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Last updated on January 1, 1970

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Method eth_coinbase undefined ()
connect with WS protocol

eth_coinbase

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Returns the client coinbase address. The coinbase address is the accountto pay mining rewards to.To set a coinbase address, start Besu with the --miner-coinbase optionset to a valid Ethereum account address. You can get the Ethereumaccount address from a client such as MetaMask or Etherscan.

Parameters

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Request

wscat -c wss://bsc.getblock.io/YOUR-API-KEY/mainnet/ 
# wait for connection and send the request body 
{"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "eth_coinbase",
"params": [],
"id": "getblock.io"}

Response

{
    "error": {
        "code": -32000,
        "message": "etherbase must be explicitly specified"
    },
    "id": "getblock.io",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0"
}
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