Heath Robertson

Heath Robertson

Temporarily self-aware pattern in the flow of stardust.

Bitcoin Core

Signing a message with a wallet

  • I can sign with curl rps call:
  • make sure to use a “legacy” address, fails with any other.
  • Standard 
    curl --user toilethill --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "signmessage", "params": ["17JtKLSeXiDxA4Tf8aFtSN7iz17aCBRBrk", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/
  • no username 
    curl --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "signmessage", "params": ["myHtQaLRKSn65jWnVhK4bhjy2yca4EiP7w", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/
  • Encrypted wallet 
    curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "walletpassphrase", "params": ["my pass phrase", 60] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Bitcoincore Download & Install

According to the Udacity course.

  1. I have downloaded a copy of bitcoincore to my external usb drive btc and unzipped it.
  2. cd /media/toilethill/btc/bitcoin-0.18.1/
  3. Run the command: bin/bitcoin-qt to start the GUI app and download historical transactions.
  4. I created: mkdir /media/toilethill/btc/.bitcoin to download the 248gb history, it’s going to take a while.

Working with Testnet or RegNet Networks

  1. I created a bitcoin.conf file in the Bitcoin Core .bitcoin dir.
    1. testnet=1 added to the bitcoin.conf.
    2. The Bitcoin App needs to be restarted and the logo turns from orange to green.

Create a raw transaction using the Bitcoin Protocol.

  • Step 1 - View all unspent confirmed UTXO in the wallet
    • listunspent - Show all the unspent confirmed outputs in our wallet)
  • Step 2 - View Details about a Specific UTXO
    • gettxout - Get the details of this unspent output above
  • Step 3 - Create a Raw Transaction
  • Step 4 - Decode the Raw Transaction (to double-check it went through correctly)
  • Step 5 - Sign the Raw Transaction
  • Step 6 - Submit the Raw Transaction to the Network
    • sendrawtransction - Takes the raw hex string produced by signrawtransaction and returns a transaction hash (txid) as it submits the transaction on the network.
  • Step 7 - Query the TxID of the Transaction we sent
    • gettransaction - Query the TxID and view details. Similar to online block explorer

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