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rescanblockchain

rescanblockchain (“start_height”) (“stop_height”)

Rescan the local blockchain for wallet related transactions.

Arguments:

  1. “start_height” (numeric, optional) block height where the rescan should start
  2. “stop_height” (numeric, optional) the last block height that should be scanned

Result: { “start_height” (numeric) The block height where the rescan has started. If omitted, rescan started from the genesis block. “stop_height” (numeric) The height of the last rescanned block. If omitted, rescan stopped at the chain tip. }

Examples:

bitcoin-cli rescanblockchain 100000 120000 curl —user myusername —data-binary ’{“jsonrpc”: “1.0”, “id”:“curltest”, “method”: “rescanblockchain”, “params”: [100000, 120000] }’ -H ‘content-type: text/plain;’ http://127.0.0.1:8332/