Receiving Addresses with Bitcoin-CLI

Bitcoin-CLI is a command-line interface for managing and interacting with the Bitcoin network. While it is primarily designed to transfer funds, it also provides various tools for managing private keys and viewing receiving addresses. However, one key feature that Bitcoin-CLI lacked is a simple way to list all receiving addresses.

In this article, we will learn how to use bitcoin-cli to view and manage receiving addresses in a similar way to Bitcoin-Qt.

Receiving Addresses in Bitcoin-QL

The bitcoin-ql command allows you to query various aspects of your Bitcoin wallet. Unfortunately, it does not provide a direct interface to view receiving addresses. However, we can still use bitcoin-cli to list all addresses associated with a given private key or network.

To view receiving addresses using bitcoin-cli, follow these steps:

• Open a terminal and install bitcoin-cli if you haven’t already.

• Navigate to your Bitcoin wallet directory (e.g. /path/to/wallet/directory).

• List all transactions on the network using the following command:

bitcoin-ql --txlist 

Replace with the private key of the address for which you want to view receiving addresses.

For example, if you have a private key Ledger:0x1234567890123456, you can list all transactions on the network using:

bitcoin-ql --txlist Ledger:0x1234567890123456

This will display a long list of transactions. Each transaction is represented as a JSON object, with fields such as outpoint, previoushash, and height.

Filtering Transactions by Receiving Address

To restrict the list of transactions to those that involve a specific receiving address, you can use the following command:

bitcoin-ql --txlist Ledger:0x1234567890123456 --address 0x... --filter 'outpoint=0x...'

Replace with your private key and

bitcoin-ql --txlist Ledger:0x234567890123456 --address 0x... --filter 'outpoint=0x...'

bitcoin-ql --txlist Ledger:0x1234567890123456,0x234567890123456 --address 0x... --filter 'outpoint=0x...'