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Mastering Blockchain.. - Third Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Blockchain.. - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213199
Pages 816 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Imran Bashir Imran Bashir
Profile icon Imran Bashir

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Blockchain 101 2. Decentralization 3. Symmetric Cryptography 4. Public Key Cryptography 5. Consensus Algorithms 6. Introducing Bitcoin 7. The Bitcoin Network and Payments 8. Bitcoin Clients and APIs 9. Alternative Coins 10. Smart Contracts 11. Ethereum 101 12. Further Ethereum 13. Ethereum Development Environment 14. Development Tools and Frameworks 15. Introducing Web3 16. Serenity 17. Hyperledger 18. Tokenization 19. Blockchain – Outside of Currencies 20. Enterprise Blockchain 21. Scalability and Other Challenges 22. Current Landscape and What's Next 23. Index

Experimenting further with bitcoin-cli

As we've seen so far, bitcoin-cli is a powerful and feature-rich command-line interface available with the Bitcoin Core client and can be used to perform various functions using the RPC interface provided by the Bitcoin Core client.

We will now see how to send Bitcoin to an address using the command line. For this, we will use the Bitcoin command-line interface on the Bitcoin regtest:

  1. Generate a new address using the following command:
    $ bitcoin-cli -regtest getnewaddress
    2NC31WFFRwRkwd3S4TpyjN5GGDY7E63GSVd
    
  2. Send 20 BTC to the newly generated address:
    $ bitcoin-cli -regtest sendtoaddress \ 2NC31WFFRwRkwd3S4TpyjN5GGDY7E63GSVd 20.00
    

    The output of this command will show the transaction ID, which is:

    a83ff460a32f29387d531f19e7092a5dcf6ce52d20931227447c0b9b7a5f2980
    
  3. We can now generate a few more blocks to get some confirmation for this:
    $ bitcoin-cli -regtest...
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