getdifficulty Returns the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty. Result: n (numeric) the proof-of-work difficulty as a multiple of the minimum difficulty. Examples: > 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/