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submitblock (0.20.0 RPC)

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submitblock "hexdata" ( "dummy" )

Attempts to submit new block to network.
See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0022 for full specification.

Arguments:
1. hexdata    (string, required) the hex-encoded block data to submit
2. dummy      (string, optional, default=ignored) dummy value, for compatibility with BIP22. This value is ignored.

Result:
null    (json null) Returns JSON Null when valid, a string according to BIP22 otherwise

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