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diff --git a/contrib/spendfrom/README.md b/contrib/spendfrom/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index c0a9c9ccf9..0000000000 --- a/contrib/spendfrom/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -### SpendFrom ### - -Use the raw transactions API to send coins received on a particular -address (or addresses). - -### Usage: ### -Depends on [jsonrpc](http://json-rpc.org/). - - spendfrom.py --from=FROMADDRESS1[,FROMADDRESS2] --to=TOADDRESS --amount=amount \ - --fee=fee --datadir=/path/to/.bitcoin --testnet --dry_run - -With no arguments, outputs a list of amounts associated with addresses. - -With arguments, sends coins received by the `FROMADDRESS` addresses to the `TOADDRESS`. - -### Notes ### - -- You may explicitly specify how much fee to pay (a fee more than 1% of the amount -will fail, though, to prevent bitcoin-losing accidents). Spendfrom may fail if -it thinks the transaction would never be confirmed (if the amount being sent is -too small, or if the transaction is too many bytes for the fee). - -- If a change output needs to be created, the change will be sent to the last -`FROMADDRESS` (if you specify just one `FROMADDRESS`, change will go back to it). - -- If `--datadir` is not specified, the default datadir is used. - -- The `--dry_run` option will just create and sign the transaction and print -the transaction data (as hexadecimal), instead of broadcasting it. - -- If the transaction is created and broadcast successfully, a transaction id -is printed. - -- If this was a tool for end-users and not programmers, it would have much friendlier -error-handling. |