📜 Get latest Bitcoin block

Code samples

GET /api/v1/btc/block/last

Returns the most recent block from the Bitcoin blockchain using getbestblockhash followed by getblock with verbosity 2.

Example responses

200 Response

{
  "hash": "string",
  "confirmations": 0,
  "height": 0,
  "version": 0,
  "versionHex": "string",
  "merkleroot": "string",
  "time": 0,
  "mediantime": 0,
  "nonce": 0,
  "bits": "string",
  "difficulty": 0.1,
  "chainwork": "string",
  "nTx": 0,
  "strippedsize": 0,
  "size": 0,
  "weight": 0,
  "previousblockhash": "string",
  "nextblockhash": "string",
  "tx": [
    "string"
  ]
}

🔁 Responses

Status	Meaning	Description	Schema
200	OK	Latest Bitcoin block	Inline
500	Internal Server Error	Could not connect to BTC node	None

🔄 Response Schema

Status Code 200

Name	Type	Required	Restrictions	Description
» hash	string	false	none	Hash of the block.
» confirmations	integer(int64)	false	none	Number of confirmations for the block.
» height	integer(int64)	false	none	Block height.
» version	integer	false	none	Block version.
» versionHex	string	false	none	none
» merkleroot	string	false	none	Merkle root of the block's transactions.
» time	integer(int64)	false	none	Block time in seconds since Unix epoch.
» mediantime	integer(int64)	false	none	none
» nonce	integer(int64)	false	none	none
» bits	string	false	none	none
» difficulty	number(double)	false	none	none
» chainwork	string	false	none	none
» nTx	integer(int64)	false	none	Number of transactions in the block.
» strippedsize	integer(int64)	false	none	none
» size	integer(int64)	false	none	none
» weight	integer(int64)	false	none	none
» previousblockhash	string¦null	false	none	none
» nextblockhash	string¦null	false	none	none
» tx	array	false	none	Transactions included in the block. When verbosity=2, this is an array of full transaction objects; otherwise it may be an array of transaction IDs.