# on receiving block 958324 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-07-16T21:06:03Z # as written in the block header 2026-07-16T21:05:52Z $ uptime # since last reboot 21:06:03 up 20 days, 13:37, 0 users, load average: 1.06, 1.14, 1.06 $ battery.sh 141%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.2-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1911200 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 10.8G .bitcoin/chainstate 125.8G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 434.9G 475.6G 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 958324 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 958324); echo $BH 00000000000000000000d9715842f35f301fc371d8e0ca1b318d8f497f8c99b3 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000000d9715842f35f301fc371d8e0ca1b318d8f497f8c99b3 { "hash": "00000000000000000000d9715842f35f301fc371d8e0ca1b318d8f497f8c99b3", "confirmations": 1, "height": 958324, "version": 561938432, "versionHex": "217e8000", "merkleroot": "a82b5ed0f183910a21f99d996bdd26fc61f4d2176a5bc4faad01e1d5a8cf8799", "time": 1784235952, "mediantime": 1784232752, "nonce": 2317805132, "bits": "1702369d", "target": "00000000000000000002369d0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 127170500429035.2, "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000001382d211f349d1b12e7bb09e2", "nTx": 4028, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000020f71f583fcff566d04cd2c8586549b12e9a3d3e8d5d3" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... d971 5842 f35f 3.1f c371 d8e. ca1b 318d 8f49 7f8c 99b3 $ : 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 958324 sf: 3.1f d8e. 99b3 $ : 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 . 958324 sk: 99b3 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 . 958324 ak: cb.2 95 $ : Following is the jointkode 958324 jk: 99b3 cb.2 95 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 99886, "bytes": 44890847, "usage": 255296040, "total_fee": 0.08580987, "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 191 ## Current epoch estimation is -1.51% ## 724 of 2016, i.e. 35%, 1292 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 8.964573980910205e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 957599 9.102434559868438e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 955583 9.577176399839705e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 958324, "bestblock": "00000000000000000000d9715842f35f301fc371d8e0ca1b318d8f497f8c99b3", "txouts": 166120952, "bogosize": 13008604904, "muhash": "31aa5567f6a0842497e821230e7268198053cb99507cd3df935b79034c98a44d", "total_amount": 20057035.51084605, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.11415395, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 1771.80033154, "coinbase": 3.14001255, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 1771.78531899, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 958324 { "avgfee": 372, "avgfeerate": 1, "avgtxsize": 443, "blockhash": "00000000000000000000d9715842f35f301fc371d8e0ca1b318d8f497f8c99b3", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 1, 1, 3 ], "height": 958324, "ins": 8973, "maxfee": 93245, "maxfeerate": 725, "maxtxsize": 174351, "medianfee": 146, "mediantime": 1784232752, "mediantxsize": 222, "minfee": 10, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 66, "outs": 8747, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1723238, "swtotal_weight": 3737234, "swtxs": 3684, "time": 1784235952, "total_out": 177178531899, "total_size": 1786909, "total_weight": 3991918, "totalfee": 1501255, "txs": 4028, "utxo_increase": -226, "utxo_size_inc": -37391, "utxo_increase_actual": -2076, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -169688 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 1239279105, "totalbytessent": 3326293946, "timemillis": 1784235963908, "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": 70456, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 70456 } } $ halving.sh 958324 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=958324 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1784235952 This is average time to mine a block (1784235952-1231006505)/958324 bts=577.2879211123574987608587 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Mon Mar 20 10:03:19 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 958859 predicted to happen at this time: Mon Jul 20 10:53:21 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 475. The next fortnight happens in block 959616 and probably around this time: Sat Jul 25 12:16:47 UTC 2026 ### v2_peerinfo are in v2_peerinfo-bitcoin.txt $ bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo | grep -w 'v2' | uniq -c 10 "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 ebd3d034bf50288a 399b997f12ff7db55821e7ccdb9ab2cc1fb73a4e3426689d767d767a541ad247 f0547df15071a665 2ab995ebbd8ab8c6bc57ce16a1e299907c35a27dc4f9aba387389d635b6d177b c4f69c6b64988558 45a5870946e2b09eff26a39b57d7bd7087c6acea0f335b0f97dd1a006f2c2df9 1192b7edbdf7ac4f 6417b0df01e77e5caf52d43145f5e4abf2f33dbd222a1261931405e4f7ed3344 9820b1936de71bbb 6af4bbcdc9ddaa838d24b313bb52a345f81adbae407973894dc0b660e2813895 9264b654ad9a74a3 195ca89c2c4b56301b4833b55699d0f2ff31e52f48ef8d0d4ab3e3b65c864c4e 67358431c6d93566 27106861b2dc425903842c0e38f927c6541823e02a7fcb996921d6c1f6553ef8 ab32d37295d707c3 033cbcba7951f18d49a82ad784cbd21ab0cee0203c0dd15ac260528a36ff4dcc 10221f67b8521311 ec37446ea11a718a8a77c45d0bb6ea26fbfdda9fd923ed096f1e6ec0c4a23992 9e538a15818bf18e 605aa75529647b854acd91b519aeda486f662cd9cd9a54aef64e8676d88936c4 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC _ _ _ | |__| |___ __| |__ | '_ \ / _ \/ _| / / |_.__/_\___/\__|_\_\ ___ ___ ___ _______ _ _ / _ \ __|( _ )__ /_ ) | | \_, /__ \/ _ \|_ \/ /|_ _| /_/|___/\___/___/___| |_| ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... d971 5842 f35f 1f | | 2. 3.1f c371 d8e. ca1b 2f | | 3. 318d 8f49 7f8c 99b3 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: 99b3 cb.2 95