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Assuming that there is a magical mineblocks RPC command that can mine X blocks on demand, what is the complete set of command line commands to start a client, mine my coins to a specific address, see the mined blocks, get the reward and send them to an address XXX?
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Put your client into regtest mode. This allows you to mine an arbitrary amount of blocks very quickly. Add this to your bitcoin.conf
regtest=1
daemon=1
Generate the blocks. Run
bitcoin-cli setgenerate true <number of blocks>
where X is the number of block you want. You'll want at least 101 blocks.
See the mined blocks. Run
bitcoin-cli getblockhash <index>
to get the hash of block number <index>. Then take that hash and run
bitcoin-cli getblock <hash>
Repeat Step 3 for each block you want.
Send the Bitcoins to a new address. Run
bitcoin-cli getbalance
to find out your balance. Run
bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress <address> <amount>
If you don't need to see the contents of the block, you can skip steps 3 and 4.
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setgenerate has been removed. and now you can use generatetoaddress to mine.
# generatetoaddress
generatetoaddress 1 2NDyXhf4i44Vqpy9FvPHXkw8ccA2WtMkTe3
