Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.17.99

verifychain (0.17.99 RPC)

blockchain

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verifychain ( checklevel nblocks )

Verifies blockchain database.

Arguments

1. checklevel

numeric

optional

0-4

default=3

How thorough the block verification is.

2. nblocks

numeric

optional

default=6

0=all

The number of blocks to check.

Result

true|false

boolean

Verified or not

Examples

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/