dumpprivkey error about bitcoin HOT 5 CLOSED

Newer versions of bitcoin core use descriptor wallets.

You can see them using:

bitcoin-cli listdescriptors true

The true argument mean to export the private descriptors, the equivalent of private keys.

I usually use the tool jq to extract them to an environment variable like so:

DESCRIPTORS=$(bitcoin-cli listdescriptors true | jq -r .descriptors)

I import the descriptors to my wallet with:

bitcoin-cli importdescriptors "$DESCRIPTORS"

I think you can create a legacy wallet with

bitcoin-cli -named createwallet "my_wallet" descriptors=false

which should work with the dumpprivkey rpc you are trying to use.

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@edilmedeiros Hi, I tried and it still doesn't work, which version of bitcoin core still works with dumpprivkey?

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V27 works with dumpprivkey.

The problem is that you are creating a newer descriptor wallet and are trying to use an rpc which is compatible with legacy wallets only.

Can you be more specific about what you tried?

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As the error message says, your wallet is not compatible with the dumpprivkey command. @edilmedeiros has already laid out your alternatives, but there is no way to make your specific wallet work with dumpprivkey.

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thank.
Solved it:

bitcoind -deprecatedrpc=create_bdb -daemon

bitcoin-cli -named createwallet "walletname" descriptors=false

bitcoin-cli getnewaddress

bitcoin-cli dumpprivkey "address"

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