# on receiving block 948148 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-05-06T09:36:20Z # as written in the block header 2026-05-06T09:35:45Z $ uptime # since last reboot 09:36:20 up 48 days, 29 min, 0 users, load average: 1.70, 1.55, 1.59 $ battery.sh 152%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1978252 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.2G .bitcoin/indexes 4.4G .bitcoin/signet 2.6M .bitcoin/wallets 97.8G .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 948148 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 948148); echo $BH 000000000000000000020978ffb1178e7b9615f92851bb4c6aa07895470bc06a $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 000000000000000000020978ffb1178e7b9615f92851bb4c6aa07895470bc06a { "hash": "000000000000000000020978ffb1178e7b9615f92851bb4c6aa07895470bc06a", "confirmations": 1, "height": 948148, "version": 852721664, "versionHex": "32d38000", "merkleroot": "9160a34006fde195cde46a5c5648b822c666f974d9ac364a8eacd4edbadeb17f", "time": 1778060145, "mediantime": 1778057196, "nonce": 826930698, "bits": "17021ff0", "target": "000000000000000000021ff00000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 132472011079030.5, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000012565764274a3fb3a2e7141af", "nTx": 5109, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000000fa307cdb0e3a065548960fd8c3f59c017bba2017b1ac" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...2 .978 ffb1 178e 7b96 15f9 2851 bb4c 6aa. 7895 47.b c.6a $ : 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 948148 sf: ...2 .978 6aa. 47.b 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 . 948148 sk: c.6a 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 . 948148 ak: 8963 74 $ : Following is the jointkode 948148 jk: c06a 8963 74 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 34756, "bytes": 30653120, "usage": 153586600, "total_fee": 0.04430263, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 4, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 144 ## Current epoch estimation is -0.28% ## 628 of 2016, i.e. 31%, 1388 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.452862110448634e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 947519 9.480332550563884e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 945503 9.704094538460986e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 948148, "bestblock": "000000000000000000020978ffb1178e7b9615f92851bb4c6aa07895470bc06a", "txouts": 165093861, "bogosize": 12935476263, "muhash": "91fe67a1598e0eaae030ae63105ca3b6c8adbaf4eb173d45e907fb23a1a572fd", "total_amount": 20025235.52821593, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.09678407, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 260.76470308, "coinbase": 3.13094145, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 260.75876163, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 948148 { "avgfee": 116, "avgfeerate": 0, "avgtxsize": 320, "blockhash": "000000000000000000020978ffb1178e7b9615f92851bb4c6aa07895470bc06a", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 ], "height": 948148, "ins": 8516, "maxfee": 64102, "maxfeerate": 100, "maxtxsize": 208006, "medianfee": 39, "mediantime": 1778057196, "mediantxsize": 222, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 10698, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1570113, "swtotal_weight": 3715296, "swtxs": 5065, "time": 1778060145, "total_out": 26075876163, "total_size": 1639278, "total_weight": 3991956, "totalfee": 594145, "txs": 5109, "utxo_increase": 2182, "utxo_size_inc": 150597, "utxo_increase_actual": -2554, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -186882 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 1291208392, "totalbytessent": 2950145275, "timemillis": 1778060180980, "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 17 1 18 out 10 0 10 2 total 27 1 28 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 66601, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 66601 } } $ halving.sh 948148 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=948148 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1778060145 This is average time to mine a block (1778060145-1231006505)/948148 bts=576.9701175659099993777349 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 16 13:21:45 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 948849 predicted to happen at this time: Mon May 11 01:56:41 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 470. The next fortnight happens in block 949536 and probably around this time: Fri May 15 16:02:59 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 f6ec3ac7bfaf9e16 bcaa63a01b594bd138e5ec157f4b21a239b616c1e035d5315ca1cadccbbe590d 80498a2486d1edfc dcbddfc89ec8ebc4621ee1cf001fd89cb1263c99b5ccfb9a3605f0af86baabf4 84df2eb6646ffcb6 e1563625553e21951790d3f45aa4f71278f7a5b55885ee20035831ffccb919ac 3b88200106a3f2ec 035ce4c854454959e994b247779eddbb6978345073b7ab4cdda2c340358f4c62 785ecefa522498c6 85d8ec6361474b454e8c1d2f657db7248f34290bce777d36c9acc43c97996714 6fd8cf508542a08c 0b44b930ddaee964a39ed1e061250bfc716131c9da4b425029036628e98a6408 b904c55d58f527b2 53cd9d85cf6dd1012a5e152647e61463c35eba07965434002f56cf53efd5e524 b620dc1a3c540f43 9a68485391d619e1ed9ea8b17f2a7feda4d97e77497596de004d873ac2f9d812 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC __ __ __ / / / /__ ____/ /__ / _ \/ / _ \/ __/ '_/ /_.__/_/\___/\__/_/\_\ ___ ____ ___ _______ ___ / _ \/ / /( _ < / / /( _ ) \_, /_ _/ _ / /_ _/ _ | /___/ /_/ \___/_/ /_/ \___/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...2 .978 ffb1 178e 1f | | 2. 7b96 15f9 2851 bb4c 2f | | 3. 6aa. 7895 47.b c.6a 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: c.6a 8963 74