Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.16.0

gettxoutsetinfo (0.16.0 RPC)

blockchain

control

generating

mining

network

rawtransactions

util

wallet

gettxoutsetinfo

Returns statistics about the unspent transaction output set.
Note this call may take some time.

Result:
{
  "height":n,     (numeric) The current block height (index)
  "bestblock": "hex",   (string) the best block hash hex
  "transactions": n,      (numeric) The number of transactions
  "txouts": n,            (numeric) The number of output transactions
  "bogosize": n,          (numeric) A meaningless metric for UTXO set size
  "hash_serialized_2": "hash", (string) The serialized hash
  "disk_size": n,         (numeric) The estimated size of the chainstate on disk
  "total_amount": x.xxx          (numeric) The total amount
}

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