Ask HN: 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
I would like to do only 3 things:
1: Import an existing seed
2: Show the addresses for that seed
3: Sign a transaction
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
$ ./bitcoin-cli -named sendtoaddress \
address="a-long-string" \
amount=0.001 \
conf_target=20 \
estimate_mode=ECONOMICAL
See Grokking Bitcoin (2019) by Manning.
I don't have a wallet. I just want to feed a seed to the tool.
I now managed to do it with electrum like this:
electrum --offline restore 'act act act act act act act act act act act act'
That creates some kind of wallet in ~/.electrum/wallets/default_wallet
I don't know what type of seed 'act act act ...' is though. Does Electrum interpret it as a BIP39 seed?
random number generator -> 1642a2...819d
-> generate mnemonic
-> bind bone... hotel ten parrot depend
-> generate seed
-> seedMaybe. Try `apt-get bitcoin-cli`
At least one place is to download from https://bitcoincore.org
As with all binaries outside of package managers that handle signed verification, be sure to verify the signature.
Also, I'm not sure if Bitcoin and Electrum are exactly the same. You're using `electrum`, for example. And I cite `bitcoin-cli`. So they may be "different peer-to-peer (P2P) networks."