getdifficulty RPC Method

Parameters

This method does not accept any parameters

Returns

result

The proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty

error

The error message, if any

Request

curl https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/ \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{"id": 1, "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "getdifficulty" }'

var myHeaders = new Headers();
myHeaders.append("Content-Type", "application/json");

var raw = JSON.stringify({
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getdifficulty"
});

var requestOptions = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: myHeaders,
  body: raw,
  redirect: 'follow'
};

fetch("https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/", requestOptions)
  .then(response => response.text())
  .then(result => console.log(result))
  .catch(error => console.log('error', error));

import requests
import json

url = "https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/"

payload = json.dumps({
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getdifficulty"
})
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

require "uri"
require "json"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://docs-demo.btc.quiknode.pro/")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request.body = JSON.dump({
  "id": 1,
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "method": "getdifficulty"
})

response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response

{
  "result": 123234387977050.9,
  "error": null,
  "id": null
}

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