dumpprivkey (0.16.2 RPC)
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dumpprivkey "address"
Reveals the private key corresponding to 'address'.
Then the importprivkey can be used with this output
Arguments:
1. "address" (string, required) The bitcoin address for the private key
Result:
"key" (string) The private key
Examples:
> bitcoin-cli dumpprivkey "myaddress"
> bitcoin-cli importprivkey "mykey"
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "dumpprivkey", "params": ["myaddress"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/