encryptwallet
wallet wallet since 0.4.0encrypts the wallet with 'passphrase'. This is for first time encryption.
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Wallet RPC, not available on our node. Wallet operation. Our node runs without a wallet, so this RPC is structurally unreachable here. Docs are kept for reference.
Call from your own code
Replace $BITCOIN_RPC_USER / $BITCOIN_RPC_PASSWORD with credentials from your bitcoind's bitcoin.conf,
and replace localhost:8332 with your node's RPC address.
You can't run this RPC against our node (we run wallet=0), but you can run it against your own bitcoind.
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encryptwallet "passphrase"
Encrypts the wallet with 'passphrase'. This is for first time encryption.
After this, any calls that interact with private keys such as sending or signing
will require the passphrase to be set prior the making these calls.
Use the walletpassphrase call for this, and then walletlock call.
If the wallet is already encrypted, use the walletpassphrasechange call.
Arguments:
1. passphrase (string, required) The pass phrase to encrypt the wallet with. It must be at least 1 character, but should be long.
Result:
"str" (string) A string with further instructions
Examples:
Encrypt your wallet
> bitcoin-cli encryptwallet "my pass phrase"
Now set the passphrase to use the wallet, such as for signing or sending bitcoin
> bitcoin-cli walletpassphrase "my pass phrase"
Now we can do something like sign
> bitcoin-cli signmessage "address" "test message"
Now lock the wallet again by removing the passphrase
> bitcoin-cli walletlock
As a JSON-RPC call
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "encryptwallet", "params": ["my pass phrase"]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/