I run a Bitcoin Core node on my computer and have a Windows tablet. My wallet is on the computer and I want to keep it there. Is there a way to have my tablet create a new Bitcoin address for my wallet by telling my node to do it and sending me the result, thus keeping my private keys and wallet off my tablet?
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Yes, you can use the node's RPC API method getnewaddress to create a new public-key pair and it will return the address.
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That sounds great. Can you tell me how it's done on Windows? – DoaJC_Blogger Jan 30 '16 at 13:38
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You will need to write some code for this. An example in C# (for a different API method but you get the idea) can be found [here](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5810/how-do-i-call-json-rpc-api-using-c). Another in C can be found [here](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/41122/how-to-call-json-rpc-api-from-c). Most languages have a bitcoin library that makes it very easy to call the API methods: bitcoinJ for Java, bitcoinJS for Javascript, bitcoin-ruby for Ruby, pybitcointools and pycoin for Python, etc. I am not aware of an existing tool that does this easier. – karask Jan 30 '16 at 20:23
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Thank you, karask. It also linked to a C# library on github, but that one looks like I would have to resync from the beginning, so I'll try your link first. – DoaJC_Blogger Jan 30 '16 at 23:15