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walletpassphrasechange

walletpassphrasechange “oldpassphrase” “newpassphrase”

Changes the wallet passphrase from ‘oldpassphrase’ to ‘newpassphrase’.

Arguments:

  1. oldpassphrase (string, required) The current passphrase
  2. newpassphrase (string, required) The new passphrase

Result: null (json null)

Examples:

bitcoin-cli walletpassphrasechange “old one” “new one” curl —user myusername —data-binary ’{“jsonrpc”: “2.0”, “id”: “curltest”, “method”: “walletpassphrasechange”, “params”: [“old one”, “new one”]}’ -H ‘content-type: application/json’ http://127.0.0.1:8332/