bitcoin-cli Wallet Commands

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∟bitcoin-cli Wallet Commands

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

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

1. Get summary information of my wallet. The balance should be 0 BTC.

C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet getwalletinfo
{
  "walletname": "wallet.dat",
  "walletversion": 139900,
  "balance": 0.00000000,
  "unconfirmed_balance": 0.00000000,
  "immature_balance": 0.00000000,
  "txcount": 0,
  "keypoololdest": 1518315169,
  "keypoolsize": 1000,
  "keypoolsize_hd_internal": 1000,
  "paytxfee": 0.00000000,
  "hdmasterkeyid": "dab..................................d28"
}

2. Get a new address for my wallet so I can give it to my friend to send me Bitcoin funds.

C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet getnewaddress

mp6mKbgWE25PyyX63zJ8SRibrKugHMkJDE

3. Get the private key that associated with this address. But I am not going to display the private key here, since it is the only proof of ownership of the address.

C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet 
   dumpprivkey mp6mKbgWE25PyyX63zJ8SRibrKugHMkJDE
   
cSr..............................................Q7U

4. Get another address for my wallet so I can give it to another friend to send me Bitcoin funds.

C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet getnewaddress

mrThGN62W4noVhUvWUqHXesaMLB79NCEbW

C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet 
   dumpprivkey mrThGN62W4noVhUvWUqHXesaMLB79NCEbW
   
cUu..............................................Ri1

It is recommended that you should use one address to receive one payment only. So each new payment, you can call the "bitcoin-cli getnewaddress" command to get a new address.