NAME¶

bitcoin-wallet - offline command-line tool for handling Bitcoin Core wallet files.

DESCRIPTION¶

Offline command-line tool for handling Bitcoin Core wallet files.

bitcoin-wallet is an offline tool for creating and interacting with Bitcoin Core wallet files. By default bitcoin-wallet will act on wallets in the default mainnet wallet directory in the datadir. To change the target wallet, use the -datadir, -wallet and -testnet/-regtest arguments.

OPTIONS¶

-?

Print this help message and exit

-datadir=<dir>

Specify data directory

-wallet=<wallet-name>

Specify wallet name

Debugging/Testing options:

-debug=<category>

Output debugging information (default: 0).

-printtoconsole

Send trace/debug info to console (default: 1 when no -debug is true, 0 otherwise).

Chain selection options:

-chain=<chain>

Use the chain <chain> (default: main). Allowed values: main, test, signet, regtest

-signet

Use the signet chain. Equivalent to -chain=signet. Note that the network is defined by the -signetchallenge parameter

-signetchallenge

Blocks must satisfy the given script to be considered valid (only for signet networks; defaults to the global default signet test network challenge)

-signetseednode

Specify a seed node for the signet network, in the hostname[:port] format, e.g. sig.net:1234 (may be used multiple times to specify multiple seed nodes; defaults to the global default signet test network seed node(s))

-testnet

Use the test chain. Equivalent to -chain=test.

Commands:

create

Create new wallet file

info

Get wallet info

salvage

Attempt to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet. Warning: 'salvage' is experimental.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2009-2020 The Bitcoin Core developers

Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit <https://bitcoincore.org/> for further information about the software. The source code is available from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin>.

This is experimental software. Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>