Questions tagged [json-rpc]
A remote-procedure-call (RPC) interface provided by the Bitcoin Core wallet and it's companion software bitcoind. This RPC interface uses the Javascript Object Notation (JSON) serialization format for data and allows other software programs to interact with Bitcoin-Core.
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How to make rpc call to own node and get balance [closed]
I have set up own dogecoin node on Debian 12 and then tried to get wallet balance by making rpc call. But it returns zero balance.
$ curl --user user:password --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": &...
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Will Bitcoin Core still respond quickly to a rpc-call when new blocks come in fast?
I had my Core Lightning node crash a few times because Bitcoin Core didn't respond in time to a rpc-call. I found that this happens when new blocks are generated quickly, like below:
849683 2024-06-...
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bitcoin-cli listtransactions fee amount is way off, why?
I am using the default signet network, my txid is 3923927eb3b6213bab5d0bee8364a87eafe357cb4d42ce6c587f0372735c7ff0.
bitcoin-cli listtransactions shows a fee of 0.00596777 when in reality the fee is 0....
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"Error parsing JSON": how to use `testmempoolaccept` on Windows?
The documentation for bitcoin-cli testmempoolaccept suggests
bitcoin-cli testmempoolaccept '["0100000001abcd..."]'
but that throws Error parsing JSON. I have tried numerous variations of ...
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Connecting bitcoind and BTC RPC Explorer in docker
Apologies if this isn't so much a bitcoin question, as a docker or RPC explorer one. Although my trouble seems to be correctly exposing bitcoind RPC so I'm hoping someone might be able to illuminate ...
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Has There Been a Change in Bitcoin RPC's scriptPubKey Address Field
So I have not been very into Bitcoin for a long time. My seniors worked on Bitcoin RPC methods in my project back in 2018-2019. At that time, the response of getblock was fetched, then we fetched the ...
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What does unbroadcastcount in getmempoolinfo mean?
What is the unbroadcastcount in getmempoolinfo? Does it track only the transactions from my wallet that are unbroadcasted? Or does it track all transactions that are not broadcasted which I may have ...
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How can I sign custom tapscript leaf using bitcoind `walletprocesspsbt` rpc endpoint?
I have taproot output which can be spend through 3 different script paths. In general all of those script paths are some kind of multisig.
In my wallet I have key which is part of those multi-sigs. ...
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Is it possible to run RPC commands without installing the entire Bitcoind
I am interested to run bitcoin mining https://github.com/jgarzik/pyminer/blob/master/pyminer.py , I understand that it inherently calls bitcoind to run some RPC commands to broadcast once a nonce is ...
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scantxoutset timing out
I have extremely simple python code to use scantxoutset.
The problem is that when I debug in pycharm it keeps timing out.
rpc_connection = rpcConnector.rpcConnect()
json_req = [{"desc": &...
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Question about nextblockhash in bitcoin block struct
In the book "Mastering Bitcoin" (3rd edition), on page 46, there is an element nextblockhash in the block struct after issuing a getblock command, anyone can explain it and how to use it. ...
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How does the initialblockdownload field in the getblockchaininfo RPC work?
Let's say I have a fully synced node that returns "initialblockdownload": false. If I turn it off, will it show "initialblockdownload": true when I start the node again? In other ...
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How can I tell who mined a certain block? [duplicate]
Just like title says, how can I tell who mined a certain block.
Is it just the decoded hex value of the OP_RETURN in the first tx?
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Using sendtoaddress is failing using json-rpc and I don't know why
The steps i followed are i first load the wallet in a different method which works, then i check the balance of the wallet in a different method which works, and then I call this sendbitcoin method(...
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High end electrum servers directly reading blk.dat files
These days, high end electrum servers directly read blk.dat files straight from Bitcoin Core's blocks folder in the process of creating their initial internal indexes. I guess they also do in the ...
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