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rescanblockchain
================

``rescanblockchain ( start_height stop_height )``

Rescan the local blockchain for wallet related transactions.

Argument #1 - start_height
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

**Type:** numeric, optional, default=0

block height where the rescan should start

Argument #2 - stop_height
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

**Type:** numeric, optional

the last block height that should be scanned. If none is provided it will rescan up to the tip at return time of this call.

Result
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::

  {
    "start_height"     (numeric) The block height where the rescan started (the requested height or 0)
    "stop_height"      (numeric) The height of the last rescanned block. May be null in rare cases if there was a reorg and the call didn't scan any blocks because they were already scanned in the background.
  }

Examples
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.. highlight:: shell

::

  bitcoin-cli rescanblockchain 100000 120000

::

  curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "rescanblockchain", "params": [100000, 120000] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/