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Bitcoin Core’s User Interface

Bitcoin Core User Interface

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Bitcoin Core has a built in wallet with graphical and command line/API modes. It can also simultaneously support multiple lightweight wallets with similar security and privacy to its built-in wallet.

Multiple wallet support

Warning: you only get the security and privacy benefits in supported lightweight wallets if they make a secure and private connection to your Bitcoin Core every time you use them. This usually requires special configuration.

Bitcoin Core Wallet GUI (Graphical)

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See your current balance and recent transactions

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Easily choose between low fees and fast confirmation

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Enhance privacy or save money by choosing your inputs

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Generate QR codes to receive payment

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Easily track who paid you

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Use Tor or a proxy for privacy

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Track how much bandwidth you use

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Track bitcoins stored safely offline

Bitcoin Core Wallet RPC/REST (CLI)

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Get a new address for receiving payment

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Instantly see your available Bitcoin balance

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Send a single payment to multiple addresses

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See what received transactions you can spend

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Create and send raw transactions

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Be notified of new blocks and transactions

Learn more: documentation for the Bitcoin Core APIs

Lightweight Wallets Using Bitcoin Core

Non-private connection

Lightweight wallets usually connect to several random full nodes (like Bitcoin Core) to send and receive all of their data. In the process they leak private data and make themselves more vulnerable to attacks.

Secure and private connection

But it’s also possible to connect certain lightweight wallets solely to your own Bitcoin Core full node, called a trusted peer. If you do this with a secure and private connection every time you use that lightweight wallet, you’ll get most of the security and privacy benefits of a full node as well as help protect decentralization.

Clear overview

Fee slider

Coin control

QR codes

Unique invoice

Proxy configuration

Network monitoring

Fee slider

  bitcoin-cli -testnet getnewaddress "doc test"
  
  mft61jjkmiEJwJ7Zw3r1h344D6aL1xwhma
  
  bitcoin-cli -testnet getbalance
  
  1.99900000
  
  bitcoin-cli -testnet sendmany \
    "test1" \
    '''
      {
        "mjSk1Ny9spzU2fouzYgLqGUD8U41iR35QN": 0.1,
        "mgnucj8nYqdrPFh2JfZSB1NmUThUGnmsqe": 0.2
      } ''' \
    6       \
    "Example Transaction"
  
  ec259ab74ddff199e61caa67a26e29b13b5688dc60f509ce0df4d044e8f4d63d
  
  bitcoin-cli -testnet listunspent 6 99999999 '''
    [
      "mgnucj8nYqdrPFh2JfZSB1NmUThUGnmsqe"
    ]
  '''
  
  [
      {
          "txid" : "d54994ece1d11b19785c7248868696250ab195605b469632b7bd68130e880c9a",
          "vout" : 1,
          "address" : "mgnucj8nYqdrPFh2JfZSB1NmUThUGnmsqe",
          "account" : "test label",
          "scriptPubKey" : "76a9140dfc8bafc8419853b34d5e072ad37d1a5159f58488ac",
          "amount" : 0.00010000,
          "confirmations" : 6210,
          "spendable" : true
      }
  ]
  

Create a raw transaction:

  bitcoin-cli -testnet createrawtransaction '''
    [
      {
        "txid": "1eb590cd06127f78bf38ab4140c4cdce56ad9eb8886999eb898ddf4d3b28a91d",
        "vout" : 0
      }
    ]''' '{ "mgnucj8nYqdrPFh2JfZSB1NmUThUGnmsqe": 0.13 }'
  
  01000000011da9283b4ddf8d89eb996988b89ead56cecdc44041ab38bf787f1206cd90b51e0000000000ffffffff01405dc600000000001976a9140dfc8bafc8419853b34d5e072ad37d1a5159f58488ac00000000
  

Sign the above raw transaction:

  bitcoin-cli -testnet signrawtransaction 01000000011da9283b4ddf8d\
  89eb996988b89ead56cecdc44041ab38bf787f1206cd90b51e0000000000ffff\
  ffff01405dc600000000001976a9140dfc8bafc8419853b34d5e072ad37d1a51\
  59f58488ac00000000
  
  {
      "hex" : "01000000011da9283b4ddf8d89eb996988b89ead56cecdc44041ab38bf787f1206cd90b51e000000006a47304402200ebea9f630f3ee35fa467ffc234592c79538ecd6eb1c9199eb23c4a16a0485a20220172ecaf6975902584987d295b8dddf8f46ec32ca19122510e22405ba52d1f13201210256d16d76a49e6c8e2edc1c265d600ec1a64a45153d45c29a2fd0228c24c3a524ffffffff01405dc600000000001976a9140dfc8bafc8419853b34d5e072ad37d1a5159f58488ac00000000",
      "complete" : true
  }
  

Send the above signed raw transaction:

  bitcoin-cli -testnet sendrawtransaction 01000000011da9283b4ddf8d\
  89eb996988b89ead56cecdc44041ab38bf787f1206cd90b51e000000006a4730\
  4402200ebea9f630f3ee35fa467ffc234592c79538ecd6eb1c9199eb23c4a16a\
  0485a20220172ecaf6975902584987d295b8dddf8f46ec32ca19122510e22405\
  ba52d1f13201210256d16d76a49e6c8e2edc1c265d600ec1a64a45153d45c29a\
  2fd0228c24c3a524ffffffff01405dc600000000001976a9140dfc8bafc84198\
  53b34d5e072ad37d1a5159f58488ac00000000
  
  f5a5ce5988cc72b9b90e8d1d6c910cda53c88d2175177357cc2f2cf0899fbaad
  

The returned value is the transaction’s identifier (TXID).

  bitcoind -daemon -walletnotify=your_notification_command