pruneblockchain (blockchain command)

Bitcoin Core 25.0 RPC

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/