# on receiving block 968653 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-09-26T06:57:15Z # as written in the block header 2026-09-26T06:56:49Z $ uptime # since last reboot 06:57:15 up 37 days, 21:13, 0 users, load average: 1.47, 1.52, 1.45 $ battery.sh 102%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.44-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1882992 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 8.0K .bitcoin/fees 126.2G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 437.6G 472.8G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v32.0.0rc2 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 968653 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 968653); echo $BH 00000000000000000000f824241452c3207bf9353010c4f118145194f7259671 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000000f824241452c3207bf9353010c4f118145194f7259671 { "hash": "00000000000000000000f824241452c3207bf9353010c4f118145194f7259671", "confirmations": 1, "height": 968653, "version": 611016704, "versionHex": "246b6000", "merkleroot": "202d63a88d936305d684bd9d77b9e609d391b72a79b7d40d557f9edba91e93cb", "time": 1790405809, "mediantime": 1790402845, "nonce": 45892500, "bits": "17021ec5", "target": "000000000000000000021ec50000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 132757073449487.5, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000014a6ee9310def32b332a49b74", "nTx": 6496, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000000d0a933c5763a7a02704236223af53838f71afd5f9c60" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... f824 2414 52c3 2.7b f935 3.1. c4f1 1814 5194 f725 9671 $ : 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 968653 sf: 2.7b 3.1. 9671 $ : 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 . 968653 sk: 9671 95 $ : 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 . 968653 ak: 8b88 95 $ : Following is the jointkode 968653 jk: 9671 8b88 95 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 72044, "bytes": 40061834, "usage": 222702720, "total_fee": 0.05994061, "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 149 ## Current epoch estimation is -1.96% ## 973 of 2016, i.e. 48%, 1043 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.313783391466812e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 967679 9.500046813447429e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 965663 9.102936500339878e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 968653, "bestblock": "00000000000000000000f824241452c3207bf9353010c4f118145194f7259671", "txouts": 165247925, "bogosize": 12944357208, "muhash": "86945b2757c5f45525abcdb0804a45c97c4c3ae97597bdcdfa74de9b6c969739", "total_amount": 20089313.62729205, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.12270795, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 2554.45237860, "coinbase": 3.12934163, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 2554.44803697, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 968653 { "avgfee": 66, "avgfeerate": 0, "avgtxsize": 245, "blockhash": "00000000000000000000f824241452c3207bf9353010c4f118145194f7259671", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ], "height": 968653, "ins": 8440, "maxfee": 23814, "maxfeerate": 14, "maxtxsize": 148542, "medianfee": 44, "mediantime": 1790402845, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 10, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 67, "outs": 13265, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1489493, "swtotal_weight": 3565673, "swtxs": 5377, "time": 1790405809, "total_out": 255444803697, "total_size": 1596069, "total_weight": 3991977, "totalfee": 434163, "txs": 6496, "utxo_increase": 4825, "utxo_size_inc": 337674, "utxo_increase_actual": -1442, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -102258 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 971825212, "totalbytessent": 2132482196, "timemillis": 1790405835664, "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 v32.0.0rc2 - server 70017/Satoshi:32.0.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 12 2 14 out 10 0 10 2 total 22 2 24 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 78821, "ipv6": 306, "onion": 1799, "i2p": 6, "cjdns": 0, "total": 80932 } } $ halving.sh 968653 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=968653 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1790405809 This is average time to mine a block (1790405809-1231006505)/968653 bts=577.5016713914359513304028 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 23 00:23:57 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 968869 predicted to happen at this time: Sun Sep 27 17:35:49 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 480. The next fortnight happens in block 969696 and probably around this time: Sat Oct 3 06:15:43 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 a506c099c12109f7 0c99f5af1ca3b8a7ab843e5e0b5d88f80f2c8418ae8d693df802a213dfc64aaf bc7e228a9f4d695f 09ecffc5e91d7d778458643e05cb74688abfeddc152a10931e0bbbaf7289aa86 f0d668813b1ae5fc 56ad083f140f7a54d3da87c99eb22a12bf9e81daabf3816c040be54e8ebb9c36 c283e5895570fddb 89138ad56a65e2cf72ae8a338ba552fc6c891bdf469300805803e264ec0d2954 d9b67c073b22513e 48935cba6153687b1e91354fba5e674e3ec7b06fdc60e90068927f1270514de5 d0f19c0740b06b46 c0aa4bf22e9c376f0b86bac55df2556005ee7f014f92d82583927e67ae31b00a 22f867ba147c372b fcf00c4cc43a979ba54da04fd6e2354e9ddef75dec09af61b3113e2fa4127279 f5bb70896a636fcd a21b50c51306ebd6082a524ce4eea988738b0d944af31ae915974052bee73205 bb284c76cb67caf5 1b79f53c5d29766092793db8254f9360f9ea05ceb2bc9dd9eb4ca837953aade4 f9c0505a17a75217 70ef2548d92ed820cd052240390ac134616f6bae053b2d6e377114b711fc85a7 827741dc607385f8 e23aedc428647a1f56ed27425ebf25ee9dec1c90face717fcfbc8e6b40c5b42d 02212ecf6df649e2 20e6dd74acb38fdfff0c63821ac9f7f2b0eb0dfd1a43c85fbf0b292fc0421340 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ___ __ ___ / _ \ / / / _ \ | (_) |/ /_ | (_) | \__, | '_ \ > _ < / /| (_) | (_) | /_/ \___/ \___/ __ _____ ____ / /| ____|___ \ / /_| |__ __) | | '_ \___ \ |__ < | (_) |__) |___) | \___/____/|____/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... f824 2414 52c3 1f | | 2. 2.7b f935 3.1. c4f1 2f | | 3. 1814 5194 f725 9671 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 9671 8b88 95