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dumpprivkey

dumpprivkey "address"

Reveals the private key corresponding to ‘address’.

Then the importprivkey can be used with this output

Argument #1 - address

Type: string, required

The bitgesell address for the private key

Result

NameTypeDescription
strstringThe private key

Example usage (with RPC call)

BGL-cli dumpprivkey "myaddress"
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```sh
BGL-cli importprivkey "mykey"
curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "dumpprivkey", "params": ["myaddress"]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8334/