getchaintips

getchaintips ( count branchlen )

Return information about all known tips in the block tree, including the main chain as well as orphaned branches.

yerbas-cli getchaintips

Arguments

Argument	Type	Description
count	(numeric)	only show this much of latest tips
branchlen	(numeric)	only show tips that have equal or greater length of branch

Arguments:
1. count       (numeric, optional) only show this much of latest tips
2. branchlen   (numeric, optional) only show tips that have equal or greater length of branch

Output

Result	Type	Description
"height"	(numeric)	height of the chain tip

Result:
[
  {
    "height": xxxx,             (numeric) height of the chain tip
    "hash": "xxxx",             (string) block hash of the tip
    "difficulty" : x.xxx,       (numeric) The difficulty
    "chainwork" : "0000...1f3"  (string) Expected number of hashes required to produce the current chain (in hex)
    "branchlen": 0              (numeric) zero for main chain
    "forkpoint": "xxxx",        (string) same as "hash" for the main chain
    "status": "active"          (string) "active" for the main chain
  },
  {
    "height": xxxx,
    "hash": "xxxx",
    "difficulty" : x.xxx,
    "chainwork" : "0000...1f3"
    "branchlen": 1              (numeric) length of branch connecting the tip to the main chain
    "forkpoint": "xxxx",        (string) block hash of the last common block between this tip and the main chain
    "status": "xxxx"            (string) status of the chain (active, valid-fork, valid-headers, headers-only, invalid)
  }
]

Possible values for status:
1.  "invalid"               This branch contains at least one invalid block
2.  "headers-only"          Not all blocks for this branch are available, but the headers are valid
3.  "valid-headers"         All blocks are available for this branch, but they were never fully validated
4.  "valid-fork"            This branch is not part of the active chain, but is fully validated
5.  "active"                This is the tip of the active main chain, which is certainly valid

Examples

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getchaintips", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:9998/