`monero-wallet-cli` is the wallet software that ships withshipped in the Monero treearchives. It is a console program, and manages an account. While a bitcoin wallet manages both an account and the blockchain, Monero separates these: `monerod` handles the blockchain, and `monero-wallet-cli` handles the account.
`monero-wallet-cli` is the wallet software shipped in the Monero archives. It is a console program, and manages an account. While a bitcoin wallet manages both an account and the blockchain, Monero separates these: `monerod` handles the blockchain, and `monero-wallet-cli` handles the account.
This guide will show how to perform various operations fromwithe `monero-wallet-cli`UI. The guide assumes you are using the most recent version of Monero and have already created an account according to the other guides.
This guide will show how to perform various operations with `monero-wallet-cli`. The guide assumes you are using the most recent version of Monero and have already created an account according to the other guides.
In this example, you're viewing the balance of your primary account (with index `[0]`). `Balance` is your total balance. The `unlocked balance` is the amount currently available to spend. Newly received transactions require 10 confirmations on the blockchain before being unlocked.`unlocked dust` refers to very small amounts of unspent outputs that may have accumulated in your account.
In this example you're viewing the balance of your primary account (with index `[0]`). `Balance` is your total balance. The `unlocked balance` is the amount currently available to spend. Newly received transactions require 10 confirmations on the blockchain before being unlocked.
Since Monero is anonymous, you won't see the origin address the funds you receive came from. If you want to know, for instance to credit a particular customer, you'll have to tell the sender to use a payment ID, which is an arbitrary optional tag which gets attached to a transaction. To make life easier,It's not possible to use standalone payment addresses, but you can generate an address that already includes a random payment ID (integrated addresss) using `integrated_address`:
Since Monero is anonymous, you won't see the origin address the funds you receive came from. If you want to know, for instance to credit a particular customer, you'll have to tell the sender to use a payment ID, which is an arbitrary optional tag which gets attached to a transaction. It's not possible to use standalone payment addresses, but you can generate an address that already includes a random payment ID (integrated addresss) using `integrated_address`:
This will generate a random payment ID, and give you the address that includes your own account and that payment ID. If you want to select a particular payment ID, you can do that too. Use:
This will generate a random payment ID, and give you the address that includes your own account and that payment ID. If you want to select a particular payment ID, you can do that too. Use:
Payments made to an integrated address generated from your account will go to your account, with that payment idID attached, so you can tell payments apart.
Payments made to an integrated address generated from your account will go to your account, with that payment ID attached, so you can tell payments apart.
Replace `TXID`, `TXKEY` and `ADDRESS` with the transaction ID, per-transaction key, and destination address which were supplied to you, respectively. `monero-wallet-cli` will check that transaction and let you know how much monero this transaction paid to the given address.
Replace `TXID`, `TXKEY` and `ADDRESS` with the transaction ID, per-transaction key, and destination address which were supplied to you, respectively. `monero-wallet-cli` will check that transaction and let you know how much monero this transaction paid to the given address.
