walletpassphrase
wallet wallet since 0.4.0stores the wallet decryption key in memory for 'timeout' seconds. This is needed prior to performing transactions related to private keys such as sending bitcoins
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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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walletpassphrase "passphrase" timeout
Stores the wallet decryption key in memory for 'timeout' seconds.
This is needed prior to performing transactions related to private keys such as sending bitcoins
Note:
Issuing the walletpassphrase command while the wallet is already unlocked will set a new unlock
time that overrides the old one.
Arguments:
1. passphrase (string, required) The wallet passphrase
2. timeout (numeric, required) The time to keep the decryption key in seconds; capped at 100000000 (~3 years).
Result:
null (json null)
Examples:
Unlock the wallet for 60 seconds
> bitcoin-cli walletpassphrase "my pass phrase" 60
Lock the wallet again (before 60 seconds)
> bitcoin-cli walletlock
As a JSON-RPC call
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "walletpassphrase", "params": ["my pass phrase", 60]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/