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getnetworkhashps

getnetworkhashps ( nblocks height )

Returns the estimated network hashes per second based on the last n blocks. Pass in [blocks] to override # of blocks, -1 specifies since last difficulty change. Pass in [height] to estimate the network speed at the time when a certain block was found.

Arguments:

  1. nblocks (numeric, optional, default=120) The number of previous blocks to calculate estimate from, or -1 for blocks since last difficulty change.
  2. height (numeric, optional, default=-1) To estimate at the time of the given height.

Result: n (numeric) Hashes per second estimated

Examples:

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