walletpassphrasechange (wallet command)

Bitcoin Core 25.1 RPC

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

Result

null    (json null)

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/