Skip to content

validateaddress JSON-RPC command

validateaddress "address"

Return information about the given Bitcoin Cash address.

Arguments

1. "address" (string, required) The Bitcoin Cash address to validate

Result

{ "isvalid" : true|false, (boolean) If the address is valid or not. If not, this is the only property returned. "address" : "address", (string) The Bitcoin Cash address validated "scriptPubKey" : "hex", (string) The hex-encoded scriptPubKey generated by the address "isscript" : true|false, (boolean) If the key is a script "istokenaware" : true|false, (boolean) If this address type signals support for Cash Tokens }

Examples

```

bitcoin-cli validateaddress "1PSSGeFHDnKNxiEyFrD1wcEaHr9hrQDDWc" curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "validateaddress", "params": ["1PSSGeFHDnKNxiEyFrD1wcEaHr9hrQDDWc"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/ ```

Bitcoin Cash Node Daemon version v29.0.1-52516c0

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.