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getdifficulty
=============

``getdifficulty``

Returns the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

Result
~~~~~~

.. list-table::
   :header-rows: 1

   * - Name
     - Type
     - Description
   * - n.nnn
     - numeric
     - the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty.

Examples
~~~~~~~~


.. highlight:: shell

::

  bitcoin-cli getdifficulty

::

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