getdifficulty

blockchain

v0.13.1

getdifficulty

Returns the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

Result:
n.nnn (numeric) the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli getdifficulty
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getdifficulty", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/
Don't trust. Verify. Docs extracted from src/rpc/blockchain.cpp#L170-L181.