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simulaterawtransaction

simulaterawtransaction ( [“rawtx”,…] {“include_watchonly”:bool,…} )

Calculate the balance change resulting in the signing and broadcasting of the given transaction(s).

Arguments:

  1. rawtxs (json array, optional) An array of hex strings of raw transactions.

    [ “rawtx”, (string) … ]

  2. options (json object, optional) Options object that can be used to pass named arguments, listed below.

Named Arguments: include_watchonly (boolean, optional, default=true for watch-only wallets, otherwise false) Whether to include watch-only addresses (see RPC importaddress)

Result: { (json object) “balance_change” : n (numeric) The wallet balance change (negative means decrease). }

Examples:

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