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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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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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 check if node is on TestNet or MainNet via `bitcoin-cli`?
Is there a way, by using bitcoin-cli using RPC querying, if the node I'm querying is running on MainNet or TestNet?
Thanks
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bitcoin-cli get all tx hashes for watch-only address
does bitcoin-cli have any functionality to get all tx hashes for a given address (ie the txs that either send or receive funds from the given address). listtransactions sounds like it should do what i ...
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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
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What are the hex and asm field values in the JSON decoded from a raw transactions?
I used the command line bitcoin-cli decoderawtransaction <hex-value> and got back a JSON output (see below). However, I noticed there are hex and asm fields that are themselves hex values (at ...
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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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bitcoin.rpc python library problem
I am working through Master Bitcoin. I got the bitcoin client up and running. I am now trying to access the client from python. In the example, there is a line that says from bitcoin.rpc import ...
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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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How to check if my node is fully sync'ed
Using bitcoin-cli, how do I check how sync'ed my full node is?
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Why are some Bitcoind commands comparatively slow?
For example, running bitcoin-cli getbalance <address> on an arbitrary, watch-only address takes around 6-7 seconds for a response. Is there any way to improve the response time?
How do API ...
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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.conf setting for CPFP - how can I enable longer 'chains' of unconfirmed transactions?
I often receive an -32700 'Insufficient Funds' error when attempting to create 'child pays for parent' (CPFP) transactions using unconfirmed change output. This can be problematic since it can prevent ...
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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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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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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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Testing pruning logic with bitcoind
I'd like to test pruning logic using bitcoind in regtest mode, however, given the nature of regtest, blocks are rather empty (if not fully). Is there any way of easily generating full blocks so the ...
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Bitcoin-tx sign/redeem p2sh transaction (Unable to sign input, invalid stack size (possibly missing key))
I'm seeking help in redeeming a p2sh transaction using the standard tools from bitcoin core, e.g., bitcoin-cli or using directly the RPC commands via curl would also be fine.
Creating the P2SH ...
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Why is my bitcoind daemon not listening on RPC port at 8332?
I have read a similar post which had no answer at this location. I am trying to use bitcoin-cli from a host that different from the host that runs bitcoind. I also would be happy with being able to ...
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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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Bitcoin Core coin control via RPC (CLI)
Bitcoin Core introduced nice Coin Control feature accessible via the GUI client. To my surprise though, I don't see any obvious way how to make use of Coin Control via RPC/bitcoin-cli.
How can I pick ...
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bitcoin-cli very slow to respond to RPC calls (Raspberry Pi)
Running Bitcoin 0.11 on Raspberry Pi 2 (Quad core 900MHz 1GB RAM, 128GB Flash Drive for blockchain, 8GB SD Card for OS and software).
Blockchain is fully synced, 13 connections.
In htop, I see I'm ...
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What is the key differences between bitcoin-qt, bitcoin-cli, bitcoind, bitcoin rpc, and daemon?
Can someone please give a brief explanation on these? I'm getting very confused with the differences, and every tutorial article I read uses these terms interchangeably (I'm trying to set up a pruned ...
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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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bitcoin-cli commands like createrawtransaction not working with json on command line
I am trying to create raw transaction using the createrawtransaction api on testnet using the Windows7 command line. I always get an "error parsing JSON":
C:\Users\amjad>bitcoin-cli -testnet ...
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Bitcoin-cli how to get balance of a wallet on different node?
I am making a bitcoin mobile application, and I an trying to get the balance of a wallet that is on the mobile phone, from a daemon that is running on a separate node. The mobile wallet is connected ...
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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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Is there a way to allow use of unconfirmed RBF outputs in transaction building?
Bitcoin Core seems to not consider unconfirmed outputs that are marked replaceable in input selection. Is there a way to override this protection and allow use anyway? The transaction is created using ...
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How to have my bitcoin-cli connect to an outside fullnode
I don't want to run a full node in my laptop. I rather want to install bitcoin-cli only and configure it to connect to an external full node. Is that possible?
If so, two questions:
where can I get ...
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How to find bitcoin balance via command line
I'm wondering how to find the balance a wallet for a full node on a command-line only linux box. bitcoin-cli doesn't seem to help here, and I'm not sure what else to try.
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What is the asm section of scriptSig
I am trying to understand the output from bitcoin-cli. The sample transaction's txid is 061959f1a3360d3781a870b2d43f73f7105b194b22f3765fcb9b8f545f9c8317, from block 222,222.
The asm section of ...
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How to spend an imported rawtr() descriptor with bitcoin-cli?
I created a transaction that creates a taproot output that can be spent using the private key (KEY) corresponding to the taproot output key. Then I imported the WIF formatted private key into Bitcoin ...
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Stopping bitcoind on mac
One of my kids while learning more about bitcoin started bitcoind on my mac. Now I am unable to stop it. In my activity monitor, it shows a process named "bitcoind". I have stopped that ...
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What are best practices around toggling between multiple wallets in bitcoind?
I've created a couple wallets on Core to experiment with and want to dedicate one wallet as a live one. What is the best way to move between those wallets inside the command line? When I toggle to a ...
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Is it possible to set RBF as always-on in bitcoind?
I can't seem to find any cli commands for this. Is it even possible? Or does RBF need to be opted into on a per transaction basis?
I would just like every transaction sent by my node to be RBF enabled....
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Method not found when I use bitcoin-cli to generate blocks under regtest mode [duplicate]
As the picture shows,I am really confuesd.
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How can I accept Bitcoin as a payment without a 3rd party gateway
I want to create a website where users can pay with Bitcoin. However I want to create my own payment gateway because I do not want to rely on services like BitPay. I want a unique BTC address for ...
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How to increase fee of existing transaction with bitcoin-cli
I have broadcast a trasnaction from my bitcoincli wallet using this command:
./bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress ADDRESSGOESHERE 0.1
The problem is, it has set the fee to a very low amount by default.
After ...
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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 is the field 'hash' necessary in a bitcoin transaction?
Using bitcoin-cli decoderawtransaction I see results like...
{
"txid": "d2183b3ea763f41a30ec5ba6fbf6e5f32e0ca6a5e8761249c533fe22190f71f1",
"hash": "...
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How to get more chain tips from getchaintips?
I've just restarted my node. When I run getchaintips, it only gives me 48 tips (the lowest being at a height of 402,609).
Does getchaintips only return a limited number of branch tips? If so, is it ...
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bitcoin-cli how to verify balance
I've read that addresses alone are a "confusing" way to think about "where" bitcoins "are". Nonetheless I was formerly (2018) able to correlate what I got from bitcoin-...
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Is there a way to disable a blockchain validation?
I installed Bitcoin Full Node on Raspberry pi 3b+. Blockchain sync is dead slow because of less CPU. I Guess blockchain validation is time/CPU consuming thing. Is there a way to disable the validation ...
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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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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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Why does getblocktemplate use priority for transaction selection?
I don't know how getblocktemplate works exactly, but it seems to include transactions based on priority.
Selecting transactions based on priority isn't the most profitable method for building a block ...
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Why does bitcoin-cli return strange version numbers for blocks?
I've been looking at the version numbers of blocks, but I'm getting strange results from bitcoin-cli getblock.
"version": 536870913
However, when I run the same command with the false option (to get ...
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