sendtoaddress

sendtoaddress "address" amount ( "comment" "comment_to" subtractfeefromamount replaceable conf_target "estimate_mode" )

Send an amount to a given address.

Argument #1 - address

Type: string, required

The bitcoin address to send to.

Argument #2 - amount

Type: numeric or string, required

The amount in BTC to send. eg 0.1

Argument #3 - comment

Type: string, optional

A comment used to store what the transaction is for.

This is not part of the transaction, just kept in your wallet.

Argument #4 - comment_to

Type: string, optional

A comment to store the name of the person or organization

to which you’re sending the transaction. This is not part of the transaction, just kept in your wallet.

Argument #5 - subtractfeefromamount

Type: boolean, optional, default=false

The fee will be deducted from the amount being sent.

The recipient will receive less bitcoins than you enter in the amount field.

Argument #6 - replaceable

Type: boolean, optional, default=fallback to wallet’s default

Allow this transaction to be replaced by a transaction with higher fees via BIP 125

Argument #7 - conf_target

Type: numeric, optional, default=fallback to wallet’s default

Confirmation target (in blocks)

Argument #8 - estimate_mode

Type: string, optional, default=UNSET

The fee estimate mode, must be one of:

“UNSET” “ECONOMICAL” “CONSERVATIVE”

Result

Name	Type	Description
txid	string	The transaction id.

Examples

bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress "1M72Sfpbz1BPpXFHz9m3CdqATR44Jvaydd" 0.1

bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress "1M72Sfpbz1BPpXFHz9m3CdqATR44Jvaydd" 0.1 "donation" "seans outpost"

bitcoin-cli sendtoaddress "1M72Sfpbz1BPpXFHz9m3CdqATR44Jvaydd" 0.1 "" "" true

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "sendtoaddress", "params": ["1M72Sfpbz1BPpXFHz9m3CdqATR44Jvaydd", 0.1, "donation", "seans outpost"] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/