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verifymessage JSON-RPC command

verifymessage "address" "signature" "message"

Verify a signed message

Arguments

1. "address" (string, required) The Bitcoin Cash address to use for the signature. 2. "signature" (string, required) The signature provided by the signer in base 64 encoding (see signmessage). 3. "message" (string, required) The message that was signed.

Result

true|false (boolean) If the signature is verified or not.

Examples

``` Unlock the wallet for 30 seconds

bitcoin-cli walletpassphrase "mypassphrase" 30

Create the signature

bitcoin-cli signmessage "1D1ZrZNe3JUo7ZycKEYQQiQAWd9y54F4XX" "my message"

Verify the signature

bitcoin-cli verifymessage "1D1ZrZNe3JUo7ZycKEYQQiQAWd9y54F4XX" "signature" "my message"

As a JSON-RPC call

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "verifymessage", "params": ["1D1ZrZNe3JUo7ZycKEYQQiQAWd9y54F4XX", "signature", "my message"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/ ```

Bitcoin Cash Node Daemon version v29.0.1-71febb2

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.