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submitblock

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 (If the block was accepted): null (json null)

Result (Otherwise): “str” (string) According to BIP22

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/