Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.18.0

getdifficulty (0.18.0 RPC)

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getdifficulty

Returns the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

Result:
n.nnn       (numeric) the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

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