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walletpassphrasechange JSON-RPC command

walletpassphrasechange "oldpassphrase" "newpassphrase"

Changes the wallet passphrase from 'oldpassphrase' to 'newpassphrase'.

Arguments

1. "oldpassphrase"    (string, required) The current passphrase
2. "newpassphrase"    (string, required) The new passphrase

Examples

> bitcoin-cli walletpassphrasechange "old one" "new one"
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "walletpassphrasechange", "params": ["old one", "new one"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Bitcoin Cash Node Daemon version v27.1.1-1ce1d89

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