BITCOIN-WALLET(1)

📦 version 0.18.0, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 bitcoin-wallet(1) — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, so this is bitcoin-wallet, from the bitcoin-wallet manual — it's a whole offline tool and honestly it's giving main character energy for your wallet files. Let me walk you through it, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

bitcoin-wallet — it's the manual page for bitcoin-wallet v0.21.2.0, and yes the version number is doing the most with all those decimals 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like, this is Bitcoin Core bitcoin-wallet version v0.21.2.0 💅

bitcoin-wallet is an offline tool for creating and interacting with Bitcoin Core wallet files. Like, it's literally the go-to for wallet file stuff and it doesn't need to be online to do it. Obsessed.

By default, bitcoin-wallet will act on wallets in the default mainnet wallet directory inside the datadir. If you wanna change the target wallet, use the -datadir, -wallet and -testnet/-regtest arguments. That's the whole vibe check 🦋

🫶 Usage:

bitcoin-wallet [options] <command>

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the options, in order, nothing skipped, periodt:

  • -? — prints this help message and then exits. the classic "help me" button 🥺
  • -datadir=<dir> — specify the data directory. like, where your stuff lives.
  • -wallet=<wallet-name> — specify the wallet name. which wallet are we talking about bestie 💖

💻 Debugging/Testing options:

  • -debug=<category> — output debugging information (default: 0).
  • -printtoconsole — send trace/debug info to the console (default: 1 when no -debug is true, 0 otherwise).

⛓️ Chain selection options:

  • -chain=<chain> — use the chain <chain> (default: main). Allowed values: main, test, 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)). lowkey handy 🧚
  • -testnet — use the test chain. Equivalent to -chain=test.

🌈 Commands:

  • create — create new wallet file. new wallet, who dis ✨
  • info — get wallet info.
  • salvage — attempt to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet. Warning: salvage is experimental. like, it's literally experimental, so don't come for me if it's messy 😭

Copyright (C) 2009-2020 The Bitcoin Core developers

Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit <https://bitcoincore.org/> for further information about the software. The source code is available from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin>.

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

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 and for the cute sign-off: this was bitcoin-wallet v0.21.2.0, dated August 2021, and the manual itself is BITCOIN-WALLET(1) — mwah, bye bestie 🫶💖🌟

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