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It was generated by help2man 1.48.3. .TH DASHD "1" "May 2021" "dashd v0.17.0.1" "User Commands" .SH NAME dashd \- manual page for dashd v0.17.0.1 .SH DESCRIPTION Dash Core Daemon version v0.17.0.1 .SS "Usage:" .TP dashd [options] Start Dash Core Daemon .SH OPTIONS .HP \-? .IP Print this help message and exit .HP \fB\-alertnotify=\fR .IP Execute command when a relevant alert is received or we see a really long fork (%s in cmd is replaced by message) .HP \fB\-assumevalid=\fR .IP If this block is in the chain assume that it and its ancestors are valid and potentially skip their script verification (0 to verify all, default: 00000000000000105cfae44a995332d8ec256850ea33a1f7b700474e3dad82bc, testnet: 0000009303aeadf8cf3812f5c869691dbd4cb118ad20e9bf553be434bafe6a52) .HP \fB\-blocknotify=\fR .IP Execute command when the best block changes (%s in cmd is replaced by block hash) .HP \fB\-blockreconstructionextratxn=\fR .IP Extra transactions to keep in memory for compact block reconstructions (default: 100) .HP \fB\-blocksdir=\fR .IP Specify blocks directory (default: /blocks) .HP \fB\-conf=\fR .IP Specify configuration file. Relative paths will be prefixed by datadir location. (default: dash.conf) .HP \fB\-daemon\fR .IP Run in the background as a daemon and accept commands .HP \fB\-datadir=\fR .IP Specify data directory .HP \fB\-dbcache=\fR .IP Set database cache size in megabytes (4 to 16384, default: 300) .HP \fB\-debuglogfile=\fR .IP Specify location of debug log file. Relative paths will be prefixed by a net\-specific datadir location. (0 to disable; default: debug.log) .HP \fB\-loadblock=\fR .IP Imports blocks from external blk000??.dat file on startup .HP \fB\-maxmempool=\fR .IP Keep the transaction memory pool below megabytes (default: 300) .HP \fB\-maxorphantxsize=\fR .IP Maximum total size of all orphan transactions in megabytes (default: 10) .HP \fB\-maxrecsigsage=\fR .IP Number of seconds to keep LLMQ recovery sigs (default: 604800) .HP \fB\-mempoolexpiry=\fR .IP Do not keep transactions in the mempool longer than hours (default: 336) .HP \fB\-par=\fR .IP Set the number of script verification threads (\fB\-4\fR to 16, 0 = auto, <0 = leave that many cores free, default: 0) .HP \fB\-persistmempool\fR .IP Whether to save the mempool on shutdown and load on restart (default: 1) .HP \fB\-pid=\fR .IP Specify pid file. Relative paths will be prefixed by a net\-specific datadir location. (default: dashd.pid) .HP \fB\-prune=\fR .IP Reduce storage requirements by enabling pruning (deleting) of old blocks. This allows the pruneblockchain RPC to be called to delete specific blocks, and enables automatic pruning of old blocks if a target size in MiB is provided. This mode is incompatible with \fB\-txindex\fR, \fB\-rescan\fR and \fB\-disablegovernance\fR=\fI\,false\/\fR. Warning: Reverting this setting requires re\-downloading the entire blockchain. (default: 0 = disable pruning blocks, 1 = allow manual pruning via RPC, >945 = automatically prune block files to stay under the specified target size in MiB) .HP \fB\-syncmempool\fR .IP Sync mempool from other nodes on start (default: 1) .HP \fB\-sysperms\fR .IP Create new files with system default permissions, instead of umask 077 (only effective with disabled wallet functionality) .HP \fB\-version\fR .IP Print version and exit .PP Connection options: .HP \fB\-addnode=\fR .IP Add a node to connect to and attempt to keep the connection open (see the `addnode` RPC command help for more info). This option can be specified multiple times to add multiple nodes. .HP \fB\-allowprivatenet\fR .IP Allow RFC1918 addresses to be relayed and connected to (default: 0) .HP \fB\-banscore=\fR .IP Threshold for disconnecting misbehaving peers (default: 100) .HP \fB\-bantime=\fR .IP Number of seconds to keep misbehaving peers from reconnecting (default: 86400) .HP \fB\-bind=\fR .IP Bind to given address and always listen on it. Use [host]:port notation for IPv6 .HP \fB\-connect=\fR .IP Connect only to the specified node; \fB\-connect\fR=\fI\,0\/\fR disables automatic connections (the rules for this peer are the same as for \fB\-addnode\fR). This option can be specified multiple times to connect to multiple nodes. .HP \fB\-discover\fR .IP Discover own IP addresses (default: 1 when listening and no \fB\-externalip\fR or \fB\-proxy\fR) .HP \fB\-dns\fR .IP Allow DNS lookups for \fB\-addnode\fR, \fB\-seednode\fR and \fB\-connect\fR (default: 1) .HP \fB\-dnsseed\fR .IP Query for peer addresses via DNS lookup, if low on addresses (default: 1 unless \fB\-connect\fR used) .HP \fB\-enablebip61\fR .IP Send reject messages per BIP61 (default: 1) .HP \fB\-externalip=\fR .IP Specify your own public address .HP \fB\-forcednsseed\fR .IP Always query for peer addresses via DNS lookup (default: 0) .HP \fB\-listen\fR .IP Accept connections from outside (default: 1 if no \fB\-proxy\fR or \fB\-connect\fR) .HP \fB\-listenonion\fR .IP Automatically create Tor hidden service (default: 1) .HP \fB\-maxconnections=\fR .IP Maintain at most connections to peers (temporary service connections excluded) (default: 125) .HP \fB\-maxreceivebuffer=\fR .IP Maximum per\-connection receive buffer, *1000 bytes (default: 5000) .HP \fB\-maxsendbuffer=\fR .IP Maximum per\-connection send buffer, *1000 bytes (default: 1000) .HP \fB\-maxtimeadjustment\fR .IP Maximum allowed median peer time offset adjustment. Local perspective of time may be influenced by peers forward or backward by this amount. (default: 4200 seconds) .HP \fB\-maxuploadtarget=\fR .IP Tries to keep outbound traffic under the given target (in MiB per 24h), 0 = no limit (default: 0) .HP \fB\-onion=\fR .IP Use separate SOCKS5 proxy to reach peers via Tor hidden services (default: \fB\-proxy\fR) .HP \fB\-onlynet=\fR .IP Make outgoing connections only through network (ipv4, ipv6 or onion). Incoming connections are not affected by this option. This option can be specified multiple times to allow multiple networks. .HP \fB\-peerbloomfilters\fR .IP Support filtering of blocks and transaction with bloom filters (default: 1) .HP \fB\-peertimeout=\fR .IP Specify p2p connection timeout in seconds. This option determines the amount of time a peer may be inactive before the connection to it is dropped. (minimum: 1, default: 60) .HP \fB\-permitbaremultisig\fR .IP Relay non\-P2SH multisig (default: 1) .HP \fB\-port=\fR .IP Listen for connections on (default: 9999 or testnet: 19999) .HP \fB\-proxy=\fR .IP Connect through SOCKS5 proxy .HP \fB\-proxyrandomize\fR .IP Randomize credentials for every proxy connection. This enables Tor stream isolation (default: 1) .HP \fB\-seednode=\fR .IP Connect to a node to retrieve peer addresses, and disconnect. This option can be specified multiple times to connect to multiple nodes. .HP \fB\-socketevents=\fR .IP Socket events mode, which must be one of 'select', 'poll', 'epoll' or \&'kqueue', depending on your system (default: Linux \- 'epoll', FreeBSD/Apple \- 'kqueue', Windows \- 'select') .HP \fB\-timeout=\fR .IP Specify connection timeout in milliseconds (minimum: 1, default: 5000) .HP \fB\-torcontrol=\fR: .IP Tor control port to use if onion listening enabled (default: 127.0.0.1:9051) .HP \fB\-torpassword=\fR .IP Tor control port password (default: empty) .HP \fB\-upnp\fR .IP Use UPnP to map the listening port (default: 0) .HP \fB\-whitebind=\fR .IP Bind to given address and whitelist peers connecting to it. Use [host]:port notation for IPv6 .HP \fB\-whitelist=\fR .IP Whitelist peers connecting from the given IP address (e.g. 1.2.3.4) or CIDR notated network (e.g. 1.2.3.0/24). Can be specified multiple times. Whitelisted peers cannot be DoS banned and their transactions are always relayed, even if they are already in the mempool, useful e.g. for a gateway .PP Indexing options: .HP \fB\-addressindex\fR .IP Maintain a full address index, used to query for the balance, txids and unspent outputs for addresses (default: 0) .HP \fB\-reindex\fR .IP Rebuild chain state and block index from the blk*.dat files on disk .HP \fB\-reindex\-chainstate\fR .IP Rebuild chain state from the currently indexed blocks .HP \fB\-spentindex\fR .IP Maintain a full spent index, used to query the spending txid and input index for an outpoint (default: 0) .HP \fB\-timestampindex\fR .IP Maintain a timestamp index for block hashes, used to query blocks hashes by a range of timestamps (default: 0) .HP \fB\-txindex\fR .IP Maintain a full transaction index, used by the getrawtransaction rpc call (default: 1) .PP Masternode options: .HP \fB\-llmq\-data\-recovery=\fR .IP Enable automated quorum data recovery (default: 1) .HP \fB\-llmq\-qvvec\-sync=\fR: .IP Defines from which LLMQ type the masternode should sync quorum verification vectors. Can be used multiple times with different LLMQ types. : 0 (sync always from all quorums of the type defined by ), 1 (sync from all quorums of the type defined by if a member of any of the quorums) .HP \fB\-masternodeblsprivkey=\fR .IP Set the masternode BLS private key and enable the client to act as a masternode .HP \fB\-platform\-user=\fR .IP Set the username for the "platform user", a restricted user intended to be used by Dash Platform, to the specified username. .PP Statsd options: .HP \fB\-statsenabled\fR .IP Publish internal stats to statsd (default: 0) .HP \fB\-statshost=\fR .IP Specify statsd host (default: 127.0.0.1) .HP \fB\-statshostname=\fR .IP Specify statsd host name (default: ) .HP \fB\-statsns=\fR .IP Specify additional namespace prefix (default: ) .HP \fB\-statsperiod=\fR .IP Specify the number of seconds between periodic measurements (default: 60) .HP \fB\-statsport=\fR .IP Specify statsd port (default: 8125) .PP Wallet options: .HP \fB\-createwalletbackups=\fR .IP Number of automatic wallet backups (default: 10) .HP \fB\-disablewallet\fR .IP Do not load the wallet and disable wallet RPC calls .HP \fB\-instantsendnotify=\fR .IP Execute command when a wallet InstantSend transaction is successfully locked (%s in cmd is replaced by TxID) .HP \fB\-keypool=\fR .IP Set key pool size to (default: 1000) .HP \fB\-rescan=\fR .IP Rescan the block chain for missing wallet transactions on startup (1 = start from wallet creation time, 2 = start from genesis block) .HP \fB\-salvagewallet\fR .IP Attempt to recover private keys from a corrupt wallet on startup .HP \fB\-spendzeroconfchange\fR .IP Spend unconfirmed change when sending transactions (default: 1) .HP \fB\-upgradewallet\fR .IP Upgrade wallet to latest format on startup .HP \fB\-wallet=\fR .IP Specify wallet database path. Can be specified multiple times to load multiple wallets. Path is interpreted relative to if it is not absolute, and will be created if it does not exist (as a directory containing a wallet.dat file and log files). For backwards compatibility this will also accept names of existing data files in .) .HP \fB\-walletbackupsdir=\fR .IP Specify full path to directory for automatic wallet backups (must exist) .HP \fB\-walletbroadcast\fR .IP Make the wallet broadcast transactions (default: 1) .HP \fB\-walletdir=\fR .IP Specify directory to hold wallets (default: /wallets if it exists, otherwise ) .HP \fB\-walletnotify=\fR .IP Execute command when a wallet transaction changes (%s in cmd is replaced by TxID) .HP \fB\-zapwallettxes=\fR .IP Delete all wallet transactions and only recover those parts of the blockchain through \fB\-rescan\fR on startup (1 = keep tx meta data e.g. account owner and payment request information, 2 = drop tx meta data) .HP \fB\-discardfee=\fR .IP The fee rate (in DASH/kB) that indicates your tolerance for discarding change by adding it to the fee (default: 0.0001). Note: An output is discarded if it is dust at this rate, but we will always discard up to the dust relay fee and a discard fee above that is limited by the fee estimate for the longest target .HP \fB\-fallbackfee=\fR .IP A fee rate (in DASH/kB) that will be used when fee estimation has insufficient data (default: 0.00001) .HP \fB\-mintxfee=\fR .IP Fees (in DASH/kB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for transaction creation (default: 0.00001) .HP \fB\-paytxfee=\fR .IP Fee (in DASH/kB) to add to transactions you send (default: 0.00) .HP \fB\-txconfirmtarget=\fR .IP If paytxfee is not set, include enough fee so transactions begin confirmation on average within n blocks (default: 6) .HP \fB\-hdseed=\fR .IP User defined seed for HD wallet (should be in hex). Only has effect during wallet creation/first start (default: randomly generated) .HP \fB\-mnemonic=\fR .IP User defined mnemonic for HD wallet (bip39). Only has effect during wallet creation/first start (default: randomly generated) .HP \fB\-mnemonicpassphrase=\fR .IP User defined mnemonic passphrase for HD wallet (BIP39). Only has effect during wallet creation/first start (default: empty string) .HP \fB\-usehd\fR .IP Use hierarchical deterministic key generation (HD) after BIP39/BIP44. Only has effect during wallet creation/first start (default: 0) .HP \fB\-keepass\fR .IP Use KeePass 2 integration using KeePassHttp plugin (default: 0) .HP \fB\-keepassid=\fR .IP KeePassHttp id for the established association .HP \fB\-keepasskey=\fR .IP KeePassHttp key for AES encrypted communication with KeePass .HP \fB\-keepassname=\fR .IP Name to construct url for KeePass entry that stores the wallet passphrase .HP \fB\-keepassport=\fR .IP Connect to KeePassHttp on port (default: 19455) .HP \fB\-coinjoinamount=\fR .IP Target CoinJoin balance (2\-21000000, default: 1000) .HP \fB\-coinjoinautostart\fR .IP Start CoinJoin automatically (0\-1, default: 0) .HP \fB\-coinjoindenomsgoal=\fR .IP Try to create at least N inputs of each denominated amount (10\-100000, default: 50) .HP \fB\-coinjoindenomshardcap=\fR .IP Create up to N inputs of each denominated amount (10\-100000, default: 300) .HP \fB\-coinjoinmultisession\fR .IP Enable multiple CoinJoin mixing sessions per block, experimental (0\-1, default: 0) .HP \fB\-coinjoinrounds=\fR .IP Use N separate masternodes for each denominated input to mix funds (2\-16, default: 4) .HP \fB\-coinjoinsessions=\fR .IP Use N separate masternodes in parallel to mix funds (1\-10, default: 4) .HP \fB\-enablecoinjoin\fR .IP Enable use of CoinJoin for funds stored in this wallet (0\-1, default: 0) .PP ZeroMQ notification options: .HP \fB\-zmqpubhashblock=\fR
.IP Enable publish hash block in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubhashgovernanceobject=\fR
.IP Enable publish hash of governance objects (like proposals) in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubhashgovernancevote=\fR
.IP Enable publish hash of governance votes in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubhashinstantsenddoublespend=\fR
.IP Enable publish transaction hashes of attempted InstantSend double spend in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubhashrecoveredsig=\fR
.IP Enable publish message hash of recovered signatures (recovered by LLMQs) in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubhashtx=\fR
.IP Enable publish hash transaction in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubhashtxlock=\fR
.IP Enable publish hash transaction (locked via InstantSend) in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubrawblock=\fR
.IP Enable publish raw block in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubrawinstantsenddoublespend=\fR
.IP Enable publish raw transactions of attempted InstantSend double spend in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubrawrecoveredsig=\fR
.IP Enable publish raw recovered signatures (recovered by LLMQs) in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubrawtx=\fR
.IP Enable publish raw transaction in
.HP \fB\-zmqpubrawtxlock=\fR
.IP Enable publish raw transaction (locked via InstantSend) in
.PP Debugging/Testing options: .HP \fB\-debug=\fR .IP Output debugging information (default: 0, supplying is optional). If is not supplied or if = 1, output all debugging information. can be: net, tor, mempool, http, bench, zmq, db, rpc, estimatefee, addrman, selectcoins, reindex, cmpctblock, rand, prune, proxy, mempoolrej, libevent, coindb, qt, leveldb, chainlocks, gobject, instantsend, keepass, llmq, llmq\-dkg, llmq\-sigs, mnpayments, mnsync, coinjoin, spork, netconn. .HP \fB\-debugexclude=\fR .IP Exclude debugging information for a category. Can be used in conjunction with \fB\-debug\fR=\fI\,1\/\fR to output debug logs for all categories except one or more specified categories. .HP \fB\-disablegovernance\fR .IP Disable governance validation (0\-1, default: 0) .HP \fB\-help\-debug\fR .IP Show all debugging options (usage: \fB\-\-help\fR \fB\-help\-debug\fR) .HP \fB\-highsubsidyblocks=\fR .IP The number of blocks with a higher than normal subsidy to mine at the start of a devnet (default: 0) .HP \fB\-highsubsidyfactor=\fR .IP The factor to multiply the normal block subsidy by while in the highsubsidyblocks window of a devnet (default: 1) .HP \fB\-llmqchainlocks=\fR .IP Override the default LLMQ type used for ChainLocks on a devnet. Allows using ChainLocks with smaller LLMQs. (default: llmq_50_60) .HP \fB\-llmqdevnetparams=\fR .IP Override the default LLMQ size for the LLMQ_DEVNET quorum (default: 10:6) .HP \fB\-llmqinstantsend=\fR .IP Override the default LLMQ type used for InstantSend on a devnet. Allows using InstantSend with smaller LLMQs. (default: llmq_50_60) .HP \fB\-llmqtestparams=\fR .IP Override the default LLMQ size for the LLMQ_TEST quorum (default: 3:2) .HP \fB\-logips\fR .IP Include IP addresses in debug output (default: 0) .HP \fB\-logtimestamps\fR .IP Prepend debug output with timestamp (default: 1) .HP \fB\-maxtxfee=\fR .IP Maximum total fees (in DASH) to use in a single wallet transaction or raw transaction; setting this too low may abort large transactions (default: 0.10) .HP \fB\-minimumdifficultyblocks=\fR .IP The number of blocks that can be mined with the minimum difficulty at the start of a devnet (default: 0) .HP \fB\-minsporkkeys=\fR .IP Overrides minimum spork signers to change spork value. Only useful for regtest and devnet. Using this on mainnet or testnet will ban you. .HP \fB\-printtoconsole\fR .IP Send trace/debug info to console instead of debug.log file .HP \fB\-shrinkdebugfile\fR .IP Shrink debug.log file on client startup (default: 1 when no \fB\-debug\fR) .HP \fB\-sporkaddr=\fR .IP Override spork address. Only useful for regtest and devnet. Using this on mainnet or testnet will ban you. .HP \fB\-sporkkey=\fR .IP Set the private key to be used for signing spork messages. .HP \fB\-uacomment=\fR .IP Append comment to the user agent string .PP Chain selection options: .HP \fB\-devnet=\fR .IP Use devnet chain with provided name .HP \fB\-testnet\fR .IP Use the test chain .PP Node relay options: .HP \fB\-bytespersigop\fR .IP Minimum bytes per sigop in transactions we relay and mine (default: 20) .HP \fB\-datacarrier\fR .IP Relay and mine data carrier transactions (default: 1) .HP \fB\-datacarriersize\fR .IP Maximum size of data in data carrier transactions we relay and mine (default: 83) .HP \fB\-minrelaytxfee=\fR .IP Fees (in DASH/kB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for relaying, mining and transaction creation (default: 0.00001) .HP \fB\-whitelistforcerelay\fR .IP Force relay of transactions from whitelisted peers even if they violate local relay policy (default: 1) .HP \fB\-whitelistrelay\fR .IP Accept relayed transactions received from whitelisted peers even when not relaying transactions (default: 1) .PP Block creation options: .HP \fB\-blockmaxsize=\fR .IP Set maximum block size in bytes (default: 2000000) .HP \fB\-blockmintxfee=\fR .IP Set lowest fee rate (in DASH/kB) for transactions to be included in block creation. (default: 0.00001) .PP RPC server options: .HP \fB\-rest\fR .IP Accept public REST requests (default: 0) .HP \fB\-rpcallowip=\fR .IP Allow JSON\-RPC connections from specified source. Valid for are a single IP (e.g. 1.2.3.4), a network/netmask (e.g. 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0) or a network/CIDR (e.g. 1.2.3.4/24). This option can be specified multiple times .HP \fB\-rpcauth=\fR .IP Username and hashed password for JSON\-RPC connections. The field comes in the format: :$. A canonical python script is included in share/rpcuser. The client then connects normally using the rpcuser=/rpcpassword= pair of arguments. This option can be specified multiple times .HP \fB\-rpcbind=\fR[:port] .IP Bind to given address to listen for JSON\-RPC connections. Do not expose the RPC server to untrusted networks such as the public internet! This option is ignored unless \fB\-rpcallowip\fR is also passed. Port is optional and overrides \fB\-rpcport\fR. Use [host]:port notation for IPv6. This option can be specified multiple times (default: 127.0.0.1 and ::1 i.e., localhost, or if \fB\-rpcallowip\fR has been specified, 0.0.0.0 and :: i.e., all addresses) .HP \fB\-rpccookiefile=\fR .IP Location of the auth cookie. Relative paths will be prefixed by a net\-specific datadir location. (default: data dir) .HP \fB\-rpcpassword=\fR .IP Password for JSON\-RPC connections .HP \fB\-rpcport=\fR .IP Listen for JSON\-RPC connections on (default: 9998 or testnet: 19998) .HP \fB\-rpcthreads=\fR .IP Set the number of threads to service RPC calls (default: 4) .HP \fB\-rpcuser=\fR .IP Username for JSON\-RPC connections .HP \fB\-server\fR .IP Accept command line and JSON\-RPC commands .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2014-2021 The Dash Core developers Copyright (C) 2009-2021 The Bitcoin Core developers Please contribute if you find Dash Core useful. Visit for further information about the software. The source code is available from . This is experimental software. Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit and cryptographic software written by Eric Young and UPnP software written by Thomas Bernard.