# on receiving block 970253 here $ date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ' 2026-10-06T23:38:45Z # as written in the block header 2026-10-06T23:38:27Z $ uptime # since last reboot 23:38:45 up 48 days, 13:54, 0 users, load average: 1.84, 1.52, 1.57 $ battery.sh 97%, Power Supply Online $ uname -smnr Linux singer 6.18.44-0-lts x86_64 $ grep ^MemAvailable /proc/meminfo MemAvailable: 1478484 kB $ du -h -d1 .bitcoin/ 12.6G .bitcoin/indexes 5.2G .bitcoin/signet 88.0M .bitcoin/wallets 97.7G .bitcoin/blocks 18.6M .bitcoin/regtest 10.6G .bitcoin/chainstate 8.0K .bitcoin/fees 126.4G .bitcoin/ $ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 911.4G 447.8G 462.6G 49% / $ bitcoind -version Bitcoin Core daemon version v32.0.0rc2 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 970253 $ BH=$(bitcoin-cli getblockhash 970253); echo $BH 00000000000000000000752c5a6ef787b87ae1b2c48ad14ddfc9c8e76af5effd $ bitcoin-cli getblockheader 00000000000000000000752c5a6ef787b87ae1b2c48ad14ddfc9c8e76af5effd { "hash": "00000000000000000000752c5a6ef787b87ae1b2c48ad14ddfc9c8e76af5effd", "confirmations": 1, "height": 970253, "version": 651517952, "versionHex": "26d56000", "merkleroot": "1a0a59de7c46779b9d26c97d567146580816588a0b3d69aa4f5cd35f0a40d5f0", "time": 1791329907, "mediantime": 1791329047, "nonce": 4275443366, "bits": "17021ef0", "target": "000000000000000000021ef00000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "difficulty": 132716002350731.3, "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000014d617a43763ec1bcf5454a70", "nTx": 7217, "previousblockhash": "00000000000000000000f93681a927fd9d116a6c62e72349e7a791b823dce91c" } $ echo $BH | tr 0 . | fold -w 4 | paste -d " " - - - - .... .... .... .... .... 752c 5a6e f787 b87a e1b2 c48a d14d dfc9 c8e7 6af5 effd $ : 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 970253 sf: effd $ : 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 . 970253 sk: effd b5 $ : 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 . 970253 ak: .6ec b5 $ : Following is the jointkode 970253 jk: effd .6ec b5 ### niceblack moved to the end $ bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo { "loaded": true, "size": 61072, "bytes": 38501280, "usage": 207088976, "total_fee": 0.05451935, "maxmempool": 300000000, "mempoolminfee": 0.00000100, "minrelaytxfee": 0.00000100, "incrementalrelayfee": 0.00000100, "unbroadcastcount": 0, "permitbaremultisig": true, "maxdatacarriersize": 100000, "limitclustercount": 64, "limitclustersize": 101000, "optimal": true } $ gmm.sh 141 ## Current epoch estimation is +2.32% ## 557 of 2016, i.e. 27%, 1459 to go ## Current and previous two in numbers: $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 9.720620221599672e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 969695 9.499394793503835e+20 $ bitcoin-cli getnetworkhashps 2016 967679 9.500046813447429e+20 $ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo muhash { "height": 970253, "bestblock": "00000000000000000000752c5a6ef787b87ae1b2c48ad14ddfc9c8e76af5effd", "txouts": 165039902, "bogosize": 12927954324, "muhash": "f2dda298cd2178410fbf3f2ead299e27590570c2ba44b369ea94abd125acbc0f", "total_amount": 20094313.62575681, "total_unspendable_amount": 230.12424319, "block_info": { "prevout_spent": 59.84857856, "coinbase": 3.12800630, "new_outputs_ex_coinbase": 59.84557226, "unspendable": 0.00000000, "unspendables": { "genesis_block": 0.00000000, "bip30": 0.00000000, "scripts": 0.00000000, "unclaimed_rewards": 0.00000000 } } } $ bitcoin-cli getblockstats 970253 { "avgfee": 41, "avgfeerate": 0, "avgtxsize": 215, "blockhash": "00000000000000000000752c5a6ef787b87ae1b2c48ad14ddfc9c8e76af5effd", "feerate_percentiles": [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ], "height": 970253, "ins": 7293, "maxfee": 3548, "maxfeerate": 7, "maxtxsize": 3790, "medianfee": 36, "mediantime": 1791329047, "mediantxsize": 221, "minfee": 10, "minfeerate": 0, "mintxsize": 67, "outs": 14452, "subsidy": 312500000, "swtotal_size": 1524098, "swtotal_weight": 3873128, "swtxs": 6901, "time": 1791329907, "total_out": 5984557226, "total_size": 1553770, "total_weight": 3991816, "totalfee": 300630, "txs": 7217, "utxo_increase": 7159, "utxo_size_inc": 501541, "utxo_increase_actual": -7, "utxo_size_inc_actual": -499 } $ bitcoin-cli getnettotals { "totalbytesrecv": 7222461399, "totalbytessent": 17112803785, "timemillis": 1791329925571, "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 v32.0.0rc2 - server 70017/Satoshi:32.0.0/ ipv4 npr total block in 12 2 14 out 10 0 10 2 total 22 2 24 Local services: witness, compact filters, network limited, p2p v2 Local addresses: n/a $ bitcoin-cli -addrinfo { "addresses_known": { "ipv4": 79154, "ipv6": 302, "onion": 1779, "i2p": 6, "cjdns": 0, "total": 81241 } } $ halving.sh 970253 ===================================== Bitcoin Block Halving prediction ===================================== bc=970253 gbt=1231006505 bbt=1791329907 This is average time to mine a block (1791329907-1231006505)/970253 bts=577.5017696397025933415373 Now let's multiply that by 1050000 which is the block number of next halving and get the prediction: Thu Mar 23 00:25:40 UTC 2028 ------------------------------------- Next palindrome will be 971179 predicted to happen at this time: Tue Oct 13 04:11:13 UTC 2026 ------------------------------------- Current mining epoch number is 481. The next fortnight happens in block 971712 and probably around this time: Fri Oct 16 17:41:22 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 5dbe9421f0a1a7db b2af1270ae4df62b9f1fc10233046f5dda209c93de73f250a9b48044e8181e7a 02ba210d5225a331 ab15adfaa62407dc8dda9711919fa7f29ffc8967f5aad68d738b30ae28bf5190 db9669d3c881f62d 7e23a412e2d94c58e80d542a6c8e93dd84b3a93d92e93acfbca00e48fb52a18f 15c5f5454f8d970a bd75a1f442c04c82e3c14834c5261a1eed5f060689acd450c7ab6c081ff715e8 1243b26b36d0dae6 bca6e71ddace5e78c2b6a244acfc3131dcd28a43a955f447ba2c84b550c40214 7eb01b8e6d252671 044a8bb7630de67d5b78dc33172f58e6ae780c0665ae00aac8b381961bb7fcd1 0d212e79ab6c16ab 9d5011439f042b5b3ce6cbc5fd5e32ca4e25f21a801459ce259b664b05348821 e423be1aac4303cf b1ed35521ce319dd33eb59f1d535c449f4eb8561710144e6ecfb7d76d379b58d 6d23897771bf3a46 0b6e8e0376e995368027c9550d79fa727f56e39ef41b01f21e6b1e7b8df8e56a c731c41316be7cda 0ba367fe1a40fe521c885df4e44dd1c586fb392a9c168ca8315f9d735619df0b acf4af8048009987 0137e5921d69643feadabbf2f9ccc5780665d6df3b1c60e04ca0891d54040f77 $ niceblack.sh $BH $BC ___ _____ ___ ____ ____ _____ / _ \___ / _ \ |___ \| ___|___ / | (_) | / / | | | __) |___ \ |_ \ \__, |/ /| |_| | / __/ ___) |__) | /_//_/ \___/ |_____|____/____/ ,----- .123 4567 89ab cdef -----, | | | .. .... .... .... .... .f | | 1. .... 752c 5a6e f787 1f | | 2. b87a e1b2 c48a d14d 2f | | 3. dfc9 c8e7 6af5 effd 3f | '=== ==== ==== ==== ==== ===' jk: effd .6ec b5