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sendrawtransaction JSON-RPC command

sendrawtransaction "hexstring" ( allowhighfees )

Submits raw transaction (serialized, hex-encoded) to local node and network.

Also see createrawtransaction and signrawtransactionwithkey calls.

Arguments

1. "hexstring"      (string, required) The hex string of the raw transaction
2. allowhighfees    (boolean, optional, default=false) Allow high fees

Result

"hex"             (string) The transaction hash in hex

Examples

Create a transaction
> bitcoin-cli createrawtransaction "[{\"txid\" : \"mytxid\",\"vout\":0}]" "{\"myaddress\":0.01}"
Sign the transaction, and get back the hex
> bitcoin-cli signrawtransactionwithwallet "myhex"

Send the transaction (signed hex)
> bitcoin-cli sendrawtransaction "signedhex"

As a JSON-RPC call
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "sendrawtransaction", "params": ["signedhex"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Bitcoin Cash Node Daemon version v28.0.1-4b729ce

Documentation on docs.bitcoincashnode.org reflects the current master branch in Git, and may include API changes that are not yet present in the latest release.