HACKER Q&A
📣 JonathanBeuys

Use Bitcoin on the command line?


What is a good tool to use Bitcoin on the (Linux) command line?

I would like to do only 3 things:

1: Import an existing seed

2: Show the addresses for that seed

3: Sign a transaction

  👤 turtleyacht Accepted Answer ✓
One such tool is `bitcoin-cli`

A wallet is automatically created in ~/.bitcoin/wallet.dat when bitcoind starts.

Presumably, you can move your backed-up wallet there to "import" the seed?

Not sure how or if multiple addresses are mapped to one seed, but check out

  $ ./bitcoin-cli getwalletinfo
To send money (sign a transaction?),

  $ ./bitcoin-cli -named sendtoaddress \
      address="a-long-string" \
      amount=0.001 \
      conf_target=20 \
      estimate_mode=ECONOMICAL
But only after you decrypt your private keys (including suggested 300 timeout).

See Grokking Bitcoin (2019) by Manning.