# on receiving block 957664 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-07-12T06:05:13Z # as written in the block header 2026-07-12T06:04:22Z $ uptime # since last reboot 06:05:13 up 15 days, 22:36, 0 users, load average: 1.49, 1.54, 1.07 $ battery.sh 100%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 2091560 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.4G .bitcoin/indexes 4.7G .bitcoin/signet 2.6M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.7G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.6G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.8G 475.7G 48% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v31.1.0 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 957664 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 957664); echo $BH 0000000000000000000040e7269df1c830b8f5e8d91ef06d600de240153f785a $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 0000000000000000000040e7269df1c830b8f5e8d91ef06d600de240153f785a { "hash": "0000000000000000000040e7269df1c830b8f5e8d91ef06d600de240153f785a", "confirmations": 1, "height": 957664, "version": 707166208, "versionHex": "2a268000", "merkleroot": "b380b83dae855a8f317ef6a554beb29bdeca3e9160dd1e12c62c7bfe2cdc5edd", "time": 1783836262, "mediantime": 1783833150, "nonce": 1456863537, "bits": "1702369d", "target": "00000000000000000002369d0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 127170500429035.2, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000013702efc3f6a12ebfa713fdda", "nTx": 5872, "previousblockhash": "0000000000000000000185fa61f6ded563504b90bdcd25a4b8b476f9b8b3266d" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... 4.e7 269d f1c8 3.b8 f5e8 d91e f.6d 6..d e24. 153f 785a $ : 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 957664 sf: 4.e7 3.b8 f.6d 6..d 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 . 957664 sk: 785a 65 $ : 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 . 957664 ak: 94b9 65 $ : Following is the jointkode 957664 jk: 785a 94b9 65 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 87515, "bytes": 42833346, "usage": 235827736, "total_fee": 0.07451700, "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 173 ## Current epoch estimation is -0.48% ## 64 of 2016, i.e. 3%, 1952 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.058589746527903e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 957599 9.102434559868438e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 955583 9.577176399839705e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 957664, "bestblock": "0000000000000000000040e7269df1c830b8f5e8d91ef06d600de240153f785a", "txouts": 166334305, "bogosize": 13026601154, "muhash": "950d31b251efd66c77f60f5f039b737e6d2a91172b3496a1f2b2feb766e7c0f9", "total_amount": 20054973.01088735, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.11411265, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 1568.32261151, "coinbase": 3.13445511, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 1568.31315640, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 957664 { "avgfee": 161, "avgfeerate": 0, "avgtxsize": 270, "blockhash": "0000000000000000000040e7269df1c830b8f5e8d91ef06d600de240153f785a", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 1, 2 ], "height": 957664, "ins": 7547, "maxfee": 33900, "maxfeerate": 129, "maxtxsize": 43761, "medianfee": 51, "mediantime": 1783833150, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 0, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 12359, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1535014, "swtotal_weight": 3771979, "swtxs": 5780, "time": 1783836262, "total_out": 156831315640, "total_size": 1589952, "total_weight": 3991731, "totalfee": 945511, "txs": 5872, "utxo_increase": 4812, "utxo_size_inc": 343464, "utxo_increase_actual": -326, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -22209 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 414593532, "totalbytessent": 1189130813, "timemillis": 1783836313388, "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 v31.1.0 - server 70016/Satoshi:31.1.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 17 2 19 out 10 0 10 2 total 27 2 29 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 70536, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 70536 } } $ halving.sh 957664 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=957664 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1783836262 This is average time to mine a block (1783836262-1231006505)/957664 bts=577.2684153644541671670156 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Mon Mar 20 04:21:58 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 957759 predicted to happen at this time: Sun Jul 12 21:18:22 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 475. The next fortnight happens in block 959616 and probably around this time: Sat Jul 25 07:04:49 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 7ed2c99944975ef3 594a740c568feb00cdbcdb60c1603dcf483beaf747791afd3de1ad2369c41f3c 3616fc47abe591bb eaf20e579d4dce84875fb522541c9a210fcbff6fdb5246f05511e97fd5cefb5f bca3f180c71b309b 008c9cc3e3dbceaf86f81c092521b2300c99f5e36704b4339fe44bf424e9af67 781268726fc989b0 0aca0d39c42ac071294019ab2921c6d4b4989f7ed8532b85a8f32f30af239ac5 19fb7307a8fff42b 8955b03b40edfa9b3986eccc57729325d9263ede446308940c7e6d0fea3ded42 470fe6189ad4601f 43ed3acf8c37abd8244a61bc2f67bd8440bc4593c37801ce3e23f7543f9f2210 b45fe2def933cef3 461e15fcd554949d61805ef7dcb13aa88c1bf55ddb6bbf20cbed42ee70ad8480 63e0c07ebd7bdb86 996ca734d600370c54e613307f555afced26f1fab2fe5fe292e1d1992208e72f d5ea575ce5f75f47 65ee63b91c0c8253d92b33c5d7bef9498a7b8687dde894e8e32d6be818a2255f 3af1ee14bb2937fe 2e63ca008f789d210eb793c01bd3c164c0ffbfd826b736088c0a5f70f27c671b 56dc717325b4c22e d66abda6cdf9ac3eac6e6d76222a8aacd3ac9bb327f09308878155849141ad9c $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ___ _____ ______ / _ \| ____|____ | | (_) | |__ / / \__, |___ \ / / / / ___) | / / /_/ |____/ /_/ __ __ _ _ / / / /| || | / /_ / /_| || |_ | '_ \| '_ \__ _| | (_) | (_) | | | \___/ \___/ |_| ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... 4.e7 269d f1c8 1f | | 2. 3.b8 f5e8 d91e f.6d 2f | | 3. 6..d e24. 153f 785a 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 785a 94b9 65