Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 0.17.99

dumpprivkey (0.17.99 RPC)

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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/