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getdifficulty JSON-RPC command

getdifficulty

Returns the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

Result

n.nnn       (numeric) the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

Examples

> bitcoin-cli getdifficulty
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getdifficulty", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Bitcoin Cash Node Daemon version v25.0.0-626f737

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