Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.17.99

preciousblock (0.17.99 RPC)

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preciousblock "blockhash"

Treats a block as if it were received before others with the same work.

A later preciousblock call can override the effect of an earlier one.

The effects of preciousblock are not retained across restarts.

Arguments

1. "blockhash"

string

required

the hash of the block to mark as precious

Examples

Examples:

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