How to check Bitcoind block chain download progress level

Question

I have installed bitcoind on ubuntu server, and when I run screen -x for btc it says error -10 blockchain is downloading.

How do I know the progress level? currently 125600 blocks are downloaded, but how many blocks yet to go? where do i check the blockchain download progress level? does it has capability to resume if the server is powered off?

score 14 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 07 '15 at 05:02

Do

cd /home/

then

nano block.sh

copy the code below and paste (right click if you use putty) to the script.

#!/bin/bash
while true ; do
    clear
    echo "Press enter to break loop. Script will loop every 3 seconds"
    echo "script by Nixsy 18th august 2013"
    echo "If loop freezes press CTRL+C"
    echo ""
    echo -e "    \033[31mdownloaded\e[0m/\033[32mavailable\e[0m"
    echo -e "    \033[31m"`bitcoin-cli getblockcount 2>&1`"\e[0m"/"\033[32m"`wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null`"\e[0m"
    read -t 3 -n 3 && break
done

When you have copied the text to nano hold CTRL+X and then press Y to save.

In terminal type or copy from below followed by the enter key.

chmod +x block.sh

to start the script type.

./block.sh

This is just a little edit of the script from Lohoris, It will clear the screen then loop the script every 3 seconds until a key press.

Credit to Lohoris for the original script.

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 09 '19 at 09:30

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As of 2019, you can use the following script

echo `bitcoin-cli getblockcount 2>&1`/`wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null`

edited Sep 09 '19 at 09:30

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answered May 13 '13 at 14:00

o0'.

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Using Bitcoin Core Daemon v0.14.0 Error: There is no RPC client functionality in bitcoind anymore. Use the bitcoin-cli utility instead./463021
Simply replace "bitcoind" with "bitcoin-cli" to see progress.
– Matt Jensen Apr 22 '17 at 15:03

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 04:15

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I just installed bitcoind on an RPi and wanted to do this exact thing. Thought I'd post what worked for me:

$ bitcoin-cli getblockcount
7437

Block height is 366678 at the time of this post...long way to go

answered Jul 24 '15 at 04:15

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score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 20:16

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I wanted a nicer output.

Based off @o0'. answer ...

BC_CURRENT=`./bitcoin-cli getblockcount 2>&1`; BC_HEIGHT=`wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null`; perl -E "say sprintf('Block %s of %s (%.2f%%)', $BC_CURRENT, $BC_HEIGHT, ($BC_CURRENT/$BC_HEIGHT)*100)";

Outputs ...

Block 360693 of 471139 (76.56%)

answered Jun 13 '17 at 20:16

farinspace

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Nice! Love the output. – raidfive Jul 31 '17 at 00:25

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered May 21 '19 at 15:56

tail -f .bitcoin/debug.log

You will see the progress % in the end of every line.

2019-05-21T15:53:22Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000007463022a75f47fbce4832d885cccfddc66b9ae6d332888f825d height=181720 version=0x00000001 log2_work=68.184645 tx=3482689 date='2012-05-26T22:08:18Z' progress=0.008422 cache=256.7MiB(1838887txo)

Here, in case you did not find it above:

... progress=0.008422 ...

Julien Four · Answer 6 · 2020-03-22T17:13:25.717

here a bash script for see the live progress

create a file nano [nom fichier] and copy the code below
run script with bash [nom fichier]
stop script by type on your keyboard

Script :

sleepTime=4 #set time between updates

blocksPris=$(bitcoin-cli getblockcount)
blocksTotal=$(wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null)
pourcentage=$(((blocksPris*100)/blocksTotal))
input=""

tput smcup
clear
\e[25l ou tput civis
stty -echo
tput civis

while ["$input" -eq ""]
do
        echo -en "\e[1A\e[0K\r"

        echo "- $blocksPris/$blocksTotal - [$pourcentage%]"
        i=1
        echo -e "\e[47m \e[42m\c"
        while [ "$i" -lt "$pourcentage" ]
        do
                echo -e "_\c"
                i=$(( $i + 1))
        done
        echo -e "\e[41m\c"
        i=1
        while [ "$i" -lt "$((100-pourcentage))" ]
        do
                echo -e "_\c"
                i=$(( $i + 1))
        done
        echo -e "\e[47m \e[49m\c"

        sleep $sleepTime
        read -t 0.25 -N 1 input

        blocksPris=$(bitcoin-cli getblockcount)
        blocksTotal=$(wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null)
        pourcentage=$(((blocksPris*100)/blocksTotal))
done

tput cnorm
stty echo
tput sgr0
tput rmcup

Result:

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered May 13 '13 at 09:09

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You can see the current total amount of blocks on public block chain browsers:

answered May 13 '13 at 09:09

Steven Roose

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SMJ · Answer 8 · 2018-03-07T12:12:54.507

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If you have bitcoin cli installed. The below command will help.

echo `bitcoin-cli getblockcount 2>&1`/`wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null`

Sample output

365320/512421

This is slight improvement of above answer. But it returned Error: Command line contains unexpected token 'getblockcount', see bitcoind -h for a list of options./512421 in my case. Hope it helps someone.

edited Mar 07 '18 at 12:12

answered Mar 07 '18 at 12:01

SMJ

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score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 07 '15 at 07:50

The easiest way is to run birtcoind getinfo, then compare the nHeight to a block explorer, which should give you a ratio of how completed it is. Keep in mind that earlier blocks sync fastest, so 50% of black may not be 50% of the time required to sync.

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