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Bitcoin node : importprivkey does not import all getnewaddress previously created

Every address has its own private key; if you inport one key, you get access to that one address. If your goal is backing up an entire wallet, you should instead be using the dumpwallet and associated ...
Pieter Wuille's user avatar
2 votes

Bitcoin node : importprivkey does not import all getnewaddress previously created

A hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallet like Bitcoin core generates many private keys from one master private key. So far as I know dumpprivkey only dumps one of the generated child keys. The one for ...
RedGrittyBrick's user avatar
2 votes

Why is hosting a public bitcoind RPC node not more popular?

The Bitcoin Core RPC interface is a private interface not suitable to be exposed publicly or accessed by untrusted parties. On the other hand it is quite popular for people to host public or semi-...
Antoine Poinsot's user avatar
1 vote

How to replicated the 256 MiB memory "Bare Minimum" setup of `bitcoind` from bitcoin.org

256 MiB seems extremely low; I very much doubt that will work. Still, Bitcoin Core has documentation on how to run in low-memory environments: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/reduce-...
Pieter Wuille's user avatar
1 vote

What is the best way to restart bitcoind after a bitcoin.conf change (Ubuntu 23.10)

Bitcoin Core reads the bitcoin.conf file on every startup, so if you have it (properly) configured as a systemd service, restarting it that way will indeed make the configuration change take effect.
Vojtěch Strnad's user avatar

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