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pruneblockchain

pruneblockchain height

Arguments:

  1. height (numeric, required) The block height to prune up to. May be set to a discrete height, or to a UNIX epoch time to prune blocks whose block time is at least 2 hours older than the provided timestamp.

Result: n (numeric) Height of the last block pruned

Examples:

bitcoin-cli pruneblockchain 1000 curl —user myusername —data-binary ’{“jsonrpc”: “2.0”, “id”: “curltest”, “method”: “pruneblockchain”, “params”: [1000]}’ -H ‘content-type: application/json’ http://127.0.0.1:8332/