Foundations of Blockchain

Checking the blockchain

A node is completely set up in a private blockchain network after a successful connection to a blockchain is made. The local blockchain will be updated by accepting blocks from nodes in the network. The blockchain's status can be verified by issuing the following command through the command-line interface:

$ multichain-cli chain1 getinfo  

This command provides general information about the node, MultiChain, and several blockchain parameters in a key-value paired document, as follows:

    {"method":"getinfo","params":[],"id":1,"chain_name":"chain1"}
    
    {
      "version": "1.0.2",
      "nodeversion": 10002901,
      "protocolversion": 10009,
      "chainname": "chain1",
      "description": "MultiChain chain1",
      "protocol": "multichain",
     "port": ...