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submitheader

submitheader “hexdata”

Decode the given hexdata as a header and submit it as a candidate chain tip if valid. Throws when the header is invalid.

Arguments:

  1. hexdata (string, required) the hex-encoded block header data

Result: null (json null) None

Examples:

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