Bitcoin Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v1.06, by Herong Yang
"bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress" - Send Bitcoin
This section describes how to sent Bitcoins to another address test transaction on live.blockcypher.com.
With Bitcoin fund in my wallet, I can now send part of it to someone else to my self in another account/address. To send Bitcoins, you can use the "bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress" command.
Here is what did to send 1.0 BTC to my second account in the same wallet.
1. Get a list of my accounts and their balances:
C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli.exe -testnet listaccounts { "": 0.00000000, "Test 1": 0.00000000, "Test 2": 0.00000000, "Used on coinfaucet.eu": 8.71492098 }
2. Get the address of the "Test 2" account:
C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli.exe -testnet getaddressesbyaccount "Test 2" [ "mrThGN62W4noVhUvWUqHXesaMLB79NCEbW", "mrohEM3qNy8eHKTveW6WqBaPghEcVfZzpq" ]
3. Send 1.0 BTC to the first address of "Test 2" account:
C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli.exe -testnet sendtoaddress mrThGN62W4noVhUvWUqHXesaMLB79NCEbW 1.0 error code: -13 error message: Error: Please enter the wallet passphrase with walletpassphrase first. C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli -testnet walletpassphrase xxxxxx 60 C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli.exe -testnet sendtoaddress mrThGN62W4noVhUvWUqHXesaMLB79NCEbW 1.0 155657a1688b7f7ede2041190b055aa7b1ef427bbc343e4ef67342866934407e
4. Check account balances.
C:\>\local\bitcoin-0.15.1\bin\bitcoin-cli.exe -testnet listaccounts { "": -1.00000285, "Test 1": 0.00000000, "Test 2": 1.00000000, "Used on coinfaucet.eu": 8.71492098 }
You can see that, a 0.00000285 BTC transaction fee will be charged to my account.
You can also see that "sendtoaddres" command used my default account "" to provide input fund for the transaction. But my default account "" has no Bitcoins. So I am not sure if this transaction will be confirmed or not.
Wait for some time, and check to see how this transaction gets processed as described in the next tutorial.
Table of Contents
Receive Test Bitcoin from testnet.coinfaucet.eu
View Transaction on live.blockcypher.com
Receive Bitcoin in My Test Wallet
View Bitcoin in My Test Wallet
Bitcoin-Qt New Incoming Transaction Alert
►"bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress" - Send Bitcoin
Trace Back Bitcoin Transaction Outputs