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pruneblockchain

`pruneblockchain` JSON-RPC command

pruneblockchain height

Arguments

1. height    (numeric, required) The block height to prune up to. May be set to a discrete height, or a unix timestamp
             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": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "pruneblockchain", "params": [1000] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Bitcoin Cash Node Daemon version v27.1.1-1ce1d89

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