getchaintxstats - Bitcoin RPC

getchaintxstats ( nblocks blockhash )

Compute statistics about the total number and rate of transactions in the chain.

Arguments:
1. nblocks      (numeric, optional) Size of the window in number of blocks (default: one month).
2. "blockhash"  (string, optional) The hash of the block that ends the window.

Result:
{
  "time": xxxxx,                (numeric) The timestamp for the final block in the window in UNIX format.
  "txcount": xxxxx,             (numeric) The total number of transactions in the chain up to that point.
  "window_block_count": xxxxx,  (numeric) Size of the window in number of blocks.
  "window_tx_count": xxxxx,     (numeric) The number of transactions in the window. Only returned if "window_block_count" is > 0.
  "window_interval": xxxxx,     (numeric) The elapsed time in the window in seconds. Only returned if "window_block_count" is > 0.
  "txrate": x.xx,               (numeric) The average rate of transactions per second in the window. Only returned if "window_interval" is > 0.
}

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli getchaintxstats 
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getchaintxstats", "params": [2016] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

          

This is a website, created out of frustration with uncomplete and outdated Bitcoin Core RPC documentation online.

It was inspired by ChainQuery, which seems to be abandoned. These docs are even simplier, so they can be regenerated by anyone.

Made by @karel_3d; license of the docs is MIT (see bitcoin repo), license of the scripts and webpage is also MIT ((C) 2018 Karel Bilek) (github repo)

Bitcoin version: 0.16.0.

Note that the RPC is from a regtest node (for completeness), so it includes some additional calls that a regular node doesn't have.