verifychain

v0.9.5

verifychain ( checklevel numblocks )

Verifies blockchain database.

Arguments:
1. checklevel (numeric, optional, 0-4, default=3) How thorough the block verification is.
2. numblocks (numeric, optional, default=288, 0=all) The number of blocks to check.

Result:
true|false (boolean) Verified or not

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli verifychain
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "verifychain", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/
Don't trust. Verify. Docs extracted from src/rpcblockchain.cpp#L408-L422.