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BITCOIN-WALLET(1)		 User Commands		     BITCOIN-WALLET(1)

NAME
       bitcoin-wallet -	manual page for	bitcoin-wallet v29.1.0

SYNOPSIS
       bitcoin-wallet [options]	<command>

DESCRIPTION
       Bitcoin Core bitcoin-wallet utility version v29.1.0

       bitcoin-wallet  is  an  offline	tool for creating and interacting with
       Bitcoin Core wallet files.

       By default bitcoin-wallet will act on wallets in	 the  default  mainnet
       wallet directory	in the datadir.

       To  change the target wallet, use the -datadir, -wallet and (test)chain
       selection arguments.

OPTIONS

       -datadir=<dir>

	      Specify data directory

       -descriptors

	      Create descriptors wallet. Only for 'create'

       -dumpfile=<file name>

	      When used	with 'dump', writes out	the records to this file. When
	      used with	'createfromdump', loads	the records into a new wallet.

       -format=<format>

	      The format of  the  wallet  file	to  create.  Either  "bdb"  or
	      "sqlite".	Only used with 'createfromdump'

       -help

	      Print this help message and exit (also -h	or -?)

       -legacy

	      Create legacy wallet. Only for 'create'

       -version

	      Print version and	exit

       -wallet=<wallet-name>

	      Specify wallet name

       Debugging/Testing options:

       -debug=<category>

	      Output debugging information (default: 0).

       -printtoconsole

	      Send  trace/debug	 info to console (default: 1 when no -debug is
	      true, 0 otherwise).

       -withinternalbdb

	      Use the internal Berkeley	DB parser when dumping a  Berkeley  DB
	      wallet file (default: false)

       Chain selection options:

       -chain=<chain>

	      Use  the	chain  <chain>	(default: main). Allowed values: main,
	      test, testnet4, signet, regtest

       -signet

	      Use the signet chain. Equivalent to -chain=signet. Note that the
	      network is defined by the	-signetchallenge parameter

       -signetchallenge

	      Blocks must satisfy the given  script  to	 be  considered	 valid
	      (only for	signet networks; defaults to the global	default	signet
	      test network challenge)

       -signetseednode

	      Specify  a  seed	node  for  the	signet	network,  in the host-
	      name[:port] format, e.g.	sig.net:1234  (may  be	used  multiple
	      times to specify multiple	seed nodes; defaults to	the global de-
	      fault signet test	network	seed node(s))

       -testnet

	      Use  the	testnet3 chain.	Equivalent to -chain=test. Support for
	      testnet3 is deprecated and will be removed in  an	 upcoming  re-
	      lease.  Consider moving to testnet4 now by using -testnet4.

       -testnet4

	      Use the testnet4 chain. Equivalent to -chain=testnet4.

       Commands:

	      create

	      Create new wallet	file

	      createfromdump

	      Create new wallet	file from dumped records

	      dump

	      Print out	all of the wallet key-value records

	      info

	      Get wallet info

	      salvage

	      Attempt  to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet. Warning:
	      'salvage'	is experimental.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2009-2025 The Bitcoin Core	developers

       Please contribute if you	find Bitcoin Core useful. Visit	 <https://bit-
       coincore.org/>  for further information about the software.  The	source
       code is available from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin>.

       This is experimental software.  Distributed under the MIT software  li-
       cense, see the accompanying file	COPYING	or <https://opensource.org/li-
       censes/MIT>

SEE ALSO
       bitcoind(1), bitcoin-cli(1), bitcoin-tx(1), bitcoin-wallet(1), bitcoin-
       util(1),	bitcoin-qt(1)

bitcoin-wallet v29.1.0		September 2025		     BITCOIN-WALLET(1)

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