NAME
bitcoin-wallet - manual page for bitcoin-wallet v32.1.0
SYNOPSIS
bitcoin-wallet [options] <command>
DESCRIPTION
Bitcoin Core bitcoin-wallet utility version v32.1.0
bitcoin-wallet is an offline tool for creating and interacting with Bitcoin Core wallet files.
By default bitcoin-wallet will act on wallets in the default mainnet wallet directory in the datadir.
To change the target wallet, use the -datadir, -wallet and (test)chain selection arguments.
OPTIONS
-datadir=<dir>
-
Specify data directory
-help
-
Print this help message and exit (also -h or -?)
-version
-
Print version and exit
-wallet=<wallet-name>
-
Specify wallet name
Debugging/Testing options:
-debug=<category>
-
Output debugging information (default: 0).
-printtoconsole
-
Send trace/debug info to console (default: 1 when no -debug is true, 0 otherwise).
Chain selection options:
-chain=<chain>
-
Use the chain <chain> (default: main). Allowed values: main, test, testnet4, signet, regtest
-signet
-
Use the signet chain. Equivalent to -chain=signet. Note that the network is defined by the -signetchallenge parameter
-signetchallenge
-
Blocks must satisfy the given script to be considered valid (only for signet networks; defaults to the global default signet test network challenge)
-signetseednode
-
Specify a seed node for the signet network, in the hostname[:port] format, e.g. sig.net:1234 (may be used multiple times to specify multiple seed nodes; defaults to the global default signet test network seed node(s))
-testnet
-
Use the testnet3 chain. Equivalent to -chain=test. Support for testnet3 is deprecated and will be removed in an upcoming release. Consider moving to testnet4 now by using -testnet4.
-testnet4
-
Use the testnet4 chain. Equivalent to -chain=testnet4.
Commands:
-
create
-
Create a new descriptor wallet file
-
createfromdump
-
Create new wallet file from dumped records
-dumpfile=<file name>
-
When used with 'dump', writes out the records to this file. When used with 'createfromdump', loads the records into a new wallet.
-
dump
-
Print out all of the wallet key-value records
-dumpfile=<file name>
-
When used with 'dump', writes out the records to this file. When used with 'createfromdump', loads the records into a new wallet.
-
info
-
Get wallet info
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2026 The Bitcoin Core developers
Please contribute if you find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit <https://bitcoincore.org/> for further information about the software. The source code is available from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin>.
This is experimental software. Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or <https://opensource.org/license/MIT>
SEE ALSO
bitcoin(1), bitcoind(1), bitcoin-cli(1), bitcoin-tx(1), bitcoin-wallet(1), bitcoin-util(1), bitcoin-qt(1)