https://www.multichain.com/qa/tag/getchaintips Powered by Question2Answer https://www.multichain.com/qa/7676/multichain-getchaintips-details <p>Hi team,</p><p>Can you please help me understand the meaning of these status in my blockchain and if any implication for having such values.&nbsp;</p><p>I saw the meaning of each status using the help menu which got me scared and in my multichain I 've about 400 invalid blocks. Also I 've about 24k blocks in my setup, what's the status of them now.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Possible values for status:<br>1.&nbsp; "invalid"&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;This branch contains at least one invalid block<br>2.&nbsp; "headers-only"&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Not all blocks for this branch are available, but the headers are valid<br>3.&nbsp; "valid-headers"&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;All blocks are available for this branch, but they were never fully validated<br>4.&nbsp; "valid-fork"&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This branch is not part of the active chain, but is fully validated<br>5.&nbsp; "active"&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This is the tip of the active main chain, which is certainly valid</p><blockquote><p>[ec2-user@ip-172-31-22-144 ~]$ multichain-cli chain1 getchaintips | grep status | cut -d ":" -f2&nbsp; | sort -n | uniq -c<br>{"method":"getchaintips","params":[],"id":1,"chain_name":"chain1"}</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1&nbsp; "active"<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1&nbsp; "headers-only"<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; 395&nbsp; "invalid"<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;1091&nbsp; "valid-fork"<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;1062&nbsp; "valid-headers"</p></blockquote> https://www.multichain.com/qa/7676/multichain-getchaintips-details Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:45:41 +0000