simulaterawtransaction (wallet command)

Bitcoin Core 26.0 RPC

simulaterawtransaction ( ["rawtx",...] {"include_watchonly":bool,...} )

Calculate the balance change resulting in the signing and broadcasting of the given transaction(s).

Arguments

1. rawtxs          (json array, optional) An array of hex strings of raw transactions.
                   
     [
       "rawtx",    (string)
       ...
     ]
2. options         (json object, optional) Options object that can be used to pass named arguments, listed below.

Named Arguments:
include_watchonly    (boolean, optional, default=true for watch-only wallets, otherwise false) Whether to include watch-only addresses (see RPC importaddress)

Result

{                          (json object)
  "balance_change" : n     (numeric) The wallet balance change (negative means decrease).
}

Examples

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