Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.17.99

getbestblockhash (0.17.99 RPC)

blockchain

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util

wallet

getbestblockhash 

Returns the hash of the best (tip) block in the longest blockchain.

Result

"hex"

string

the block hash hex encoded

Examples

Examples:

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