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Dynamic loading and creation of wallets
Previously, wallets could only be loaded or created at startup, by specifying -wallet
parameters on the command line or in the bitcoin.conf file. It is now possible to load, create and unload wallets dynamically at runtime:
- Existing wallets can be loaded by calling the
loadwallet
RPC. The wallet can be specified as file/directory basename (which must be located in thewalletdir
directory), or as an absolute path to a file/directory. - New wallets can be created (and loaded) by calling the
createwallet
RPC. The provided name must not match a wallet file in thewalletdir
directory or the name of a wallet that is currently loaded. - Loaded wallets can be unloaded by calling the
unloadwallet
RPC.
This feature is currently only available through the RPC interface.