Questions tagged [json-rpc]
A remote-procedure-call (RPC) interface provided by the Bitcoin Core wallet and it's companion software bitcoind. This RPC interface uses the Javascript Object Notation (JSON) serialization format for data and allows other software programs to interact with Bitcoin-Core.
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How to get total number of transactions from bitcoin core wallet using rpc
I'm trying to implement paginations using :
https://chainquery.com/bitcoin-api/listtransactions
I want to have reverse listing (oldest first), so I need to get total number of transaction returned ...
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LND describegraph and getnetworkinfo RPC response
The LND API documentation is here, but doesn't contain much information about what the responses to various calls mean. Can anyone explain what these responses are describing?
describegraph['edges']
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Can't connect to Bitcoin RPC on DigitalOcean server
I am running bitcoind on a DigitalOcean droplet with public IP address e.g. 1.1.1.1.
I would like to connect to it via RPC from another DigitalOcean droplet with public IP address e.g. 2.2.2.2.
Both ...
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Clarifying descendants/ancestors in error cases for too-long-mempool-chain
In practice I've seen two instances of the too-long-mempool-chain error when trying to send a transaction:
When there are too many unconfirmed transactions chained together:
"too many descendants ...
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Why is hosting a public bitcoind RPC node not more popular?
Seems like it would be a great way to expand the usability of Bitcoin, i.e. tell your friends to send their transactions to your node when they are not at home and then their client software only ...
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Is it real BTC or fake
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I received some BTC to my coinbase wallet after someone asked me to setup custom network using the below setting. I received the BTC but I couldn't transfer to any other wallet and the says ...
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need help with BTC transfer [duplicate]
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I received some BTC to my coinbase wallet after someone asked me to setup custom network using the below setting. I received the BTC but I couldn't transfer to any other wallet and the says ...
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More detailed historical trx info (fee, sat per byte, transferred value in trx, from, to) from electrumx server?
I run bitcoin full node and Electrumx server over it for getting historical data.
The methods that I frequently used were "blockchain.scripthash.get_history" and "blockchain.transaction....
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How to import a descriptor into a wallet?
I am trying to import a descriptor into a blank wallet but I get a JSON parsing error.
$ cli createwallet "test" false true "" false true
$ cli -rpcwallet=test importdescriptors '[{...
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Pull Bitcoin node data from external public nodes using JSON-RPC
I read couple of blogs and responses on hosting server to expose data using JSON-RPC but wanted to confirm if there is a way to query node data that I am not hosting (not connecting via P1P) using ...
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Multisig synchronization
I understand what the multisig wallets are but I need help understanding what exactly this script does:
https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/3882537
If I understand correctly, bitcoinds are bitcoin ...
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Bitcoin Core RPC for transactions of a new address without rescanning
I currently use the importaddress wallet RPC on Bitcoin Core to rescan the transaction history related to an address, which I then query using listtransactions. The address import takes about a hour ...
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How to import address with private key using importmulti
Problem. importmulti function has a lot of parameters and they are more difficult to understanding then the parameters of another Bitcoin RPC-API functions. Those who are not profi in modern ...
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RPC port 8332 not accessible after reboot
I have compiled and installed Bitcoin Core for the first time on Debian 11. Everything is up and running except that RPC port 8332 is not accessible after a reboot.
I get the following error running ...
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How to check if the block chain is up to date using bitcoind or json-rpc?
I read the full api method list and did not seem to find one.
I suppose there is no command specifically for that purpose, so what is the general way of doing this?
I would consider checking the ...
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Is there a cache mechanism with getrawtransaction?
I am currently working on a script that parses every BTC transaction from the beginning of the blockchain. My goal is to record summaries about each transaction in database, after synthesizing it.
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Bitcoin Core JSONRPC only accept requests with 0.0.0.0 in configs
I've lunched a Bitcoin Core server, and trying to connect to it via JSON-RPC.
This is my configuration settings:
server=1
rpcuser=admin
rpcpassword=password
rpcport=1234
rpcallowip=94.183.32.151
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How to use python rpc bitcoin to get the historical transaction record of a wallet address
How to use python rpc bitcoin to get the historical transaction record of a wallet address？My computer has synchronized all btc blocks, and txindex=1 has been configured. I want to try to get all the ...
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Get as many blocks as possible (stale, invalid, orphans)
I would like to download (and access) as much blocks as possible - including stale (extinct) blocks, orphans blocks and invalid blocks.
I have 0.11 official client.
My node is already synchronized but ...
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Obtaining historical stale blocks (chaintips) without old node
I'm attempting to do some research surrounding stale blocks within the Bitcoin network. From my understanding the best and really only way to obtain data for blocks that no longer exist in the main ...
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What does an orphaned tx look like via rpc? [closed]
I am testing with a currency forked from Pivx, but I see that bitcoind responds the same way here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=100824.0 with error code -5
If I send/receive a tx that then ...
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json-rpc via curl
I'am running Bitcoin-qt 0.8.6.1-beta on Qt 4.8.3 on windows 7 64.
below is my .conf content in %appdata%/bitcoin folder
rpcuser=bitcoinrpc
rpcpassword=ahything
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
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Retention and Accessibility of Disconnected Block and Transaction Data
In the context of a fully indexed, non-pruned Bitcoin Core node, I am exploring the duration and persistence of data related to disconnected blocks and their contained transactions due to a blockchain ...
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How to properly use the rpc command `listunspent` with `bitcore-lib` to create a transaction and get the transaction hash?
I am trying to use the rpc command listunspent to get all the UTXOs relevant to an address, and then I am trying to pass it to a transaction, using bitcore-lib.
Below is my code:
const Client = ...
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bitcoin rpc submitblock merkle root + raw tx (bad-txnmrklroot)
I wanted to test the submitblock rpc call in regtest but I seem to have some issues with the transactions I try to submit.
I have the following raw transactions:
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Will remote RPC under http expose the rpcusername and rpcpassword?
I'm confused with the examples of contacting bitcoin-cli as the examples always show sending user name:pass to http does this expose the name:pass?
This command: (I modified the help example from ...
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How to differentiate between BTC transactions and BRC20 transactions on a blockchain?
How to differentiate between BTC transactions and BRC20 transactions on a blockchain using the RCP interface?
This is a transaction record that contains BRC20 tokens which I found on a blockchain ...
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json_rpc_call solo mining with bitcoin running on Windows 7 for antminer
I setup BitcoinD on a Windows 7 PC. I configured for defaults except user/pw and rpcallowip=192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0. I have also tried 192.168.1.* with no luck.
I ultimately want to use an Antminer ...
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Are there public RPC node providers?
Are there public RPC node providers similar to Alchemy or Ankr, but for Bitcoin?
I just want to query basic block data and so on without having to manage my own full node. Security does not matter in ...
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How should I be using rpcbind and rpcallowip (bitcoin.conf)
I have been very confused on how to use the rpcbind and rpcallowip arguments for bitcoind. I have a bitcoin core node running on a raspberrypi and I want it to accept json-rpc calls from one of my ...
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Historical BTC data in JSON
As of now, the only API I can find that serves historical data is https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?timespan=60days&format=json. It only uses USD, and I need to serve non-USD data. My ...
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gettransaction RPC call does not include all balance changes
I am struggling with strange behavior of Bitcoin Core JSON-RPC call gettransaction. AFAIK, .details array of returned JSON should include all balance changes. If I send some amount to myself (...
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Access Kucoin OHLC data from API?
I need to access kucoin Open-high-low-close (OHLC) data from Kucoin API.
Looking in https://docs.kucoin.com/#get-trade-histories, I deduced that to access OHLC data (for instance BTC versus USDT, ...
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Where can I find RPC_User and RPC_Password for my Python Script?
I'm still struggling with this to obtain "rpc_user" and "rpc_password" this is the Python Script
I did try others to fill in others network like Blockdaemon.com but it does not ...
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Bitcoind could not locate RPC credentials but rpcuser and password are set
I installed bitoind and synced it. But when i'm trying to connect from my php website i getting:
Unable to connect to http://user:[email protected]:18332/.
Also when i'm trying to see ...
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Bitcoin Core RPC cURL - importdescriptors failing on loaded wallet
I am running the following request to load a wallet.
curl --location 'user:[email protected]:8332/wallet/test_multisig"' \
--header 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
--data '{
"jsonrpc&...
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Accessing RPC with RPC Auth or .cookie
Starting to interface with my btc node and I'm getting an RPC error 401 unoathorized error when running the below code. My RPC_Auth (rpcuser:rpcpassword) is correct. Is there something else I need ...
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No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
Trying to make a POST request with python from my desktop to my Bitcoin node running on raspberrypi. The two devices are running on the same network both connected by ethernet. I have been able to ...
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Confusion in testing RPC and curl
Please forgive the ignorance of a beginner.
I started a test network (bitcoind -testnet rpcuser=zz)
When I run bitcoin-cli -testnet getbestblockhash, everything works fine and I get the correct ...
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Where can I get a free RPC/public RPC to access Bitcoin mempool? [closed]
I'm interested in finding a reliable and free source that provides an RPC interface or an accessible API to retrieve information from the Bitcoin mempool. Any suggestions or recommendations would be ...
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Will bitcoind import private keys for multi-sig descriptor with watch-only flag set to true?
I am importing a "warm" multi-sig quorum into bitcoind using importmulti like so:
{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"curltest","method":"importmulti","params":[[{ "desc": "sh(multi(2,[eb2d2f9e/44'/1'/0']...
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Electrum load_wallet through json-rpcs does not accept "wallet" parameter
When calling load_wallet through json-rpc, using "wallet" param with a path to the wallet throws an error:
Commands.load_wallet() got an unexpected keyword argument 'wallet'
In the same ...
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In the basic Wallet based in QT, How can i get by RPC the stored addresses and labels?
this question is for you to ask about the QT wallet, in the section to send coins, there is an address window, and it has the list of the stored addresses we save along the time. So using RPC, do you ...
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Can't connect to Bitcoind remotely
I am running a Bitcoin Cash node on my server, and starting it like this:
start bitcoind.exe --server=1 --rpcuser=user --rpcpassword=password --rest=1 --rpcport=8332 --datadir=F:\Bitcoin --bind=10.1....
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What do the files in bitcoin/src/rpc/ do?
I know that RPC stands for Remote Procedure Call. Does Bitcoin Core do RPCs with other nodes on the network?
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Where can I find the list of all possible sendrawtransaction RPC error codes & messages?
Where can I find the list of all possible sendrawtransaction RPC error codes & messages?
Such as this:
{"code":-22,"message":"TX decode failed. Make sure the tx has at ...
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How to use `scantxoutset`
Looking to fetch the UTXOs for a given address and can't seem to find the correct command syntax.
Here is an implementation in bitcoin-core via javascript, but I also experience the same on bitcoin-...
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jsonRPCClient Error with php variables
I am trying to run the following code
$betamount=$_POST['bet'];
$litecoin->move($myusername,Admin,$betamount);
but it will not work. it does however work when i replace $betamount with an ...
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How to set up my Bitcoin RPC address once ive installed bitcoin core?
I have just set up bitcoin core on my macbook and im wondering how to get my http://login:password@ip:port address set up so i can interact with it. I am a complete noob to running a btc node so some ...
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timeout on transient error: Could not connect to the server 127.0.0.1:8332
I finished installing Bitcoin on a raspberry pi a couple days ago and have a problem. Everything worked fine yesterday (I was able to run bitcoin-cli commands just fine) but now whenever I run "...
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