# on receiving block 956441 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-07-03T04:08:01Z # as written in the block header 2026-07-03T04:07:27Z $ uptime # since last reboot 04:08:01 up 6 days, 20:38, 0 users, load average: 1.11, 1.08, 1.11 $ battery.sh 100%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1928140 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.4G .bitcoin/indexes 4.7G .bitcoin/signet 2.7M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.8G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.7G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 435.3G 475.1G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v31.1.0rc1 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 956441 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 956441); echo $BH 00000000000000000000a0de91d75d9f40cc9645a148bf288434d98bd05023c6 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000000a0de91d75d9f40cc9645a148bf288434d98bd05023c6 { "hash": "00000000000000000000a0de91d75d9f40cc9645a148bf288434d98bd05023c6", "confirmations": 1, "height": 956441, "version": 537403392, "versionHex": "20082000", "merkleroot": "a44083b6a3cebd176c8a085016c8a5b5ac17983cdbbe1d20e3f36fb6a76f8057", "time": 1783051647, "mediantime": 1783048812, "nonce": 3096609839, "bits": "17021a42", "target": "000000000000000000021a420000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 133869853540305.4, "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000134bed07fb3b57ef2c6dc7a86", "nTx": 5891, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000007613779755aa73aea6121917af8e25292dd7eaa7190f" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... a.de 91d7 5d9f 4.cc 9645 a148 bf28 8434 d98b d.5. 23c6 $ : 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 956441 sf: a.de 4.cc d.5. 23c6 $ : 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 . 956441 sk: 23c6 85 $ : 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 . 956441 ak: .a56 85 $ : Following is the jointkode 956441 jk: 23c6 .a56 85 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 84831, "bytes": 40945314, "usage": 231070096, "total_fee": 0.06629229, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 0, "fullrbf": true, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 161 ## Current epoch estimation is +0.22% ## 857 of 2016, i.e. 42%, 1159 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.598535885871456e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 955583 9.577176399839705e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 953567 8.939523168672514e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 956441, "bestblock": "00000000000000000000a0de91d75d9f40cc9645a148bf288434d98bd05023c6", "txouts": 166128906, "bogosize": 13010950299, "muhash": "dfe04e972960087fedbe8be1690e6c5f94df231c29bd4a8a7c118fc917e7cbcb", "total_amount": 20051151.13948124, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.11051876, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 700.69590474, "coinbase": 3.13754929, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 700.68335545, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 956441 { "avgfee": 213, "avgfeerate": 1, "avgtxsize": 271, "blockhash": "00000000000000000000a0de91d75d9f40cc9645a148bf288434d98bd05023c6", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 1, 3 ], "height": 956441, "ins": 7711, "maxfee": 130530, "maxfeerate": 502, "maxtxsize": 47436, "medianfee": 49, "mediantime": 1783048812, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 10, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 94, "outs": 12317, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1556597, "swtotal_weight": 3816125, "swtxs": 5821, "time": 1783051647, "total_out": 70068335545, "total_size": 1600538, "total_weight": 3991889, "totalfee": 1254929, "txs": 5891, "utxo_increase": 4606, "utxo_size_inc": 326782, "utxo_increase_actual": -664, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -46008 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 1879002148, "totalbytessent": 6007444392, "timemillis": 1783051681751, "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 v31.1.0rc1 - server 70016/Satoshi:31.1.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 23 1 24 out 10 0 10 2 total 33 1 34 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 70605, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 70605 } } $ halving.sh 956441 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=956441 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1783051647 This is average time to mine a block (1783051647-1231006505)/956441 bts=577.1862193421033371600159 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Sun Mar 19 04:23:32 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 956659 predicted to happen at this time: Sat Jul 4 15:04:33 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 474. The next fortnight happens in block 957600 and probably around this time: Fri Jul 10 21:56:45 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 8ef81ed84edc8e66 37abe35f119f30f782e35ad2684afc3bf79ba36a789ca884aa97ca23a2608ca1 28782718d1a10376 15307508b621b59b5280db97d3280dd9905191b8c391950c29ca3e00569a7ecf 085251ed06dafa6c e6a128664bcf8982b588730d56795b2d2293e4b0757ad06f7f9c90767cc17b02 b7266bc85703b5ce 87a84a0dcd6c730357edf794e17f52d47f8519a9cd6f5fd0ef43b755c27d50fd a3c4562064e43e7b 0bd023825cf68923d4988c2c999f67d20abd3ada901b7f98535869c959686068 7af866239b695ed8 4c66140a8e05e9a36c591540d2fa79224aaef961b59d3c80c018246ffea8db78 2911e879515eaa6b 20d5e2419d17e839893762c933b25ace2dbf6c92f673857815fb91cad1dbafd7 4bd0957d4127de67 3d83ed7f397a650facd4a9e205b8b1ded27522fb8e6c466a6af1154582b94414 64e9583bf407f912 7f40a0db3b551a05907c53701df5aa9f23545984dccc3c28259b5311a1dc6ce6 be071ba9f0b97ed4 83361d273a3fc2edaac81b15abfba76d7895cd3bcabe97db783aa15c543a92f2 890f83f97aa59b6b 0bad4f33cabc0e0191d10cfc84d6bed0a79a300905771abc15ca8e02936bffbe $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _|_| _|_|_|_| _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _|_|_| _|_|_| _|_|_| _| _| _| _| _|_|_| _|_|_| _|_| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _| _|_| _|_|_|_| _|_|_|_| _| _| _| _| ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... a.de 91d7 5d9f 1f | | 2. 4.cc 9645 a148 bf28 2f | | 3. 8434 d98b d.5. 23c6 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 23c6 .a56 85