pruneblockchain

blockchain dangerous since 0.14.0

prunes the blockchain up to a specified height or timestamp.

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Not executable from the web. Would harm the node, the network, or expose secrets. Documentation only, never executable from the web.

Call from your own code

Replace $BITCOIN_RPC_USER / $BITCOIN_RPC_PASSWORD with credentials from your bitcoind's bitcoin.conf, and replace localhost:8332 with your node's RPC address. You can't run this RPC against our node, but you can run it against your own bitcoind.

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pruneblockchain height



Arguments:
1. height    (numeric, required) The block height to prune up to. May be set to a discrete height, or to a UNIX epoch time
             to prune blocks whose block time is at least 2 hours older than the provided timestamp.

Result:
n    (numeric) Height of the last block pruned

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli pruneblockchain 1000
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "pruneblockchain", "params": [1000]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

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