settxfee (wallet command)

Bitcoin Core 26.1 RPC

settxfee amount

Set the transaction fee rate in BTC/kvB for this wallet. Overrides the global -paytxfee command line parameter.

Can be deactivated by passing 0 as the fee. In that case automatic fee selection will be used by default.

Arguments

1. amount    (numeric or string, required) The transaction fee rate in BTC/kvB

Result

true|false    (boolean) Returns true if successful

Examples

> bitcoin-cli settxfee 0.00001
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "settxfee", "params": [0.00001]}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/