getdifficulty

Gives back the difficulty of the proof-of-work as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

Example Request and Result for getdifficulty method

In this section, we provide an illustrative example of a request made to retrieve details contents using the getdifficulty method. Additionally, we present the resulting response containing information about the difficulty of the proof-of-work.

Parameters

• none

The example in this section uses a non-existing project id.

Make sure you replace it with your Bitcoin mainnet or Bitcoin Testnet endpoint when issuing the API calls.

Don't have a project id? Here's a straightforward guide on how to obtain one!

Returns the difficulty of the proof-of-work

POST https://bitcoin-mainnet.blastapi.io/<project-id>

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
jsonrpc*	string	1.0
id*	string	bwarelabs
method*	string	getdifficulty
params*	array<string>	[]

200: OK Expand for a detailed response example

{
    "result": 75502165623893.72,
    "error": null,
    "id": "bwarelabs"
}

Curl Request example

curl --location 'https://bitcoin-mainnet.blastapi.io/<project-id>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "jsonrpc": "1.0",
    "id": "bwarelabs",
    "method": "getdifficulty",
    "params": []
}'