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Last updated on January 1, 1970

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Method getblockheader undefined ()
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getblockheader

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If verbose is false, returns a string that is serialized, hex-encodeddata for blockheader hash.If verbose is true, returns an Object with information about blockheaderhash.

Parameters

blockhash - string, required

The block hash

verbose - boolean, optional, default=true

true for a json object, false for the hex-encoded data

Request

curl --location --request POST 'https://dgb.getblock.io/mainnet/' 
--header 'x-api-key: YOUR-API-KEY' 
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' 
--data-raw '{"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "getblockheader",
"params": ["8aef53e812659444b72dfa021ccbfddfb795e04889788c8dee802113e186acf3", true],
"id": "getblock.io"}'

Response

{
    "error": null,
    "id": "getblock.io",
    "result": {
        "bits": "1b008d6d",
        "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c084ec5a1d70eff223bcc",
        "confirmations": 18540,
        "difficulty": 118627.3100400497,
        "hash": "8aef53e812659444b72dfa021ccbfddfb795e04889788c8dee802113e186acf3",
        "height": 13627174,
        "mediantime": 1631261365,
        "merkleroot": "cd3f02b4edcdac21fe0d2eba969e2fd5ab5a0de645d3599e9ea83467c005fa74",
        "nTx": 2,
        "nextblockhash": "19ff9b2a0471fcc2d8ad1e6788e0ef5aa5b055d0855d6a2e12accf0de8cc8d20",
        "nonce": 1413312706,
        "previousblockhash": "e4d334806799cd7de69800a5aae687ee934c5e6992269209f39d5440cb54b751",
        "time": 1631261485,
        "version": 536870914,
        "versionHex": "20000002"
    }
}
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