getblockchaininfo

blockchain

v0.10.1

getblockchaininfo
Returns an object containing various state info regarding block chain processing.

Result:
{
  "chain": "xxxx",        (string) current network name as defined in BIP70 (main, test, regtest)
  "blocks": xxxxxx,         (numeric) the current number of blocks processed in the server
  "headers": xxxxxx,        (numeric) the current number of headers we have validated
  "bestblockhash": "...", (string) the hash of the currently best block
  "difficulty": xxxxxx,     (numeric) the current difficulty
  "verificationprogress": xxxx, (numeric) estimate of verification progress [0..1]
  "chainwork": "xxxx"     (string) total amount of work in active chain, in hexadecimal
}

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo 
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getblockchaininfo", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/