Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.16.2

getblockcount (0.16.2 RPC)

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getblockcount

Returns the number of blocks in the longest blockchain.

Result:
n    (numeric) The current block count

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/