verifychain
verifychain ( checklevel nblocks )
Verifies blockchain database.
Argument #1 - checklevel
Type: numeric, optional, default=3, range=0-4
How thorough the block verification is:
- level 0 reads the blocks from disk
- level 1 verifies block validity
- level 2 verifies undo data
- level 3 checks disconnection of tip blocks
- level 4 tries to reconnect the blocks
- each level includes the checks of the previous levels
Argument #2 - nblocks
Type: numeric, optional, default=6, 0=all
The number of blocks to check.
Result
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| true|false | boolean | Verified or not |
Example usage (with RPC call)
BGL-cli verifychain
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "verifychain", "params": []}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8334/