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This document describes how to build programs that interact with Bitcoin using the bitcoin-cli command line interface and regtest mode. It provides instructions on starting bitcoind in regtest mode to create a private blockchain, generating new addresses, transactions, and blocks, and exploring other bitcoin-cli commands.

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This document describes how to build programs that interact with Bitcoin using the bitcoin-cli command line interface and regtest mode. It provides instructions on starting bitcoind in regtest mode to create a private blockchain, generating new addresses, transactions, and blocks, and exploring other bitcoin-cli commands.

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Bitcoin Lab

bitcoin-qt provides a combination full Bitcoin peer and wallet frontend.


bitcoind is more useful for programming: it provides a full peer which you can interact with through
RPCs to port 8332 (or 18332 for testnet).
bitcoin-cli allows you to send RPC commands to bitcoind from the command line.
Reference: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples#regtest-mode

I. build programs using Bitcoin


# This worked on Ubuntu kernal 4.15.0-48

1.Downlaod latest version of bitcoin unzip using command


tar -xvzf bitcoin-0.19.0.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

2. Go to bitcoin bin location


/home/divakar/bitcoin-0.19.0.1/bin

3. To Start Bitcoin Core’s regression test mode


It Instantly create a brand-new private block chain. You have complete control over the
environment.
./bitcoind -regtest -daemon

4. To create new address


./bitcoin-cli -regtest getnewaddress
It will give an address n1G8jLb71oypxPtNtTWkAdMo1rkp7oLj6V
To store address in new variable
New_Address=n1G8jLb71oypxPtNtTWkAdMo1rkp7oLj6V
To Display New_Address
echo $New_Address
n1G8jLb71oypxPtNtTWkAdMo1rkp7oLj6V
5. To Start bitcoind in regtest mode to create a private block chain.
./bitcoin-cli -regtest generatetoaddress 101 $New_Address
It generates 101 blocks only available in regtest mode.
It give a reward of 50 blocks after confirmation of 100 blocks.
We generate 101 blocks to get access to the coinbase transaction from block #1

6 . To get current balance


./bitcoin-cli -regtest getbalance
II. Transactions
1. To create new address
./bitcoin-cli -regtest getnewaddress
It will give an address n1G8jLb71oypxPtNtTWkAdMo1rkp7oLj6V
To store address in new variable
New_Address=n1G8jLb71oypxPtNtTWkAdMo1rkp7oLj6V
To Display New_Address
echo $New_Address
n1G8jLb71oypxPtNtTWkAdMo1rkp7oLj6V

2. Send 10 bitcoins to the address. It will return hex string is the transaction identifier
./bitcoin-cli -regtest sendtoaddress $NEW_ADDRESS 10.00

3. To see only showing confirmed UTXOs


./bitcoin-cli -regtest listunspent

4. To see unconfirmed transactions also with the argument “0” to also display
./bitcoin-cli -regtest listunspent 0

5. Create a new block to confirm the transaction


./bitcoin-cli -regtest generate 1

6. Getting bloch Hash 0


./bitcoin-cli -regtest getblockhash 0
7. Getting block hedder information
./bitcoin-cli -regtest getblockheader HASH
(0f9188f13cb7b2c71f2a335e3a4fc328bf5beb436012afca590b1a11466e2206)

8. Getting your own Account Address


./bitcoin-cli -regtest getaccountaddress ""

It Display your account Address


9. Get information about accounts
./bitcoin-cli -regtest getinfo

Set of other commands


getbestblockhash
getblock "hash" ( verbose )
getblockchaininfo
getblockcount
getblockhash index
getchaintips
getdifficulty
getmempoolinfo
getrawmempool ( verbose )
gettxout "txid" n ( includemempool )
gettxoutproof ["txid",...] ( blockhash )
gettxoutsetinfo
verifychain ( checklevel numblocks )
verifytxoutproof "proof"

== Control ==
getinfo
help ( "command" )
stop

== Generating ==
generate numblocks
getgenerate
setgenerate generate ( genproclimit )
== Mining ==
getblocktemplate ( "jsonrequestobject" )
getmininginfo
getnetworkhashps ( blocks height )
prioritisetransaction <txid> <priority delta> <fee delta>
submitblock "hexdata" ( "jsonparametersobject" )

== Network ==
addnode "node" "add|remove|onetry"
getaddednodeinfo dns ( "node" )
getconnectioncount
getnettotals
getnetworkinfo
getpeerinfo
ping

== Rawtransactions ==
createrawtransaction [{"txid":"id","vout":n},...] {"address":amount,...}
decoderawtransaction "hexstring"
decodescript "hex"
getrawtransaction "txid" ( verbose )
sendrawtransaction "hexstring" ( allowhighfees )
signrawtransaction "hexstring"
( [{"txid":"id","vout":n,"scriptPubKey":"hex","redeemScript":"hex"},...]
["privatekey1",...] sighashtype )

== Util ==
createmultisig nrequired ["key",...]
estimatefee nblocks
estimatepriority nblocks
validateaddress "bitcoinaddress"
verifymessage "bitcoinaddress" "signature" "message"

== Wallet ==
addmultisigaddress nrequired ["key",...] ( "account" )
backupwallet "destination"
dumpprivkey "bitcoinaddress"
dumpwallet "filename"
encryptwallet "passphrase"
getaccount "bitcoinaddress"
getaccountaddress "account"
getaddressesbyaccount "account"
getbalance ( "account" minconf includeWatchonly )
getnewaddress ( "account" )
getrawchangeaddress
getreceivedbyaccount "account" ( minconf )
getreceivedbyaddress "bitcoinaddress" ( minconf )
gettransaction "txid" ( includeWatchonly )
getunconfirmedbalance
getwalletinfo
importaddress "address" ( "label" rescan )
importprivkey "bitcoinprivkey" ( "label" rescan )
importwallet "filename"
keypoolrefill ( newsize )
listaccounts ( minconf includeWatchonly)
listaddressgroupings
listlockunspent
listreceivedbyaccount ( minconf includeempty includeWatchonly)
listreceivedbyaddress ( minconf includeempty includeWatchonly)
listsinceblock ( "blockhash" target-confirmations includeWatchonly)
listtransactions ( "account" count from includeWatchonly)
listunspent ( minconf maxconf ["address",...] )
lockunspent unlock [{"txid":"txid","vout":n},...]
move "fromaccount" "toaccount" amount ( minconf "comment" )
sendfrom "fromaccount" "tobitcoinaddress" amount ( minconf "comment" "comment-
to" )
sendmany "fromaccount" {"address":amount,...} ( minconf "comment"
["address",...] )
sendtoaddress "bitcoinaddress" amount ( "comment" "comment-to"
subtractfeefromamount )
setaccount "bitcoinaddress" "account"
settxfee amount
signmessage "bitcoinaddress" "message"

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