importprivkey - This type of wallet does not support this command #23946

issue ethermachine opened this issue on January 3, 2022

ethermachine commented at 12:42 AM on January 3, 2022: none

When I run importprivkey it returns unsupported wallet instead of importing. Code:

bitcoin-cli importprivkey "priv_key" "label" false error code: -4 error message: This type of wallet does not support this command

Version bitcoin-cli -version Bitcoin Core RPC client version v22.99.0-9d099b02d8f0

Node fully synced (full node) Chain: main Blocks: 716934 Headers: 716934 Verification progress: 99.9999% Difficulty: 24272331996979.97
ethermachine added the label Bug on Jan 3, 2022
achow101 commented at 4:51 AM on January 3, 2022: member

This occurs when your wallet is a descriptor wallet. It is expected behavior.

For builds of the master branch (and the future 23.0 release), newly created wallets will default to being descriptor wallets.
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gologo13 commented at 11:02 PM on April 13, 2022: none

Hi there, I came across the same error. With legacy wallets, I can get UTXOs of watch_only addresses from listunspent after executing importaddress, but how can I get balances using descriptor wallets. sorry, I know this could be a different topic, but I hope someone could answer my question.
achow101 commented at 1:01 AM on April 14, 2022: member

@gologo13 Create descriptors for your addresses and import them with importdescriptors.
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