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createmultisig (0.17.99 RPC)

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createmultisig nrequired ["key",...] ( "address_type" )

Creates a multi-signature address with n signature of m keys required. It returns a json object with the address and redeemScript.

Arguments

1. nrequired

numeric

required

The number of required signatures out of the n keys.

 
2. "keys"

string

required

A json array of hex-encoded public keys

 
     [
 
       "key"

string

The hex-encoded public key

 
       ,...
 
     ]
 
3. "address_type"

string

optional

The address type to use. Options are “legacy”, “p2sh-segwit”, and “bech32”. Default is legacy.

Result

{
 
  "address":"multisigaddress",

string

The value of the new multisig address.

 
  "redeemScript":"script"

string

The string value of the hex-encoded redemption script.

 
}

Examples

Create a multisig address from 2 public keys

bitcoin-cli createmultisig 2 "[\"03789ed0bb717d88f7d321a368d905e7430207ebbd82bd342cf11ae157a7ace5fd\",\"03dbc6764b8884a92e871274b87583e6d5c2a58819473e17e107ef3f6aa5a61626\"]"

As a json rpc call

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "createmultisig", "params": [2, "[\"03789ed0bb717d88f7d321a368d905e7430207ebbd82bd342cf11ae157a7ace5fd\",\"03dbc6764b8884a92e871274b87583e6d5c2a58819473e17e107ef3f6aa5a61626\"]"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/