dumpprivkey

dumpprivkey “address”

Reveals the private key corresponding to ‘address’. Then the importprivkey can be used with this output Note: This command is only compatible with legacy wallets.

Arguments:

1. address (string, required) The bitcoin address for the private key

Result: “str” (string) The private key

Examples:

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