NAMECOIND(1)

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version 32.0 · 2 versions
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🎀 NAME

Okay bestie, this is the manual page for namecoind v32.0.0, aka the Namecoin Core daemon. Yes, the whole chaotic thing. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS

namecoind [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION

So the version line literally says Namecoin Core daemon version v32.0.0 bitcoind, and this daemon is a headless program that connects to the Bitcoin network to validate and relay transactions and blocks, and also to relay addresses. It's giving backbone of the Bitcoin network, fr fr.

Its RPC, REST and ZMQ services can provide various transaction, block and address-related services. There's also an optional wallet component that provides transaction services. You can use it in a headless environment or as part of a server setup. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -alertnotify=<cmd> — Run this command when an alert is raised. In cmd, %s gets replaced by the message.
  • -allowignoredconf — For backwards compatibility, treat an unused namecoin.conf file in the datadir as a warning, not an error.
  • -assumevalid=<hex> — If this block is in the chain, assume that it and its ancestors are valid and potentially skip their script verification (0 to verify all). Defaults: dc83cfa2c5609281abdb90be864e6dcef87d617786e317ac048be4b73192688c for mainnet, testnet3: bc66fc22b8a2988bdc519c4c6aa431bb57201e5102ad8b8272fcde2937b4d2f7, testnet4: 0000000021df65b91665a342e26ceb05e54826ad7d8fcd40316230058fa3b865, signet: 00000002a5e0ba0498f1e9f4591af0b66b63c654665efe65206fd0ae7bbaf923.
  • -blockfilterindex=<type> — Maintain an index of compact filters by block (default: 0, values: basic). If <type> is not supplied or if <type> = 1, indexes for all known types are enabled.
  • -blocknotify=<cmd> — Execute a command when the best block changes. In cmd, %s gets replaced by the block hash. This is not run for blocks connected during initial block download or reindexing.
  • -blockreconstructionextratxn=<n> — Extra transactions to keep in memory for compact block reconstructions (default: 100).
  • -blocksdir=<dir> — Specify the directory that holds the blocks subdirectory for *.dat files (default: <datadir>).
  • -blocksonly — Whether to reject transactions from network peers. This disables automatic broadcast and rebroadcast of transactions, unless the source peer has the 'forcerelay' permission. RPC transactions are not affected. (default: 0)
  • -blocksxor — Whether an XOR-key applies to blocksdir *.dat files. The created XOR-key will be zeros for an existing blocksdir or when -blocksxor=0 is set, and random for a freshly initialized blocksdir. (default: 1)
  • -coinstatsindex — Maintain the coinstats index used by the gettxoutsetinfo RPC (default: 0).
  • -conf=<file> — Specify path to a read-only configuration file. Relative paths will be prefixed by the datadir location (only useable from the command line, not the configuration file) (default: namecoin.conf).
  • -daemon — Run in the background as a daemon and accept commands (default: 0).
  • -daemonwait — Wait for initialization to be finished before exiting. This implies -daemon (default: 0).
  • -datadir=<dir> — Specify the data directory.
  • -dbcache=<n> — Maximum database cache size <n> MiB (minimum 4, default: 1024). Make sure you have enough RAM. In addition, unused memory allocated to the mempool is shared with this cache (see -maxmempool).
  • -debuglogfile=<file> — Specify location of the debug log file (default: debug.log). Relative paths will be prefixed by a net-specific datadir location. Pass -nodebuglogfile to disable writing the log to a file.
  • -help — Print this help message and exit (also -h or -?).
  • -includeconf=<file> — Specify an additional configuration file, relative to the -datadir path (only useable from the configuration file, not the command line).
  • -loadblock=<file> — Imports blocks from an external file on startup. Obfuscated blocks are not supported.
  • -maxmempool=<n> — Keep the transaction memory pool below <n> megabytes (default: 300).
  • -mempoolexpiry=<n> — Do not keep transactions in the mempool longer than <n> hours (default: 336).
  • -namehashindex — Maintain an index of name hashes to preimages (default: 0).
  • -namehistory — Keep track of the full name history (default: 0).
  • -par=<n> — Set the number of script verification threads (0 = auto, up to 15, <0 = leave that many cores free, default: 0).
  • -persistmempool — Whether to save the mempool on shutdown and load it on restart (default: 1).
  • -persistmempoolv1 — Whether a mempool.dat file created by -persistmempool or the savemempool RPC will be written in the legacy format (version 1) or the current format (version 2). This temporary option will be removed in the future. (default: 0)
  • -pid=<file> — Specify the pid file. Relative paths will be prefixed by a net-specific datadir location. (default: namecoind.pid)
  • -prevoutfetchthreads=<n> — Set the number of threads used to prefetch block input prevouts from the chainstate database (0 disables, up to 16, default: 8). Negative values are rejected.
  • -prune=<n> — Reduce storage requirements by enabling pruning (deleting) of old blocks. This allows the pruneblockchain RPC to be called to delete specific blocks and enables automatic pruning of old blocks if a target size in MiB is provided. This mode is incompatible with -txindex. Warning: reverting this setting requires re-downloading the entire blockchain. Wallets and indexes should be loaded at startup and kept active while pruning is enabled so they stay synchronized before old block data is deleted; wallets or indexes that fall behind pruned data may require a reindex. (default: 0 = disable pruning blocks, 1 = allow manual pruning via RPC, >=550 = automatically prune block files to stay under the specified target size in MiB)
  • -reindex — If enabled, wipe chain state and block index, and rebuild them from blk*.dat files on disk. Also wipe and rebuild other optional indexes that are active. If an assumeutxo snapshot was loaded, its chainstate will be wiped as well. The snapshot can then be reloaded via RPC.
  • -reindex-chainstate — If enabled, wipe chain state, and rebuild it from blk*.dat files on disk. If an assumeutxo snapshot was loaded, its chainstate will be wiped as well. The snapshot can then be reloaded via RPC.
  • -settings=<file> — Specify path to the dynamic settings data file. Can be disabled with -nosettings. The file is written at runtime and is not meant to be edited by users (use namecoin.conf instead for custom settings). Relative paths will be prefixed by the datadir location. (default: settings.json)
  • -shutdownnotify=<cmd> — Execute a command immediately before beginning shutdown. The need for shutdown may be urgent, so be careful not to delay it long. If the command doesn't require interaction with the server, consider having it fork into the background.
  • -startupnotify=<cmd> — Execute a command on startup.
  • -txindex — Maintain a full transaction index, used by the getrawtransaction rpc call (default: 0).
  • -txospenderindex — Maintain a transaction output spender index, used by the gettxspendingprevout rpc call (default: 0).
  • -version — Print version and exit.

🔌 Connection options

  • -addnode=<ip> — Add a node to connect to and attempt to keep the connection open (see the addnode RPC help for more info). This option can be specified multiple times to add multiple nodes; connections are limited to 8 at a time and are counted separately from the -maxconnections limit.
  • -asmap=<file> — Specify the asn mapping used for bucketing of the peers. Relative paths will be prefixed by the net-specific datadir location. If a bool arg is given (-asmap or -asmap=1), the embedded mapping data in the binary will be used.
  • -bantime=<n> — Default duration (in seconds) of manually configured bans (default: 86400).
  • -bind=<addr>[:<port>][=onion] — Bind to the given address and always listen on it (default: 0.0.0.0). Use [host]:port notation for IPv6. Append =onion to tag any incoming connections to that address and port as incoming Tor connections. Network defaults: 127.0.0.1:8335=onion, testnet3: 127.0.0.1:18335=onion, testnet4: 127.0.0.1:48334=onion, signet: 127.0.0.1:38335=onion, regtest: 127.0.0.1:18445=onion.
  • -cjdnsreachable — If set, then this host is configured for CJDNS: connecting to fc00::/8 addresses would lead us to the CJDNS network, see doc/cjdns.md (default: 0).
  • -connect=<ip> — Connect only to the specified node; -noconnect disables automatic connections. The rules for this peer are the same as for -addnode. This option can be specified multiple times to connect to multiple nodes.
  • -discover — Discover own IP addresses (default: 1 when listening and no -externalip or -proxy).
  • -dns — Allow DNS lookups for -addnode, -seednode and -connect (default: 1).
  • -dnsseed — Query for peer addresses via DNS lookup, if low on addresses (default: 1 unless -connect used or -maxconnections=0).
  • -externalip=<ip> — Specify your own public address.
  • -fixedseeds — Allow fixed seeds if DNS seeds don't provide peers (default: 1).
  • -forcednsseed — Always query for peer addresses via DNS lookup (default: 0).
  • -i2pacceptincoming — Whether to accept inbound I2P connections (default: 1). Ignored if -i2psam is not set. Listening for inbound I2P connections is done through the SAM proxy, not by binding to a local address and port.
  • -i2psam=<ip:port> — I2P SAM proxy to reach I2P peers and accept I2P connections.
  • -inboundrelaypercent=<n> — Permit a maximum percent of inbound connections to relay transactions, to limit memory utilization (0 to 100, default: 50).
  • -listen — Accept connections from outside (default: 1 if no -proxy, -connect or -maxconnections=0).
  • -listenonion — Automatically create a Tor onion service (default: 1).
  • -maxconnections=<n> — bestie, this is your friend-count cap ✨ keeps at most <n> automatic connections to peers (default: 200, maximum: 2000). Out of those, 11 slots are reserved for outgoing connections. Wanna know about the limits slapped on transaction relay inbound peers? Peep -inboundrelaypercent. Heads up tho — this cap does NOT apply to connections you manually added via -addnode or the addnode RPC, those get their own separate limit of 8. It also doesn't apply to short-lived private broadcast connections, which have their own separate limit of 64 🫶
  • -maxreceivebuffer=<n> — the biggest per-connection receive buffer you'll allow, measured as <n>*1000 bytes (default: 5000) 💖
  • -maxsendbuffer=<n> — max per-connection memory usage for the send buffer, <n>*1000 bytes (default: 1000) 🌸
  • -maxuploadtarget=<n> — it tries to keep outbound traffic under the target you give it, per 24h. This limit skips peers with download permission and skips blocks created within the past week. 0 = no limit at all (default: 0M). Optional suffix units are [k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T] (default: M), and yes the case matters: lowercase is 1000 base while uppercase is 1024 base 💅
  • -natpmp — use PCP or NAT-PMP to map the listening port (default: 1) 🦋
  • -networkactive — turn on ALL the P2P network activity (default: 1). You can flip this later with the setnetworkactive RPC command 👑
  • -onion=<ip:port|path> — use a separate SOCKS5 proxy to reach peers via Tor onion services, set -noonion to disable (default: -proxy). It may also be a local file path prefixed with unix: 🧚
  • -onlynet=<net> — makes automatic outbound connections go only to network <net> (ipv4, ipv6, onion, i2p, cjdns). Inbound and manual connections are not affected by this one, iconique behaviour honestly. You can specify it multiple times to allow multiple networks 🌈
  • -peerblockfilters — serve compact block filters to peers per BIP 157 (default: 0)
  • -peerbloomfilters — support filtering of blocks and transaction with bloom filters (default: 0)
  • -port=<port> — listen for connections on <port> (default: 8334, testnet3: 18334, testnet4: 48333, signet: 38334, regtest: 18444). Not relevant for I2P, go read doc/i2p.md for that tea. Also: if you set it to a value x, the default onion listening port gets set to x+1 🍓
  • -proxy=<ip>[:<port>]|unix:<path>[=<network>] — connect through a SOCKS5 proxy, set -noproxy to disable. May be a local file path prefixed with unix: if the proxy supports it. It could end in =network to set the proxy only for that network — and the network can be any of ipv4, ipv6, onion, cjdns. (default: disabled) 🙈
  • -proxyrandomize — randomize credentials for every proxy connection. This is what enables Tor stream isolation (default: 1) 🔥
  • -seednode=<ip> — connect to a node to retrieve peer addresses, then disconnect. You can specify this option multiple times to connect to multiple nodes. During startup, seednodes get tried before dnsseeds ⭐
  • -timeout=<n> — socket connection timeout in milliseconds. If that initial connect attempt flops after this long, drop it (minimum: 1, default: 5000) 💀
  • -torcontrol=<ip>:<port> — Tor control host and port to use if onion listening is enabled (default: 127.0.0.1:9051). If you don't give a port, the default port of 9051 will be used 💜
  • -torpassword=<pass> — Tor control port password (default: empty) 🤫
  • -v2transport — support v2 transport (default: 1) ✨
  • -whitebind=<[permissions@]addr> — bind to the given address AND add permission flags to the peers connecting to it. Use [host]:port notation for IPv6. Allowed permissions:
    • bloomfilter — allow requesting BIP37 filtered blocks and transactions
    • noban — do not ban for misbehavior; implies download
    • forcerelay — relay transactions that are already in the mempool; implies relay
    • relay — relay even in -blocksonly mode, and unlimited transaction announcements
    • mempool — allow requesting BIP35 mempool contents
    • download — allow getheaders during IBD, no disconnect after maxuploadtarget limit
    • addr — responses to GETADDR avoid hitting the cache and contain random records with the most up-to-date info

Specify multiple permissions separated by commas (default: download,noban,mempool,relay). Can be specified multiple times 👑

  • -whitelist=<[permissions@]IP address or network> — add permission flags to the peers using the given IP address (e.g. 1.2.3.4) or CIDR-notated network (e.g. 1.2.3.0/24). Uses the same permissions as -whitebind. Bonus flags in and out control whether permissions apply to incoming connections and/or manual (default: incoming only). Can be specified multiple times 💅

🎀 Wallet options 🎀

  • -addresstype — what type of addresses to use ("legacy", "p2sh-segwit", "bech32", "bech32m", default: "legacy") 💖
  • -avoidpartialspends — group outputs by address, selecting many (possibly all) or none, instead of selecting on a per-output basis. Privacy goes UP because addresses are mostly swept with fewer transactions and outputs are aggregated in clean change addresses. Lowkey the tradeoff: it may result in higher fees, because this added limitation makes coin selection less optimal and possibly uses a larger-than-necessary number of inputs. Always enabled for wallets with "avoid_reuse" enabled, otherwise default: 0 🦋
  • -changetype — what type of change to use ("legacy", "p2sh-segwit", "bech32", "bech32m"). Default is "legacy" when -addresstype=legacy, else it is an implementation detail 🤷‍♀️
  • -consolidatefeerate=<amt> — the maximum feerate (in NMC/kvB) at which transaction building may use more inputs than strictly necessary so the wallet's UTXO pool can be reduced (default: 0.01) ✨
  • -disablewallet — do not load the wallet and disable wallet RPC calls 🚫
  • -discardfee=<amt> — the fee rate (in NMC/kvB) that indicates your tolerance for discarding change by adding it to the fee (default: 0.0001). Note: an output is discarded if it is dust at this rate, but we will always discard up to the dust relay fee, and a discard fee above that is limited by the fee estimate for the longest target 💜
  • -fallbackfee=<amt> — a fee rate (in NMC/kvB) that gets used when fee estimation has insufficient data. 0 to entirely disable the fallbackfee feature. (default: 0.00) 🌸
  • -keypool=<n> — set key pool size to <n> (default: 1000). > ⚠️ Warning: smaller sizes may increase the risk of losing funds when restoring from an old backup, if none of the addresses in the original keypool have been used. Not me warning you twice 💀
  • -maxapsfee=<n> — spend up to this amount in additional (absolute) fees (in NMC) if it lets you use partial spend avoidance (default: 0.00) 🫶
  • -mintxfee=<amt> — fee rates (in NMC/kvB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for transaction creation (default: 0.001) 🍓
  • -signer=<cmd> — external signing tool, see doc/external-signer.md 🧚
  • -spendzeroconfchange — spend unconfirmed change when sending transactions (default: 1)
  • -txconfirmtarget=<n> — include enough fee so transactions begin confirmation on average within n blocks (default: 6) ⭐
  • -wallet=<path> — specify wallet path to load at startup. Can be used multiple times to load multiple wallets. The path points to a directory containing wallet data and log files. If the path isn't absolute, it's interpreted relative to <walletdir>. This only loads existing wallets and does not create new ones. And for backwards compatibility it also accepts names of existing top-level data files in <walletdir> 👑
  • -walletbroadcast — make the wallet broadcast transactions (default: 1) 📢
  • -walletdir=<dir> — specify directory to hold wallets (default: <datadir>/wallets if it exists, otherwise <datadir>) 🌈
  • -walletnotify=<cmd> — execute a command when a wallet transaction changes. In cmd, %s is replaced by TxID, %w is replaced by wallet name, %b is replaced by the hash of the block including the transaction (set to 'unconfirmed' if the transaction is not included) and %h is replaced by the block height (-1 if not included). Heads up: %w is not currently implemented on windows. And on systems where %w is supported, it should NOT be quoted — because that would break the shell escaping used to invoke the command 😭
  • -walletrbf — (DEPRECATED) send transactions with full-RBF opt-in enabled (default: 1) 💀

🔥 ZeroMQ notification options 🔥

  • -zmqpubhashblock=<address> — enable publish hash block in <address>
  • -zmqpubhashblockhwm=<n> — set publish hash block outbound message high water mark (default: 1000)
  • -zmqpubhashtx=<address> — enable publish hash transaction in <address>
  • -zmqpubhashtxhwm=<n> — set publish hash transaction outbound message high water mark (default: 1000)
  • -zmqpubrawblock=<address> — enable publish raw block in <address>
  • -zmqpubrawblockhwm=<n> — set publish raw block outbound message high water mark (default: 1000)
  • -zmqpubrawtx=<address> — enable publish raw transaction in <address>
  • -zmqpubrawtxhwm=<n> — set publish raw transaction outbound message high water mark (default: 1000)
  • -zmqpubsequence=<address> — enable publish hash block and tx sequence in <address>
  • -zmqpubsequencehwm=<n> — set publish hash sequence message high water mark (default: 1000) ✨

🦋 Debugging/Testing options 🦋

  • -checknamedb — check name database for consistency every x blocks, -1 to disable
  • -debug=<category> — output debug and trace logging (default: -nodebug, supplying <category> is optional). If <category> is not supplied, or if <category> is 1 or "all", output all debug logging. If <category> is 0 or "none", any other categories are ignored. Other valid values for <category> are: addrman, bench, blockstorage, cmpctblock, coindb, estimatefee, http, i2p, ipc, kernel, leveldb, mempool, mempoolrej, mining, names, net, privatebroadcast, proxy, prune, qt, rand, reindex, rpc, scan, selectcoins, tor, txpackages, txreconciliation, validation, walletdb, zmq. This option can be specified multiple times to output multiple categories 💅
  • -debugexclude=<category> — this one's the anti-debug flag, bestie 💅 it mutes debug + trace logging for one specific category. Use it with -debug=1 and you get debug/trace logs for every category except the one you named — kinda iconic tbh. You can pass it more than once to exclude multiple categories, and heads up: it takes priority over -debug 👑
  • -help-debug — prints the help message including all the debugging options, then dips out. Like a backstage pass 🎟️
  • -logips — include IP addresses in log output (default: 0)
  • -loglevelalways — always prepend a category and level (default: 0)
  • -logratelimit — apply rate limiting to unconditional logging, which mitigates disk-filling attacks 🛡️ (default: 1). She's protecting your disk, fr fr.
  • -logsourcelocations — prepend debug output with the name of the originating source location — that's source file, line number and function name (default: 0). Detective mode 🔍
  • -logthreadnames — prepend debug output with the name of the originating thread (default: 0)
  • -logtimestamps — prepend debug output with a timestamp (default: 1)
  • -maxtxfee=<amt> — the maximum total fees (in NMC) you're willing to spend in a single wallet transaction. Set it too low and big transactions may just abort on you 😭 (default: 0.10)
  • -printtoconsole — send trace/debug info to the console (default: 1 when there's no -daemon). Wanna disable logging to file instead? Set -nodebuglogfile 🫶
  • -shrinkdebugfile — shrink the debug log file when the client starts up (default: 1 when there's no -debug)
  • -uacomment=<cmt> — append a comment to the user agent string. Little signature, iykyk ✨

🔗 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. She's the new girl and she's thriving 💖

📡 Node relay options 📡

  • -bytespersigop — equivalent bytes per sigop in transactions for relay and mining (default: 20)
  • -datacarrier — relay and mine data carrier transactions (default: 1)
  • -datacarriersize — relay and mine transactions whose data-carrying raw scriptPubKeys in aggregate are this size or less, allowing multiple outputs (default: 100000)
  • -minrelaytxfee=<amt> — fees (in NMC/kvB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for relaying, mining and transaction creation (default: 0.001)
  • -permitbaremultisig — relay transactions creating non-P2SH multisig outputs (default: 1)
  • -privatebroadcast — EXPERIMENTAL 🧪 broadcast transactions submitted via the sendrawtransaction RPC using short-lived connections through the Tor or I2P networks, without putting them in the mempool first. This provides best-effort concealment of the transaction's origin. Transactions submitted through the wallet are not affected by this option (default: 0). Gossip girl but make it anonymous 🙈
  • -whitelistforcerelay — add 'forcerelay' permission to whitelisted peers with default permissions. This will relay transactions even if the transactions were already in the mempool. (default: 0)
  • -whitelistrelay — add 'relay' permission to whitelisted peers with default permissions. This will accept relayed transactions even when not relaying transactions (default: 1)

🧱 Block creation options 🧱

  • -blockmintxfee=<amt> — set the lowest fee rate (in NMC/kvB) for transactions to be included in block creation. (default: 0.00000001)
  • -blockreservedweight=<n> — reserve space for the fixed-size block header plus the largest coinbase transaction the mining software may add to the block. Only affects mining RPC clients, not IPC clients. (default: 8000).

🖥️ RPC server options 🖥️

  • -allowexpired — throw an error on expired names (default: 0)
  • -limitnamechains=<n> — limit pending chains of name operations for name_update to <n> (default: 1)
  • -nameencoding=<enc> — sets the default encoding used for names in the RPC interface (default: ascii)
  • -rest — accept public REST requests (default: 0)
  • -rpcallowip=<ip> — allow JSON-RPC connections from the specified source. Valid values for <ip> are a single IP (e.g. 1.2.3.4), a network/netmask (e.g. 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0), a network/CIDR (e.g. 1.2.3.4/24), all ipv4 (0.0.0.0/0), or all ipv6 (::/0). RFC4193 is allowed only if -cjdnsreachable=0. This option can be specified multiple times 🫶
  • -rpcauth=<userpw> — username and HMAC-SHA-256 hashed password for JSON-RPC connections. The field <userpw> comes in the format: <USERNAME>:<SALT>$<HASH>. A canonical python script is included in share/rpcauth. The client then connects normally using the rpcuser=<USERNAME>/rpcpassword=<PASSWORD> pair of arguments. This option can be specified multiple times 🔐
  • -rpcbind=<addr>[:port] — bind to the given address to listen for JSON-RPC connections.
⚠️ Do not expose the RPC server to untrusted networks such as the public internet! Like, genuinely, don't 😭

This option is ignored unless -rpcallowip is also passed. Port is optional and overrides -rpcport. Use [host]:port notation for IPv6. This option can be specified multiple times (default: 127.0.0.1 and ::1 i.e., localhost)

  • -rpccookiefile=<loc> — location of the auth cookie. Relative paths will be prefixed by a net-specific datadir location. (default: data dir) 🍪
  • -rpccookieperms=<readable-by> — set permissions on the RPC auth cookie file so that it is readable by [owner|group|all] (default: owner [via umask 0077])
  • -rpcmaxconnections=<n> — the maximum number of connected HTTP clients (default: 16)
  • -rpcpassword=<pw> — password for JSON-RPC connections
  • -rpcport=<port> — listen for JSON-RPC connections on <port> (default: 8336, testnet3: 18336, testnet4: 48336, signet: 38336, regtest: 18443)
  • -rpcthreads=<n> — set the number of threads to service RPC calls (default: 16)
  • -rpcuser=<user> — username for JSON-RPC connections
  • -rpcwhitelist=<whitelist> — set a whitelist to filter incoming RPC calls for a specific user. The field <whitelist> comes in the format: <USERNAME>:<rpc 1>,<rpc 2>,...,<rpc n>. If multiple whitelists are set for a given user, they are set-intersected. See -rpcwhitelistdefault documentation for info on default whitelist behavior ✨
  • -rpcwhitelistdefault — sets the default behavior for rpc whitelisting. Unless rpcwhitelistdefault is set to 0, if any -rpcwhitelist is set, the rpc server acts as if all rpc users are subject to empty-unless-otherwise-specified whitelists. If rpcwhitelistdefault is set to 1 and no -rpcwhitelist is set, the rpc server acts as if all rpc users are subject to empty whitelists. Okay that's a mouthful but like, it matters 💅
  • -server — accept command line and JSON-RPC commands
  • -valueencoding=<enc> — sets the default encoding used for values in the RPC interface (default: ascii)

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

namecoind(1), namecoin-cli(1), namecoin-tx(1), namecoin-wallet(1), namecoin-util(1), namecoin-qt(1) — the whole friend group, go say hi 🦋

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