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Last updated on January 1, 1970

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Method getblock Bitcoin (BTC)
connect with JSON-RPC protocol

getblock

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If verbosity is 0, returns a string that is serialized, hex-encoded datafor block hash.If verbosity is 1, returns an Object with information about block hash.If verbosity is 2, returns an Object with information about block hashand information about each transaction.

Parameters

blockhash - string, required

The block hash

verbosity - numeric, optional, default=1

0 for hex-encoded data, 1 for a json object, and 2 for json object with transaction data

Request

curl --location --request POST 'https://btc.getblock.io/mainnet/' \
--header 'x-api-key: YOUR-API-KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "getblock",
"params": ["000000000000000000046b9302e08c16ea186950f42a5498320ddd1bd7ab3428"],
"id" : "getblock.io"}'

Response

{
    "bits": "170cdf6f",
    "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000001b633a711a2334c78a29bb40",
    "confirmations": 1197,
    "difficulty": 21865558044610.55,
    "hash": "000000000000000000046b9302e08c16ea186950f42a5498320ddd1bd7ab3428",
    "height": 677119,
    "mediantime": 1617176373,
    "merkleroot": "d14c9f467c4bdd5135837696150ab5f52f3f5043de324ca4e5766b195b9f8f37",
    "nTx": 2815,
    "nextblockhash": "000000000000000000006d8e1eb870bd281b30ed621acf6b8d6af2a3c7ab61f1",
    "nonce": 3669423616,
    "previousblockhash": "0000000000000000000aec32aa6edda6c888e8d6a0183d9c976064f98430c2da",
    "size": 1350854,
    "strippedsize": 882816,
    "time": 1617180599,
    "tx": [
        "2cd23815f632a3fc8a5c191c9d4fb4d758d85af4599ecd0f7f55427ad682f142",
        "780791bb2d5a8ccda4b5a707967a8e15b412814852c58c77299e85579bb65587",
        "635d50c5be6d6aea70527237dce8b0d646b88970ba34384f2ef85eba37f9e604",
        "fa8b28b42f11aa86ff1bbe6acf67b8e2e497573bef07a8e2fd5de8d79f2df80c"
    ],
    "version": 1073733632,
    "versionHex": "3fffe000",
    "weight": 3999302
}