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verifychain

verifychain ( checklevel nblocks )

Verifies blockchain database.

Arguments:

  1. checklevel (numeric, optional, 0-4, default=3) How thorough the block verification is.
  2. nblocks (numeric, optional, default=6, 0=all) The number of blocks to check.

Result: true|false (boolean) Verified or not

Examples:

bitcoin-cli verifychain curl —user myusername —data-binary ’{“jsonrpc”: “1.0”, “id”:“curltest”, “method”: “verifychain”, “params”: [] }’ -H ‘content-type: text/plain;’ http://127.0.0.1:8332/