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Bitcoin - Tatum API

Get Bitcoin blockchain information

/v3/bitcoin/info

1 credit per API call

Gets Bitcoin blockchain information. Obtains basic info like the testnet / mainnet version of the chain, the current block number and its hash.

get/v3/bitcoin/info

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.tatum.io
  • URL
    https://api.tatum.io/v3/bitcoin/info
  • Auth
    API key in header x-api-key

Response

OK

chainstring

Chain of the blockchain, main or test.

blocksnumber

Last block.

headersnumber

Last headers.

bestblockhashstring

Hash of the last block.

difficultynumber

Difficulty of the algorithm.

Example response

{
  "chain": "test",
  "blocks": 1579820,
  "headers": 1579820,
  "bestblockhash": "0000000000000106e4c03ca093ce0cf77e796ddff4f3cadc59ca6b0380e3eed4",
  "difficulty": 6522714.521250089
}

Changes

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