GROESTLCOIN-WALLET(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is the manual page for groestlcoin-wallet — that's the offline wallet tool that ships with Groestlcoin Core, version v29.0.0, bestie. it lives in the User Commands section and the whole vibe is "let me handle your wallet files for you." 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

groestlcoin-wallet [options] <command>

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so groestlcoin-wallet is the Groestlcoin Core utility, version v29.0.0, and honestly? it's giving extremely useful. 💅

it's an offline tool for creating and interacting with Groestlcoin Core wallet files. like, it does not need the network, it's just you and your wallet files, main character energy.

by default, groestlcoin-wallet will act on wallets in the default mainnet wallet directory inside the datadir. periodt.

and if you wanna point it at a different wallet? you change the target wallet with the -datadir, -wallet and (test)chain selection arguments. that's the whole trick, iykyk. 🎀

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🧚 OPTIONS 🧚

• -datadir=<dir> — specify the data directory, aka where your data lives.
• -descriptors — create a descriptors wallet. only for create, no cap.
• -dumpfile=<file name> — when you use it with dump, it writes the records out to this file. when you use it with createfromdump, it loads the records into a new wallet. dual purpose icon. 💫
• -format=<format> — the format of the wallet file to create. either "bdb" or "sqlite". only used with createfromdump.
• -help — print this help message and exit (also -h or -?, so you have options, literally).
• -legacy — create a legacy wallet. only for create.
• -version — print version and exit.
• -wallet=<wallet-name> — specify the wallet name.

🔧 Debugging/Testing options:

• -debug=<category> — output debugging information (default: 0).
• -printtoconsole — send trace/debug info to console (default: 1 when no -debug is true, 0 otherwise).
• -withinternalbdb — use the internal Berkeley DB parser when dumping a Berkeley DB wallet file (default: false).

🌈 Chain selection options:

• -chain=<chain> — use the chain <chain> (default: main). allowed values: main, test, testnet4, signet, regtest.
• -signet — use the signet chain. equivalent to -chain=signet. note that the network is defined by the -signetchallenge parameter. 👀
• -signetchallenge — blocks must satisfy the given script to be considered valid (only for signet networks; defaults to the global default signet test network challenge).
• -signetseednode — specify a seed node for the signet network, in the hostname[:port] format, e.g. sig.net:1234 (may be used multiple times to specify multiple seed nodes; defaults to the global default signet test network seed node(s)).
• -testnet — use the testnet3 chain. equivalent to -chain=test. ⚠️ support for testnet3 is deprecated and will be removed in an upcoming release. consider moving to testnet4 now by using -testnet4.
• -testnet4 — use the testnet4 chain. equivalent to -chain=testnet4.

👑 Commands:

• create — create new wallet file.
• createfromdump — create new wallet file from dumped records.
• dump — print out all of the wallet key-value records.
• info — get wallet info.
• salvage — attempt to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet. ⚠️ warning: salvage is experimental.

ok important heads up bestie: salvage is experimental, and testnet3 support is deprecated and getting yeeted in an upcoming release. moving to -testnet4 is the move. 💀

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

copyright (C) 2014-2025 The Groestlcoin Core developers copyright (C) 2009-2025 The Bitcoin Core developers

please contribute if you find Groestlcoin Core useful (and like, you should, it's iconic). visit <https://groestlcoin.org/> for further information about the software. the source code is available from <https://github.com/Groestlcoin/groestlcoin>. 🫶

this is experimental software. distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

groestlcoind(1), groestlcoin-cli(1), groestlcoin-tx(1), groestlcoin-wallet(1), groestlcoin-util(1), groestlcoin-qt(1) — the whole friend group, honestly. go say hi. 💜

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and that's the page!! 🌸 this was groestlcoin-wallet v29.0.0, dated April 2025, from the GROESTLCOIN-WALLET(1) manual. slay, go make some wallets, ily, bye 💖✨🎀