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@m1ome m1ome commented Jan 17, 2018

Implementing: eth_blockNumber

Returns the number of most recent block.

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karalabe commented Jan 17, 2018

You can retrieve the latest header with ethclient.HeaderByNumber(nil, nil), from which you can just pull the block number. The ethclient API is not meant to be a Go counterpart of the RPC spec (which is quite badly designed), rather an intuitive was to interface Ethereum from Go.

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fjl commented Sep 10, 2020

We just added BlockNumber in #21500. It's nice to have a way to get the latest number quickly without fetching the entire header.

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