Title: How do you transfer all the funds in a bitcoind wallet via RPC? Post by: s2 on March 01, 2017, 10:14:33 AM I'm curious what the RPC approach is to transfer all the funds in a wallet to an external address but with a reasonable transaction fee?
(This is version 0.13.1 if that matters) E.g. If I have 20,000,000 satoshi balance in the bitcoind controlled wallet and want to transfer as much as possible to a new address but with sufficient fees it's likely to be in the next block, what do I provide to sendToAddress? Title: Re: How do you transfer all the funds in a bitcoind wallet via RPC? Post by: achow101 on March 01, 2017, 02:10:22 PM Run
Code: estimatefee <blocks> Take the result of the estimatefee command above and run Code: settxfee <fee> Then whenever you send using the wallet RPCs in the same session, it will use the fees set by settxfee. Title: Re: How do you transfer all the funds in a bitcoind wallet via RPC? Post by: s2 on March 01, 2017, 06:01:05 PM Many thanks for the reply, I have changed it as you've said and so far so good.
Do you know what happens if you construct a transaction which used loads of inputs therefore requiring a larger fee? (Also has it already been discussed changing the RPC methods to just use satoshis? Having it return floating point bitcoin has already flagged one rounding problem today :) ) Title: Re: How do you transfer all the funds in a bitcoind wallet via RPC? Post by: achow101 on March 01, 2017, 06:07:31 PM Many thanks for the reply, I have changed it as you've said and so far so good. The fee returned by estimatefee and the fee entered into settxfee is actually the fee rate in BTC/kB. So if you have a large transaction, it will pay a higher fee which is still using the fee rate specified in settxfee.Do you know what happens if you construct a transaction which used loads of inputs therefore requiring a larger fee? (Also has it already been discussed changing the RPC methods to just use satoshis? Having it return floating point bitcoin has already flagged one rounding problem today :) ) There is discussion about making it all in satoshis instead of BTC. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9855 and https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9882 |