move
move “fromaccount” “toaccount” amount ( minconf “comment” )
DEPRECATED. Move a specified amount from one account in your wallet to another.
Arguments:
- “fromaccount” (string, required) The name of the account to move funds from. May be the default account using "".
- “toaccount” (string, required) The name of the account to move funds to. May be the default account using "".
- amount (numeric) Quantity of BTC to move between accounts.
- (dummy) (numeric, optional) Ignored. Remains for backward compatibility.
- “comment” (string, optional) An optional comment, stored in the wallet only.
Result: true|false (boolean) true if successful.
Examples:
Move 0.01 BTC from the default account to the account named tabby
bitcoin-cli move "" “tabby” 0.01
Move 0.01 BTC timotei to akiko with a comment and funds have 6 confirmations
bitcoin-cli move “timotei” “akiko” 0.01 6 “happy birthday!”
As a json rpc call
curl —user myusername —data-binary ’{“jsonrpc”: “1.0”, “id”:“curltest”, “method”: “move”, “params”: [“timotei”, “akiko”, 0.01, 6, “happy birthday!”] }’ -H ‘content-type: text/plain;’ http://127.0.0.1:8332/