dumpprivkey (0.17.99 RPC)
blockchain
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dumpprivkey "address"
Reveals the private key corresponding to ‘address’. Then the importprivkey can be used with this output
Arguments
1. "address" |
string required |
The bitcoin address for the private key |
Result
"key" |
string |
The private key |
Examples
Examples:
bitcoin-cli dumpprivkey "myaddress"
bitcoin-cli importprivkey "mykey"
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "dumpprivkey", "params": ["myaddress"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/