "total_out": 273186279451, "total_size": 1647869, "total_weight": 3993953, "totalfee": 1889958, "txs": 2345, "utxo_increase": -3310, "utxo_size_inc": -236907, "utxo_increase_actual": -3637, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -262063 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 1463661015, "totalbytessent": 3308146892, "timemillis": 1778104305190, "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 15 1 16 out 10 0 10 2 total 25 1 26 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 66466, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 66466 } } $ halving.sh 948220 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=948220 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1778104300 This is average time to mine a block (1778104300-1231006505)/948220 bts=576.9728734124217877477929 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 14:09:59 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 948849 predicted to happen at this time: Mon May 11 02:40:15 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 470. The next fortnight happens in block 949536 and probably around this time: Fri May 15 16:46:36 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 304f3f4f2dc36be5 83c5f1d773fbcd2cb554d2066dc0d4932ea28e2377128a876c65eee214616368 80498a2486d1edfc dcbddfc89ec8ebc4621ee1cf001fd89cb1263c99b5ccfb9a3605f0af86baabf4 84df2eb6646ffcb6 e1563625553e21951790d3f45aa4f71278f7a5b55885ee20035831ffccb919ac 3b88200106a3f2ec 035ce4c854454959e994b247779eddbb6978345073b7ab4cdda2c340358f4c62 785ecefa522498c6 85d8ec6361474b454e8c1d2f657db7248f34290bce777d36c9acc43c97996714 6fd8cf508542a08c 0b44b930ddaee964a39ed1e061250bfc716131c9da4b425029036628e98a6408 b904c55d58f527b2 53cd9d85cf6dd1012a5e152647e61463c35eba07965434002f56cf53efd5e524 b620dc1a3c540f43 9a68485391d619e1ed9ea8b17f2a7feda4d97e77497596de004d873ac2f9d812 b6329c3e237de403 5ee88a81d03712752a13ebfedf5a8e9de0df61818649ab5450d95e5f41d5460a $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC __ __ __ / / / /__ ____/ /__ / _ \/ / _ \/ __/ '_/ /_.__/_/\___/\__/_/\_\ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ ___ / _ \/ / /( _ )|_ ||_ |/ _ \ \_, /_ _/ _ / __// __// // / /___/ /_/ \___/____/____/\___/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 ad21 6cd9 3298 1f | | 2. a5aa 2883 178d a596 2f | | 3. 3fe6 48c3 ca89 df6b 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: df6b ae94 b4