Questions tagged [bitcoin-cli]
The Bitcoin-Core wallet provides a Command-LIne-Interface (CLI) that can be used to retrieve information from the wallet or to perform certain actions.
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What can I expirement with BitcoinCore on my own?
I have a simple faculty assignment where I have to do some experiments with transactions or experiment with the Bitcoin protocol or maybe with wallet code. Work on that assignment shouldn't last more ...
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How do I get the private key of an address in descriptor wallets? How to dumpprivkey?
When I run dumpprivkey from Bitcoin Core 0.21.1. I get the following error message:
error code: -4
error message:
This type of wallet does not support this command
I came across achow's explanation ...
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What is the proper way to import a wallet from a file after removing it completely
Just wanted to ask a question about "importwallet" bitcoin-cli command.
After starting my bitcoind daemon, created a wallet, protected with a passphrase and made a backup to a file:
bitcoin-...
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Can a BIP39 12-word mnemonic be used to restore a wallet through bitcoin-cli?
I could not find documentation on using a 12-word BIP39 Mnemonic to restore a wallet through bitcoin-cli. It seems that importprivkey might be the right RPC call but when I provide the 12 words, it ...
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Using importmulti with internal set to true does not add any change keys. What am I doing wrong?
First I call:
curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "createwallet", "params":["ColdWallet", true] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://user:[email protected]:18332/
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How to generate SegWit address
How do I generate a SegWit address using Bitcoin Core CLI? Also will I be able to redeem those outputs and send them to a "legacy" address? If so, will this second transaction be accepted by older, ...
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How to check if an output has been spent?
Using an rpc client (e.g. bitcoin-cli), for a given transaction and index of an output of it, how can I tell if the output is currently an utxo, or if it has already been spent?
In the latter case, I'...
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Why does importmulti not support zpub and ypub?
As far as I can tell importmulti does not work with zpub/ypub.
Why not?
FWIW I prefer only to deal with xpubs, but I am curious.
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How do I create a taproot multisig address requiring 21 of 210 keys to spend?
I understand that prior to taproot activation, m-of-n multisig addresses had an "n" max limit of 20 keys. I also saw the 998/999 tapscript multisig transaction that recently caused issues ...
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-fallbackfee option in sendtoaddress
I'm trying to send some bitcoins using bitcoin-cli API, but bitcoin core tells me that Fallbackfee is disabled. How can I set a value for fallbackfee?
I've tried to specify it like
bitcoin-cli ...
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What does score tell me in getnetworkinfo?
Using bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo;
Or, going into Help>Debug>Console in bitcoin-qt and typing getnetworkinfo;
What does localaddresses:score tell me?
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Create Custom script from bitcoind
I'm able to create multisig with bitcoin-cli with addmultisigaddress
bitcoin-cli addmultisigaddress 2 '["'$ADDR_MITT_1'","'$ADDR_MITT_2'","'$ADDR_MITT_3'"]'
But How can I add extra OP like CLTV or ...
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How to calculate a bitcoin transaction hash of a coinbase transaction in 2022?
According to all internet sources i have found, the hash/ID of a transaction is the result of the double_sha256 algorithm that takes all raw data of the transaction. I tried to calculate it in Python ...
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regtest method not found
I have alredy looked at a lot of other similar questions here but they didn't involve my case or the solutions provided did not work for me. I'm trying to work in regtest mode and I'm using bitcoin ...
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Is it possible to read every transaction my node relays?
I'd like to add every valid transaction my node receives to my own database.
At the moment, I'm using getrawmempool every second to find new transactions, and then getting the data for them using ...
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bitcoin-cli not found on OSX
I have a Qt testnet3 node synched and running on my mac. In the terminal, when simply trying:
$ bitcoin-cli getinfo
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$ ./bitcoin-cli getinfo
I get:
-bash: bitcoin-cli: command not found
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Can you list receiving addresses in bitcoin-cli?
In bitcoin-qt, there are interfaces for seeing "receiving addresses" which have been generated in the past. I don't see any way to do that in bitcoin-cli.
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How to sign bitcoin transaction with 'bitcoind' and non-bitcoind-wallet private key?
I want to create and sign bitcoin transaction using only 'bitcoind' and 'bitcoin-cli'.
I can create a transaction using createrawtransaction RPC API, but signing it using 'signrawtransaction' fails.
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How to detect a fork with bitcoin-cli?
I'm keeping a simple log of blocks, and storing them in an array. When a new block arrives, I add it to the array.
Let's say this is my block chain array:
E <- tip
D
C
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What is better, pre-existing Bitcoin-core API bindings for python or custom wrapper functions
How advisable is using the following code to query the bitcoin core as compared to using some python RPC library.
import os
btc_prefix = 'bitcoin-cli '
def getblockcount(btc_prefix):
print("in ...
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64: too-long-mempool-chain
I am using bitcoind json rpc api to send bitcoin to multiple bitcoin addresses. I am using sendrawtransaction. When i have 24 unconfirmed payments sent from my account, i can't send anymore because i ...
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bitcoin-cli could not locate RPC credentials
I'm running a bitcoind 0.16 and it seem working, blockchain in sync etc..
I've used the "new" rpcauth, which is non deprecated so kind of referennce as explained here: https://github.com/bitcoin/...
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How to make a taproot transaction with bitcoin-cli?
Can you give a simple step-by-step example for a taproot transaction with bitcoin-cli on Testnet?
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running live and test node simultaneously
it took me 4 days to fully synchronize my node, but its finally running and i can create wallets etc..
I wanted to experiment with some transactions on testnet, so need to either change my config or ...
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How to get info for public address from bitcoin-cli + local db? (Can it be done without creating a wallet?)
I just started running my own full node. IBD is finished, and I'm now learning how to use bitcoin-cli.
First I would like to extract all the available information for one or more public addresses ...
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Why 'bitcoin-cli getreceivedbyaddress ...' always returns 0?
I've already synchronized about 400.000 blocks, but every time I'm trying to get balance for specific address, e.g. first coinbase address - link:
$ bitcoin-cli getreceivedbyaddress ...
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How much memory(RAM) is used by the mem pool and UTXO pool
I know I can set -dbcache=<MB> when starting bitcoind.
Does this effect how much RAM is allocated for the UTXOPool or UTXOPool + mempool?
How can I know how much RAM does each database take in ...
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Bitcoin Core What default values should I pass for some positional RPC params in sendtoaddress
I am trying to use the sendtoaddress rpc method of bitcoin core. From the documentation I read that I can pass "estimate_mode" parameter to estimate a fee. However as I believe json rpc follows ...
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Bitcoin-cli 0.19.1 Wallet not Sending from Addresses with Closest Amount?
I have a weird issue that I thought was fixed a few years back with Bitcoin wallet to reduce fees. I guess not, or I am missing something...
My wallet received a transaction for the amount of 0....
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Question on getaccountaddress, getnewaddress, getAddressesByAccount
I would like to get some feedback. I am new to the bitcoin development and I don't want to misunderstand something important before I start designing the application. I am working on bitcoin online-...
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How to get "From" and "To" addresses from bitcoin transaction using the command line?
I am scanning the bitcoin blocks and looking for transactions that involve my list of addresses. This is more like a wallet hosting service. I need the "From" and "To" addresses ...
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Bitcoin curl no reply
Hi I have made a curl to my server but get no reply . What am a missing
rpcuser=rpcusername
rpcpassword=rpcpassword
rpcauth=rpcusername:generatedkey
daemon=1
server=1
rpcport=8332
rpcbind=0.0.0....
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Can somebody show me a working gettxoutproof / verifytxoutproof pair?
Can somebody please show me a working gettxoutproof / verifytxoutproof pair, I am looking for the input used on bitcoin-cli or console window in Bitcoin Core to make this happen, and the outputs.
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How to get total transactions on the network with RPC
I have seen no concrete answer to this question anywhere.
I assume it is possible to get the total number of successful transactions on the bitcoin network using bitcoin-cli command because most ...
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bitcoind and bitcoin-cli and bitcoin-qt
following the hackernoon for full node btc, https://hackernoon.com/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-installing-a-bitcoin-full-node-on-linux-2018-edition-cb8e384479ea
i have some small questions,
is there'...
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Why keys generated in Bitcoin Core mismatch that from online generators despite using the same seed?
I have the following problem in Bitcoin Core. With this command:
echo carpet begin bacon master draft fortune food cherry cage axis vault clown | \
bx mnemonic-to-seed | \
bx hd-new -v 70615956 | \
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When I use importmulti with an xprv it never imports the private keys. What am I doing wrong?
When I call:
bitcoin-cli getdescriptorinfo "pkh(tprv8iDvhA6eaMDbRuH3D2DTNuH6N6LvMTVrcv7z6sVxyyYvThSaCSa3i3qFVqUgVL4NbVkACxjx3KPWLoP5jvDU3i16hjTnzEFnZuqsnTJ5F4n/*)"
it returns:
{
"descriptor": "...
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Parse the output field of getrawtransaction to generate a common address hash
Consider the following coinbase transaction:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/d70ae1131d433b655d0faeae1db4efa15bb4138f1e38e60a53073a58ea1dcc34
How we can retrieve the recipient address, i.e. ...
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What exactly is the data required when creating a coinbase transaction? How do I insert the blocks height into the coinbase transaction?
Still trying to write a function to properly create a coinbase transaction and the only thing I can't seem to get a hold on is..... How to get the block height provided by getblocktemplate into the ...
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createrawtransaction and fundrawtransaction
I use createrawtransaction for create a rawtransaction with [] "zero inputs" and one output.
I use fundrawtransaction for populate rawtrasaction with inputs.
{"method":"createrawtransaction","params"...
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What is the best way to create a wallet with a blank keypool then add keys to it?
The scenario is this:
User has a cold storage wallet and will import their cold storage xpub into Bitcoin Core using getdescriptorinfo and importmulti. User wants to only use the keys associated with ...
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How do you import an xprv using descriptors and importmulti?
I have figured out how to import an xpub, but when i use getdescriptorinfo on an xprv:
getdescriptorinfo "wpkh(...
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