Empezando con el monedero CLI

monero-wallet-cli is the wallet software shipped in the Monero archives. It is a console program, and manages an account. While a bitcoin wallet manages both an account and the blockchain, Monero separates these: monerod handles the blockchain, and monero-wallet-cli handles the account.

This guide will show how to perform various operations with monero-wallet-cli. The guide assumes you are using the most recent version of Monero and have already created an account according to the other guides.

Overview

You can have a list of the most important commands by running help:

Important commands:

"welcome" - Show welcome message.
"help all" - Show the list of all available commands.
"help <command>" - Show a command's documentation.
"apropos <keyword>" - Show commands related to a keyword.

"wallet_info" - Show wallet main address and other info.
"balance" - Show balance.
"address all" - Show all addresses.
"address new [<label text with white spaces allowed>]" - Create new subaddress.
"transfer <address> <amount>" - Send XMR to an address.
"show_transfers [in|out|pending|failed|pool]" - Show transactions.
"sweep_all <address>" - Send whole balance to another wallet.
"seed" - Show secret 25 words that can be used to recover this wallet.
"refresh" - Synchronize wallet with the Monero network.
"status" - Check current status of wallet.
"version" - Check software version.
"exit" - Exit wallet.

"donate <amount>" - Donate XMR to the development team.

Checking your balance

Ya que el manejo de la blockchain y del monedero son programas separados, varios usos de monero-wallet-cli necesitan trabajar con el daemon. Esto incluye buscar por transacciones de entrada a tu dirección. Una vez que estés ejecutando monero-wallet-cli y monerod, escribe balance.

Output:

Currently selected account: [0] Primary account
Tag: (No tag assigned)
Balance: 7.499942880000, unlocked balance: 7.499942880000

In this example you're viewing the balance of your primary account (with index [0]). Balance is your total balance. The unlocked balance is the amount currently available to spend. Newly received transactions require 10 confirmations on the blockchain before being unlocked.

Sending monero

You will need the standard address you want to send to (a long string starting with '4' or a '8'). The command structure is:

transfer ADDRESS AMOUNT

Replace ADDRESS with the address you want to send to and AMOUNT with how many monero you want to send.

Receiving monero

If you have your own Monero address, you just need to give your address to someone.

You can find out your primary address with:

address

Since Monero is anonymous, you won't see the origin address the funds you receive came from. If you want to know, for instance to credit a particular customer, you'll have to tell the sender to use a payment ID, which is an arbitrary optional tag which gets attached to a transaction. It's not possible to use standalone payment addresses, but you can generate an address that already includes a random payment ID (integrated addresss) using integrated_address:

Random payment ID: <82d79055f3b27f56>
Matching integrated address: 4KHQkZ4MmVePC2yau6Mb8vhuGGy8LVdsZD8CFcQJvr4BSTfC5AQX3aXCn5RiDPjvsEHiJu1TC1ybR8pRTCbZM5bhTrAD3HDwWMtAn1K7nV

This will generate a random payment ID, and give you the address that includes your own account and that payment ID. If you want to select a particular payment ID, you can do that too. Use:

integrated_address 82d79055f3b27f56

Payments made to an integrated address generated from your account will go to your account, with that payment ID attached, so you can tell payments apart.

Using subaddresses

It's suggested to use subaddresses (starting with 8) instead of your main address (starting with 4) to receive funds. Run:

address new [<label text with white spaces allowed>]

This will generate a subaddress and its optional label, which addess you can share to receive payment on the account it's linked to. For example,

address new github_donations

will generate a subaddress and its label 'github_donations'.

To view all generated addresses, run:

address all

Proving to a third party you paid someone

Si pagas a un comerciante, y el comerciante reclama que no ha recibido el pago, puedes necesitar probar a un tercero que sí enviaste los fondos, o incluso al comerciante, si es que es un error honesto. Monero es privado, así que no puedes simplemente indicar tu transacción en la blockchain, tampoco puedes saber quién la envió, ni quién la recibió. No obstante, proveyendo la llave privada por transacción a una parte, esa parte puede saber si esa transacción envió Monero a esa dirección en particular. Ten en cuenta que guardar estas llaves privadas por transacción está desactivado por defecto, y tendrás que activarlo antes de enviar, si crees que lo puedes necesitar:

set store-tx-info 1

Puedes recuperar la llave tx de una transacción anterior:

get_tx_key 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234567890123456789012

Coloca el ID de la transacción del cual quieres la llave. Recuerda que un pago puede haber sido dividido en más de una transacción, así que puedes necesitar varias llaves. Puedes enviar esa llave, o llaves, a quien quieras proveer con pruebas de tu transacción, junto con los ID de transacción y la dirección a la que enviaste. Ten en cuenta que este tercero, si conoce tu dirección, será capaz de ver cuánto cambio regresó a tu cuenta también.

Si tú eres el tercero (esto es, alguien quiere probarte que enviaron Monero a una dirección), entonces puedes revisarlo de esta forma:

check_tx_key TXID TXKEY ADDRESS

Replace TXID, TXKEY and ADDRESS with the transaction ID, per-transaction key, and destination address which were supplied to you, respectively. monero-wallet-cli will check that transaction and let you know how much monero this transaction paid to the given address.

How to find a payment to you

Si recibiste un pago utilizando un ID de pago en particular, puedes verlo con:

payments PAYMENTID

Puedes dar más de un ID de pago también.

De manera más general, puedes revisar pagos de entrada y salida:

show_transfers

Puedes dar una altura opcional para listar sólo transacciones recientes, y solicitar solamente transacciones de entrada o salida. Por ejemplo,

show_transfers in 650000

sólo mostrará transacciones de entrada después del block 650000. También puedes dar un rango de altura.

Si quieres minar, puedes hacerlo desde tu monedero:

start_mining 2

Esto empezará a minar en el daemon utilizando dos subprocesos. Ten en cuenta que esto es minado en solitario, y puede tomar un tiempo en encontrar un bloque. Para detener el minado:

stop_mining

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