signmessagewithprivkey (0.17.99 RPC)
blockchain
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signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "message"
Sign a message with the private key of an address
Arguments
1. "privkey" |
string required |
The private key to sign the message with. |
2. "message" |
string required |
The message to create a signature of. |
Result
"signature" |
string |
The signature of the message encoded in base 64 |
Examples
Create the signature
bitcoin-cli signmessagewithprivkey "privkey" "my message"
Verify the signature
bitcoin-cli verifymessage "1D1ZrZNe3JUo7ZycKEYQQiQAWd9y54F4XX" "signature" "my message"
As json rpc
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "signmessagewithprivkey", "params": ["privkey", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/