Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.17.99

getblockcount (0.17.99 RPC)

blockchain

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util

wallet

getblockcount 

Returns the number of blocks in the longest blockchain.

Result

n

numeric

The current block count

Examples

Examples:

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