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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/ ```

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