bitcoin-cli Transaction Commands

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∟bitcoin-cli Transaction Commands

This section describes transaction related 'bitcoin-cli' commands.

If you want to learn the structure of Bitcoin transactions, you can play with the "bitcoin-cli" transaction commands as shown below.

1. Get the hash of the block at a given height.

C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet getblockhash 100000
00000000009e2958c15ff9290d571bf9459e93b19765c6801ddeccadbb160a1e

2. Get transaction IDs from a given block.

C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet
   getblock 00000000009e2958c15ff9290d571bf9459e93b19765c6801ddeccadbb160a1e

{
  "hash": "00000000009e2958c15ff9290d571bf9459e93b19765c6801ddeccadbb160a1e",
  "confirmations": 51096,
  "strippedsize": 221,
  "size": 221,
  "weight": 884,
  "height": 100000,
  "version": 2,
  "versionHex": "00000002",
  "merkleroot": 
     "d574f343976d8e70d91cb278d21044dd8a396019e6db70755a0a50e4783dba38",
  "tx": [
    "d574f343976d8e70d91cb278d21044dd8a396019e6db70755a0a50e4783dba38"
  ],
  ...
}

3. Get details of a given transaction.

C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet getrawtransaction
   d574f343976d8e70d91cb278d21044dd8a396019e6db70755a0a50e4783dba38 1
   
{
  "txid": "d574f343976d8e70d91cb278d21044dd8a396019e6db70755a0a50e4783dba38",
  "hash": "d574f343976d8e70d91cb278d21044dd8a396019e6db70755a0a50e4783dba38",
  "version": 1,
  "size": 140,
  "vsize": 140,
  "locktime": 0,
  "vin": [
    {
      "coinbase": 
         "03a08601000427f1001c046a510100522cfabe6d6d000000000000000000006869
2066726f6d20706f6f6c7365727665726aac1eeeed88",
      "sequence": 4294967295
    }
  ],
  "vout": [
    {
      "value": 50.00000000,
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": {
        "asm": "OP_DUP OP_HASH160 912e2b234f941f30b18afbb4fa46171214bf66c8 
           OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG",
        "hex": "76a914912e2b234f941f30b18afbb4fa46171214bf66c888ac",
        "reqSigs": 1,
        "type": "pubkeyhash",
        "addresses": [
          "mtkbaiLiUH3fvGJeSzuN3kUgmJzqinLejJ"
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "hex": "010000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000ffffffff3703a08601000427f1001c046a510100522cfabe6d6d0000000000000000
000068692066726f6d20706f6f6c7365727665726aac1eeeed88ffffffff0100f2052a010000
001976a914912e2b234f941f30b18afbb4fa46171214bf66c888ac00000000",
  "blockhash": 
     "00000000009e2958c15ff9290d571bf9459e93b19765c6801ddeccadbb160a1e",
  "confirmations": 51096,
  "time": 1376123972,
  "blocktime": 1376123972
}