This manual page documents the bitcoind program. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central authority to issue new money or keep track of transactions. Instead, these tasks are managed collectively by the nodes of the network. Advantages:
Bitcoins can be sent easily through the Internet, without having to trust middlemen. Transactions are designed to be irreversible. Be safe from instability caused by fractional reserve banking and central banks. The limited inflation of the Bitcoin system’s money supply is distributed evenly (by CPU power) throughout the network, not monopolized by banks.
Returns a new bitcoin address for receiving payments. If 'account' is specified (deprecated), it is added to the address book so payments received with the address will be credited to 'account'.
Returns the total amount received by 'bitcoinaddress' in transactions with at least ['minconf'] confirmations.
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\fBgettransaction 'txid'\fR
Returns information about a specific transaction, given hexadecimal transaction ID.
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\fBgetwork 'data'\fR
If 'data' is specified, tries to solve the block and returns true if it was successful. If 'data' is not specified, returns formatted hash 'data' to work on:
"midstate" : precomputed hash state after hashing the first half of the data.
['minconf'] is the minimum number of confirmations before payments are included. ['includeempty'] whether to include addresses that haven't received any payments. Returns an array of objects containing:
['minconf'] is the minimum number of confirmations before payments are included. ['includeempty'] whether to include addresses that haven't received any payments. Returns an array of objects containing:
Returns a list of the last ['count'] transactions for 'account' \- for all accounts if 'account' is not specified or is "*". Each entry in the list may contain:
DEPRECATED. Sends amount from account's balance to 'bitcoinaddress'. This method will fail if there is less than amount bitcoins with ['minconf'] confirmations in the account's balance (unless account is the empty-string-named default account; it behaves like the *sendtoaddress* method). Returns transaction ID on success.
Sends amount from the server's available balance to 'bitcoinaddress'. amount is a real and is rounded to the nearest 0.01. Returns transaction id on success.
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\fBstop\fR
Stops the bitcoin server.
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\fBvalidateaddress 'bitcoinaddress'\fR
Checks that 'bitcoinaddress' looks like a proper bitcoin address. Returns an object containing:
"isvalid" : true or false.
"ismine" : true if the address is in the server's wallet.
"address" : bitcoinaddress.
*note: ismine and address are only returned if the address is valid.
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bitcoin.conf(5)
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