When I use importmulti with an xprv it never imports the private keys. What am I doing wrong?

When I call:

bitcoin-cli getdescriptorinfo "pkh(tprv8iDvhA6eaMDbRuH3D2DTNuH6N6LvMTVrcv7z6sVxyyYvThSaCSa3i3qFVqUgVL4NbVkACxjx3KPWLoP5jvDU3i16hjTnzEFnZuqsnTJ5F4n/*)"

it returns:

{
  "descriptor": "pkh(tpubDEuxqa8tiiuGKNJq6ft3nJwCw7rrWngmCDimPPYGQFMKJBhLpqPdtYT7fzuDbk1AppxRdYjzeUrLaVNQRP7EYghzLDBMguY2LHHHeHMtzhm/*)#0wkkha79",
  "isrange": true,
  "issolvable": true,
  "hasprivatekeys": true
}

I then call:

bitcoin-cli importmulti '[{ "desc": "pkh(tpubDEuxqa8tiiuGKNJq6ft3nJwCw7rrWngmCDimPPYGQFMKJBhLpqPdtYT7fzuDbk1AppxRdYjzeUrLaVNQRP7EYghzLDBMguY2LHHHeHMtzhm/*)#0wkkha79", "timestamp": "now", "range": 100, "watchonly": false, "label": "Hot Storage", "keypool": false, "rescan": false }]'

It returns:

{
    "success": true,
    "warnings": [
      "Some private keys are missing, outputs will be considered watchonly. If this is intentional, specify the watchonly flag."
    ]
  }

I am importing an xprv because I want to import the private keys, but they always get imported as watch-only.

Why is this? Is it intentional?

Fontaine

Posted 2019-06-18T02:18:33.043

Reputation: 158

Answers

You aren't doing anything wrong. This behavior is expected for Bitcoin Core 0.18. The Pull Request allowing private keys to be derived from descriptors and imported with importmulti was merged recently. This functionality will be included in Bitcoin Core 0.19.

Andrew Chow

Posted 2019-06-18T02:18:33.043

Reputation: 40 910

I am testing this with 0.19.0 rc3 but its still behaving the same way, forcing the wallet to be cold. Any idea why? – Fontaine – 2019-11-18T03:49:25.143

Did you import the descriptor with the tprv of the tpub? getdescriptorinfo returns the descriptor with only pubkeys. To get the checksum for the private key descriptor, check the checksum field and add it to your descriptor. – Andrew Chow – 2019-11-18T16:19:16.653

figured it out thank you!! – Fontaine – 2019-11-24T05:40:06.693