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An overview of wallets in bitcoind with bitcoin-cli
// This walkthrough assumes you have successfully downloaded bitcoind and connected to bitcoind daemon
// First we create a wallet backup file and then restore the wallet from the backup file
// Use the backupwallet command to back up your wallet with the filename as the parameter
// Here the wallet is backed up to the file wallet.backup
bitcoin-cli backupwallet wallet.backup
// Now you can import the backup file
bitcoin-cli importwallet wallet.backup
// You can convert the wallet into a text file that is human readable
// you need to first decrypt your wallet using the decryptwallet function
bitcoin-cli dumpwallet wallet.txt
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