# on receiving block 948929 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-05-11T11:31:03Z # as written in the block header 2026-05-11T11:30:50Z $ uptime # since last reboot 11:31:03 up 53 days, 2:23, 0 users, load average: 2.19, 2.10, 2.04 $ battery.sh 152%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1675700 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 434.5G 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 948929 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 948929); echo $BH 00000000000000000001599112d9fe50c5e13d17db415fd39a9029508125ab61 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000001599112d9fe50c5e13d17db415fd39a9029508125ab61 { "hash": "00000000000000000001599112d9fe50c5e13d17db415fd39a9029508125ab61", "confirmations": 1, "height": 948929, "version": 546504704, "versionHex": "20930000", "merkleroot": "cb7d38251fed274b5b1d943cc7aca6bcb1d42d7f081fd58474354dbd250c78de", "time": 1778499050, "mediantime": 1778496504, "nonce": 350604568, "bits": "17021ff0", "target": "000000000000000000021ff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 132472011079030.5, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000126d5089995521e7774025aa6", "nTx": 3708, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000001bf973b6761423bdc8f2dd5f7cac0c73ed9f215f11937" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 5991 12d9 fe5. c5e1 3d17 db41 5fd3 9a9. 295. 8125 ab61 $ : 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 948929 sf: ...1 fe5. 9a9. 295. 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 . 948929 sk: ab61 84 $ : 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 . 948929 ak: 5.f9 84 $ : Following is the jointkode 948929 jk: ab61 5.f9 84 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 96739, "bytes": 39069491, "usage": 225413664, "total_fee": 0.06016554, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 5, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 153 ## Current epoch estimation is +3.17% ## 1409 of 2016, i.e. 69%, 607 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.781329237316579e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 947519 9.480332550563884e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 948929, "bestblock": "00000000000000000001599112d9fe50c5e13d17db415fd39a9029508125ab61", "txouts": 165147844, "bogosize": 12939187043, "muhash": "644f1795c9c5eea70c7f7a8556d8657df68549801f697867a5297126869e3033", "total_amount": 20027676.15309846, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09690154, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 5169.78529603, "coinbase": 3.14933960, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 5169.76095642, "unspendable": 0.00000001, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000001, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 948929 { "avgfee": 656, "avgfeerate": 2, "avgtxsize": 465, "blockhash": "00000000000000000001599112d9fe50c5e13d17db415fd39a9029508125ab61", "feerate_percentiles": [ 1, 1, 1, 2, 4 ], "height": 948929, "ins": 8420, "maxfee": 72384, "maxfeerate": 106, "maxtxsize": 105329, "medianfee": 322, "mediantime": 1778496504, "mediantxsize": 223, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 9136, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1630392, "swtotal_weight": 3615768, "swtxs": 3461, "time": 1778499050, "total_out": 516976095643, "total_size": 1724441, "total_weight": 3991964, "totalfee": 2433960, "txs": 3708, "utxo_increase": 716, "utxo_size_inc": 58987, "utxo_increase_actual": 265, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 23044 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 3155881215, "totalbytessent": 7130922209, "timemillis": 1778499063740, "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 18 1 19 out 10 0 10 2 total 28 1 29 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 66619, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 66619 } } $ halving.sh 948929 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=948929 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1778499050 This is average time to mine a block (1778499050-1231006505)/948929 bts=576.9577787613417217286838 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 09:45:49 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 949949 predicted to happen at this time: Mon May 18 06:59:06 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 470. The next fortnight happens in block 949536 and probably around this time: Fri May 15 12:47:43 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 11 "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 0b09763ddfe94fbc e45bfc4002a2458d6c399f7a3bf8cc4b9a29221bc8213ed9bc97356ddc396209 429567ebd486d5d7 26549684c7b7b7ee1675097e78d43cd7372488a32676d4741983f828358e20c9 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC | | | _ \ | _ \ _| | / _.__/_|\___/\__|_\_\ _ \ | | _ ) _ \_ ) _ \ \_ /__ _| _ \\_ / /\_ / _/ _|\___/ _/ ___| _/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 5991 12d9 fe5. 1f | | 2. c5e1 3d17 db41 5fd3 2f | | 3. 9a9. 295. 8125 ab61 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: ab61 5.f9 84