submitheader

mining dangerous since 0.18.0

decodes the given hexdata as a header and submits it as a candidate chain tip if valid.

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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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submitheader "hexdata"

Decode the given hexdata as a header and submit it as a candidate chain tip if valid.
Throws when the header is invalid.

Arguments:
1. hexdata    (string, required) the hex-encoded block header data

Result:
null    (json null) None

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