getchaintxstats

blockchain

v0.15.2

getchaintxstats ( nblocks blockhash )

Compute statistics about the total number and rate of transactions in the chain.

Arguments:
1. nblocks (numeric, optional) Size of the window in number of blocks (default: one month).
2. "blockhash" (string, optional) The hash of the block that ends the window.

Result:
{
"time": xxxxx, (numeric) The timestamp for the statistics in UNIX format.
"txcount": xxxxx, (numeric) The total number of transactions in the chain up to that point.
"txrate": x.xx, (numeric) The average rate of transactions per second in the window.
}

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli getchaintxstats
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getchaintxstats", "params": [2016] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/
Don't trust. Verify. Docs extracted from src/rpc/blockchain.cpp#L1469-L1487.