# on receiving block 896993 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2025-05-16T18:03:40Z # as written in the block header 2025-05-16T18:03:14Z $ uptime # since last reboot 18:03:40 up 103 days, 5:43, 0 users, load average: 2.46, 2.38, 1.66 $ battery.sh 128%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.6.37-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1810412 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 11.2G .bitcoin/indexes 1.9G .bitcoin/signet 3.4M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 11.0G .bitcoin/chainstate 121.8G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 836.5G 74.0G 92% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v29.99.0-92b05c17b147 Copyright (C) 2009-2025 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 896993 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 896993); echo $BH 00000000000000000001e891bf767b0c93e452677ec659773a61761e30825cc7 $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000001e891bf767b0c93e452677ec659773a61761e30825cc7 { "hash": "00000000000000000001e891bf767b0c93e452677ec659773a61761e30825cc7", "confirmations": 1, "height": 896993, "version": 666566656, "versionHex": "27bb0000", "merkleroot": "e3a8f7ddce0764b4fd1aa68c4f46bbb8682a39d95313bc8d2286bd0057da397d", "time": 1747418594, "mediantime": 1747414592, "nonce": 2931983759, "bits": "17025ced", "target": "000000000000000000025ced0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 119116256505723.5, "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000c398ff11714f712b3ce7281c", "nTx": 3309, "previousblockhash": "000000000000000000013ee25a586a10f3a6b182fce5edb809641541b4f9847e" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... ...1 e891 bf76 7b.c 93e4 5267 7ec6 5977 3a61 761e 3.82 5cc7 $ : 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 896993 sf: ...1 7b.c 3.82 5cc7 $ : 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 . 896993 sk: 5cc7 94 $ : 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 . 896993 ak: eae2 94 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 43219, "bytes": 27938350, "usage": 132666720, "total_fee": 1.58438843, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00001000, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00001000, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00001000, "unbroadcastcount": 0, "fullrbf": true } $ gmm.sh 5669 ## Current epoch estimation is +2.79% ## 1889 of 2016, i.e. 93%, 127 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 8.762761605390101e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 895103 8.524479268489561e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 893087 8.821342073060424e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 896993, "bestblock": "00000000000000000001e891bf767b0c93e452677ec659773a61761e30825cc7", "txouts": 171603924, "bogosize": 13433163536, "muhash": "5d89fe408fcf7a6edea000dbfdab656dc20321e3c4002fc8bdfef5ec9bc847a7", "total_amount": 19865385.22597006, "total_unspendable_amount": 221.02402994, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 4638.83503236, "coinbase": 3.57028491, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 4638.38972561, "unspendable": 0.00002184, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00002184, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 896993 { "avgfee": 13460, "avgfeerate": 44, "avgtxsize": 432, "blockhash": "00000000000000000001e891bf767b0c93e452677ec659773a61761e30825cc7", "feerate_percentiles": [ 28, 31, 34, 38, 73 ], "height": 896993, "ins": 6781, "maxfee": 9747300, "maxfeerate": 1378, "maxtxsize": 141378, "medianfee": 8928, "mediantime": 1747414592, "mediantxsize": 388, "minfee": 112, "minfeerate": 1, "mintxsize": 150, "outs": 13740, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1372652, "swtotal_weight": 3763535, "swtxs": 3179, "time": 1747418594, "total_out": 463838974745, "total_size": 1429731, "total_weight": 3991851, "totalfee": 44528491, "txs": 3309, "utxo_increase": 6959, "utxo_size_inc": 532422, "utxo_increase_actual": 5287, "utxo_size_inc_actual": 407220 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 360736404, "totalbytessent": 804432418, "timemillis": 1747418620735, "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 v29.99.0-92b05c17b147 - server 70016/Satoshi:29.99.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 33 2 35 out 10 0 10 2 total 43 2 45 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 63469, "ipv6": 0, "onion": 0, "i2p": 0, "cjdns": 0, "total": 63469 } } $ halving.sh 896993 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=896993 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1747418594 This is average time to mine a block (1747418594-1231006505)/896993 bts=575.7140950775590472177071 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Wed Mar 1 07:01:20 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 897798 predicted to happen at this time: Thu May 22 02:47:23 UTC 2025 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 444. The next fortnight happens in block 897120 and probably around this time: Sat May 17 14:21:49 UTC 2025 ### 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 0e4b6e8a93b962ee 3b2a050f0536d99c7f3f669085cdf809003d6e6e629cd72f090f63fde91e5feb 051ed1309233d6d4 b1ebd44295d36017d844074d02ff0db216ee3dbfca73d8ce4bddb9f3f10d0e99 fb3293e444cf06aa 113c9be4a042deff182ace2197b429a14a138a8fbee5a9784446faec35ea9c16 ed144ad6efbce128 f0d5f833cca5ee4f585f5dc467ece2e7d242a5b87bc5e344b1a7f7d26b96a1d7 3ea1e8fd7458a1c8 1aea78928f6bbe7adf3446fa251d077b3bdfe13a81968e89ec0110499fd5ee14 2cfa635dc129e27c 563334189277c1afda6d43fefd61a9e93debc1415e27701c3291e16598293d8b 38c4678eae26b01e d64e17b91a7dee0302c1341d573f2090b9c7f7e364d237e14c10503868dfa940 5b1d7155889ca866 588a81093457f52495190801a5af7f765b3b6d6f9ef05852dec4e8abe9ba1847 a671aca4e3ae30b9 8fc871ad63821a44f891bb03a9674d6ad206b74b1ff1bbb5930d5b8450aba186 0996d5c8cba8ebe4 cb2ba66f04dcc0295a4dfb1c9a3dc307d258f41b07ede3b3975756b8753a8cda c6356c19ffd682df 6f5e1ffd953768b2b8b1dd85725da4c652dcbede156a89bfd7110678d97b967f $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ___ ___ __ ( _ )/ _ \ / /_ / _ \ (_) | '_ \ | (_) \__, | (_) | \___/ /_/ \___/ ___ ___ _____ / _ \ / _ \___ / | (_) | (_) ||_ \ \__, |\__, |__) | /_/ /_/____/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. ...1 e891 bf76 7b.c 1f | | 2. 93e4 5267 7ec6 5977 2f | | 3. 3a61 761e 3.82 5cc7 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' ak: eae2 94