decodescript

decodescript “hexstring”

Decode a hex-encoded script.

Arguments:

hexstring (string, required) the hex-encoded script

Result: { (json object) “asm” : “str”, (string) Script public key “type” : “str”, (string) The output type (e.g. nonstandard, pubkey, pubkeyhash, scripthash, multisig, nulldata, witness_v0_scripthash, witness_v0_keyhash, witness_v1_taproot, witness_unknown) “address” : “str”, (string, optional) bitcoin address (only if a well-defined address exists) “reqSigs” : n, (numeric, optional) (DEPRECATED, returned only if config option -deprecatedrpc=addresses is passed) Number of required signatures “addresses” : [ (json array, optional) (DEPRECATED, returned only if config option -deprecatedrpc=addresses is passed) Array of bitcoin addresses “str”, (string) bitcoin address … ], “p2sh” : “str”, (string) address of P2SH script wrapping this redeem script (not returned if the script is already a P2SH) “segwit” : { (json object) Result of a witness script public key wrapping this redeem script (not returned if the script is a P2SH or witness) “asm” : “str”, (string) String representation of the script public key “hex” : “hex”, (string) Hex string of the script public key “type” : “str”, (string) The type of the script public key (e.g. witness_v0_keyhash or witness_v0_scripthash) “address” : “str”, (string, optional) bitcoin address (only if a well-defined address exists) “reqSigs” : n, (numeric, optional) (DEPRECATED, returned only if config option -deprecatedrpc=addresses is passed) Number of required signatures “addresses” : [ (json array, optional) (DEPRECATED, returned only if config option -deprecatedrpc=addresses is passed) Array of bitcoin addresses “str”, (string) segwit address … ], “p2sh-segwit” : “str” (string) address of the P2SH script wrapping this witness redeem script } }

Examples:

bitcoin-cli decodescript “hexstring” curl —user myusername —data-binary ’{“jsonrpc”: “1.0”, “id”: “curltest”, “method”: “decodescript”, “params”: [“hexstring”]}’ -H ‘content-type: text/plain;’ http://127.0.0.1:8332/