bitcoind: How to generate new address and broadcast?

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I have my own server running bitcoind. Could you tell me how to generate new bitcoin address, sign and broadcast? My goal is that I can see the generated address's balance on Blockchain.info. As for you, my question may be very easy but I am looking for the way for a long time...

bitcoind's version is 0.9.2.

$ bitcoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 90200,
    "protocolversion" : 70002,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 335538,
    "timeoffset" : -1,
    "connections" : 21,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 39457671307.13873291,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1418654127,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "relayfee" : 0.00001000,
    "errors" : ""
}

zono

Posted 2014-12-23T14:56:03.800

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Answers

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You don't have any bitcoins, so you can't create, sign, and broadcast a transaction.

As for generating a new address, use the getnewaddress RPC. It will give you an address you can give someone else to send you bitcoins. Once you have bitcoins, you can create and broadcast a transaction in one step using either the sendtoaddress RPC or the sendmany RPC.

Use help getnewaddress, help sendtoaddress, and help sendmany to learn more about each RPC.

David A. Harding

Posted 2014-12-23T14:56:03.800

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Thank you. I run "bitcoind getnewaddress" and I can see the address on blockchain.info. I thought that I had to broadcast the transaction of created new address.. but it seems not be necessary. Now I'm checking out "sendtoaddress" – zono – 2014-12-23T15:19:27.950

I could send btc by using "sendtoaddress". The command seems to include sign and broadcast. Thanks – zono – 2014-12-23T16:38:40.820

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