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getnewaddress (0.17.99 RPC)

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getnewaddress ( "label" "address_type" )

Returns a new Bitcoin address for receiving payments. If ‘label’ is specified, it is added to the address book so payments received with the address will be associated with ‘label’.

Arguments

1. "label"

string

optional

The label name for the address to be linked to. If not provided, the default label “” is used. It can also be set to the empty string “” to represent the default label. The label does not need to exist, it will be created if there is no label by the given name.

2. "address_type"

string

optional

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

Result

"address"

string

The new bitcoin address

Examples

Examples:

bitcoin-cli getnewaddress 
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getnewaddress", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/