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Uncomplicate btcblock alias and fix 301 error
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@ -45,15 +45,13 @@ You can do this by looking at a blocknet explorer, such as [the Blockcypher Test
If you'd like an alias to look at everything at once, the following currently works for Testnet, but may disappear at some time in the future:
```
$ cat >> ~/.bash_profile << EOF
alias btcblock="echo \\\`bitcoin-cli -testnet getblockcount 2>&1\\\`/\\\`wget -O - https://blockstream.info/testnet/api/blocks/tip/height 2> /dev/null | cut -d : -f2 | rev | cut -c 1- | rev\\\`"
EOF
$ echo "alias btcblock='echo \$(bitcoin-cli -testnet getblockcount)/\$(curl -s https://blockstream.info/testnet/api/blocks/tip/height)'" >> .bash_profile
$ source .bash_profile
$ btcblock
1804372/1804372
```
> :link: **TESTNET vs MAINNET:** Remember that this tutorial generally assumes that you are using testnet. If you're using the mainnet instead, you can retrieve the current block height with: `wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null`. You can replace the latter half of the `btcblock` alias (after `/`) with that.
> :link: **TESTNET vs MAINNET:** Remember that this tutorial generally assumes that you are using testnet. If you're using the mainnet instead, you can retrieve the current block height with: `curl -s https://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount`. You can replace the latter half of the `btcblock` alias (after `/\$(`) with that.
If you're not up-to-date, but your `getblockcount` is increasing, no problem. Total download time can take from an hour to several hours, depending on your setup.