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walletlock

Removes the wallet encryption key from memory, locking the wallet. After calling this, you will need to call walletpassphrase again before being able to use private keys.

Returns

nullnull on success

Code Examples

curl --user myuser --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"1","method":"walletlock","params":[]}' -H 'content-type:text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Example Response

null
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