getblockcount.rst

getblockcount

getblockcount

Returns the height of the most-work fully-validated chain.

The genesis block has height 0.

Result

Name	Type	Description
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/