Node Operations Articles

Bitcoin Core 0.16 getaccount guide covering deprecated address labels, wallet scope, empty accounts, ownership limits, migrations and verification.

Bitcoin Core generatetoaddress RPC made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.

Bitcoin Core 0.16 generate guide covering wallet-address block rewards, synchronous block attempts, maxtries, regtest use, maturity and safe testing.

Bitcoin Core fundrawtransaction guide covering wallet input selection, change, fee subtraction, watch-only scripts, RBF, locking and final review.

Bitcoin Core estimatesmartfee guide covering confirmation targets, economical and conservative modes, BTC/kB units, clamping, errors and safe fallbacks.

Bitcoin Core 0.16 estimatefee guide covering deprecated BTC-per-kilobyte results, virtual size, negative sentinel values, target limits and fallbacks.

Bitcoin Core encryptwallet RPC made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.

Bitcoin Core dumpwallet guide covering server-side files, no-overwrite behaviour, imported keys and scripts, Bech32 recovery gaps, encryption and restore tests.

Bitcoin Core dumpprivkey guide covering address ownership, wallet unlock, secret exposure, secure transfer, import limits, rotation and recovery testing.

Bitcoin Core disconnectnode guide covering address and node-ID targeting, immediate scope, reconnection, addnode interactions, monitoring and access control.

Bitcoin Core decodescript RPC made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.

Bitcoin Core decoderawtransaction guide covering witness decoding, txid and wtxid, size and vsize, inputs, outputs, scripts and validation limits.