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Title: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Muhammed Zakir on June 04, 2014, 12:16:50 PM
Hello!
I saw many commands in Bitcoin-qt but I don't know how to use it. Can you explain me how to use it?
I am not telling about the commands we get when we enter 'help' in the console (eg:- importprivkey etc...) , I am telling about the commands we get from click 'Command Options' at the bottom. ( eg:-    -?  )
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: LAMarcellus on June 04, 2014, 12:26:06 PM
I think these are what you're looking for...

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

or
Use bitcoind help to get a list of all RPC commands. Use bitcoind help <command> to get information about RPC command <command>.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13895/where-can-i-get-all-the-commands-with-descriptions-for-bitcoind-on-my-linux-serv


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Muhammed Zakir on June 04, 2014, 01:08:10 PM
Use bitcoind help to get a list of all RPC commands. Use bitcoind help <command> to get information about RPC command <command>.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13895/where-can-i-get-all-the-commands-with-descriptions-for-bitcoind-on-my-linux-serv

Thanks, Sir! But I am using Bitcoin-qt in Windows 7 not Linux.
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: shorena on June 04, 2014, 01:15:40 PM
Use bitcoind help to get a list of all RPC commands. Use bitcoind help <command> to get information about RPC command <command>.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13895/where-can-i-get-all-the-commands-with-descriptions-for-bitcoind-on-my-linux-serv

Thanks, Sir! But I am using Bitcoin-qt in Windows 7 not Linux.
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

What do you want to do? Its hard to help you if we dont know what you want to do.


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Newar on June 04, 2014, 02:18:42 PM
[...]
Thanks, Sir! But I am using Bitcoin-qt in Windows 7 not Linux. [...]

You can use those in Windows via the conf file: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Bitcoin.conf_Configuration_File



Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Muhammed Zakir on June 04, 2014, 03:15:49 PM
You can use those in Windows via the conf file: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Bitcoin.conf_Configuration_File
Thanks! Can you tell me how to do it? I didn't understand how to do it from the link you gave me. I know where should I put the conf file but don't know what should I write inside it.
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: BigMac on June 04, 2014, 03:35:00 PM
You can use those in Windows via the conf file: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Bitcoin.conf_Configuration_File

Apart from setting a config file, you could also use those arguments with windows cmd.


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Newar on June 05, 2014, 08:00:27 AM
Thanks! Can you tell me how to do it? I didn't understand how to do it from the link you gave me. I know where should I put the conf file but don't know what should I write inside it.
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

Sorry, just a quick reply (got to run...), there is a sample .conf file on the same wiki page. Did you have look? You can edit it using notepad for example.

Every line with a # will be ignored. Lines without # will be processed.

Also, as mentioned before, what are you trying to achieve?


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Muhammed Zakir on June 05, 2014, 02:57:43 PM
Sorry, just a quick reply (got to run...), there is a sample .conf file on the same wiki page. Did you have look? You can edit it using notepad for example.

Every line with a # will be ignored. Lines without # will be processed.

Also, as mentioned before, what are you trying to achieve?

Its okay. I want to increase syncing speed with -dbcache ( something like that, I am in other computer, I don't remember the command correctly). Anyway thanks for helping!  :)
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: shorena on June 05, 2014, 03:53:00 PM
Sorry, just a quick reply (got to run...), there is a sample .conf file on the same wiki page. Did you have look? You can edit it using notepad for example.

Every line with a # will be ignored. Lines without # will be processed.

Also, as mentioned before, what are you trying to achieve?

Its okay. I want to increase syncing speed with -dbcache ( something like that, I am in other computer, I don't remember the command correctly). Anyway thanks for helping!  :)
Kindly,
        Muhammed Zakhir

The bottleneck with synching is not your CPU but your bandwith. You can however speed up the starting proccess by lowering checkblocks from 288 to e.g. 100 or even 10.


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Muhammed Zakir on June 05, 2014, 04:20:25 PM
The bottleneck with synching is not your CPU but your bandwith. You can however speed up the starting proccess by lowering checkblocks from 288 to e.g. 100 or even 10.
Thanks! Can you tell me how to do it?
Kindly,
       Muhammed Zakhir


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Newar on June 05, 2014, 04:47:17 PM
The bottleneck with synching is not your CPU but your bandwith. You can however speed up the starting proccess by lowering checkblocks from 288 to e.g. 100 or even 10.
Thanks! Can you tell me how to do it?
Kindly,
       Muhammed Zakhir

And again: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Command-line_arguments

Code:
-checkblocks=<n>       How many blocks to check at startup (default: 288, 0 = all)

Put in the conf file as

Code:
checkblocks=100







Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Muhammed Zakir on June 06, 2014, 12:23:03 PM
The bottleneck with synching is not your CPU but your bandwith. You can however speed up the starting proccess by lowering checkblocks from 288 to e.g. 100 or even 10.
Put in the conf file as
Code:
checkblocks=100
Thanks all! Sorry to disturb you all.
Kindly,
       Muhammed Zakhir


Title: Re: Help Me Using Bitcoin-qt.
Post by: Harley997 on June 09, 2014, 11:27:44 PM
The below site has a list of the commands fo Bitcoin-qt

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list


With that being said, there are other wallets that are more user friendly for people that are not as familiar with Bitcoin

My personal favorites are blockchain.info for webwallets and multibit for software wallets.