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eth

Ethereum

ETH

POST

GET

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Last updated on January 1, 1970

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Method eth_mining Ethereum (ETH)
connect with WS protocol

eth_mining

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Whether the client is actively mining new blocks. Besu pauses miningwhile the client synchronizes with the network regardless of commandsettings or methods called.

Parameters

-

Request

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

Response

{
    "id": "getblock.io",
    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
    "result": false
}
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