bitcoin cli – Import data to a non-watch-only wallet

adminApril 23, 2024

I plan to use the private key, address, and public address I created myself. (For educational purposes).

I’m working with bitcoin-cli by inserting input I created myself. (from CMD)

The following code:

C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon>bitcoin-cli -regtest -named -rpcwallet="legacy" importmulti "(\"scriptPubKey\":\"address\":\"<my P2PKH address>\",\"timestamp\":\"now\",\"pubkeys\":(\"<my compressed public address in hex format>\"),\"keys\":(\"<my private key in WIF format>\"))" "\"rescan\":false"

It returns the following output:

(
  
    "success": true,
    "warnings": (
      "Some private keys are missing, outputs will be considered watchonly. If this is intentional, specify the watchonly flag.",
      "Importing as non-solvable: some required keys are missing. If this is intentional, don't provide any keys, pubkeys, witnessscript, or redeemscript."
    )
  
)

But I don’t know which key is missing because I generated everything based on the same key (the order in which I generated the data:

seed
master key
Derivation of subkeys – From now on we will only use subkeys.
Public key based on subkey
P2PKH address based on public key
I copied the subkey, public key, and P2PKH values and entered them in the correct locations in the template I added above.)

Is this because I only use subkeys and not the master key? How do I prevent this data from being imported for view-only use? My main goal is to do most of the functionality myself with minimal calls.

All code to generate data has already been checked and is working exceptionally (Python code can be provided).
We want to use import so that we can use this data in registration test mode for transactions.

Thank you in advance!

adminApril 23, 2024