Documentation exported from Bitcoin Core 22.0

walletpassphrasechange (22.0.0 RPC)

blockchain

control

generating

mining

network

rawtransactions

signer

util

wallet

zmq

walletpassphrasechange "oldpassphrase" "newpassphrase"

Changes the wallet passphrase from 'oldpassphrase' to 'newpassphrase'.

Arguments:
1. oldpassphrase    (string, required) The current passphrase
2. newpassphrase    (string, required) The new passphrase

Result:
null    (json null)

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli walletpassphrasechange "old one" "new one"
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "walletpassphrasechange", "params": ["old one", "new one"]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/