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getmempoolancestors JSON-RPC command

getmempoolancestors "txid" ( verbose )

If txid is in the mempool, returns all in-mempool ancestors.

Arguments

1. "txid" (string, required) The transaction id (must be in mempool) 2. verbose (boolean, optional, default=false) True for a json object, false for array of transaction ids

Result (for verbose = false)

[ (json array of strings) "transactionid" (string) The transaction id of an in-mempool ancestor transaction ,... ]

Result (for verbose = true)

{ (json object) "transactionid" : { (json object) "size" : n, (numeric) transaction size. "time" : n, (numeric) local time transaction entered pool in seconds since 1 Jan 1970 GMT "fees" : { "base" : n, (numeric) transaction fee in BCH "modified" : n, (numeric) transaction fee with fee deltas used for mining priority in BCH } "depends" : [ (array) unconfirmed transactions used as inputs for this transaction "transactionid", (string) parent transaction id ... ] "spentby" : [ (array) unconfirmed transactions spending outputs from this transaction "transactionid", (string) child transaction id ... ] }, ... }

Examples

```

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

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