importaddress
Requires a new wallet backup.
Note: This call can take over an hour to complete if rescan is true, during that time, other rpc calls may report that the imported address exists but related transactions are still missing, leading to temporarily incorrect/bogus balances and unspent outputs until rescan completes.
The rescan parameter can be set to false if the key was never used to create transactions. If it is set to false, but the key was used to create transactions, rescanblockchain needs to be called with the appropriate block range.
If you have the full public key, you should call importpubkey instead of this.
Hint: use importmulti to import more than one address.
Note: If you import a non-standard raw script in hex form, outputs sending to it will be treated as change, and not show up in many RPCs.
Note: Use "getwalletinfo" to query the scanning progress.
Note: This command is only compatible with legacy wallets. Use "importdescriptors" for descriptor wallets.
Argument #1-address
Type: string, Required
Description: The Bitcoin address (or hex-encoded script)
Argument #2-label
Type: string, Optional
Default=""
Description: An optional label
Argument #3-rescan
Type: boolean, Optional
Default=true
Description: Scan the chain and mempool for wallet transactions.
Argument #4-p2sh
Type: boolean, Optional
Default=false
Description: Add the P2SH version of the script as well
Result
null (json null)