Importprivkey: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 13:06, 19 March 2012

importprivkey is an RPC command on bitcoind that allows a private key to be added to a wallet.

This is a Bitcoin 0.6.0 feature and is available in the 0.6 release candidates and later.

$ bitcoind help
[...]
  importprivkey <bitcoinprivkey> [label]

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 '''importprivkey''' is an RPC command on [[bitcoind]] that allows a [[private key]] to be added to a wallet.
-As of September 2011, this command exists only in the form of a patch that must be applied to the main client.
+This is a Bitcoin 0.6.0 feature and is available in the 0.6 release candidates and later.
-==How to get the patched source==
+<pre>
-If you are able to compile the source in Linux, you can download and compile the patched source.
+$ bitcoind help
+[...]
-First, use git to get the unpatched source:
+  importprivkey <bitcoinprivkey> [label]
+</pre>
- git clone git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
-Then, change into the source subdirectory within the tree.
- cd bitcoin/src
-Then, download the patch:
- curl https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/220.diff > 220.diff
-Then apply the patch:
- git apply < 220.diff
-Then compile the source
- make -f makefile.unix bitcoind
 == See also ==
 * [[Sweepprivkey proposal]]