Read-A-Key-Value-Pair.md

Read A Key Value Pair

This guide will teach you how to read a key value pair from the SPACE blockchain.

KV is available with Spacecoind or Spacecoin-QT.

Table of Contents

• Please Note
• Background Information
• Instructions

Please Note

With Spacecoin-QT the commands will need to be entered in the console. This is accessible at Help -> Debug Window -> Console.

Background Information

Anyone can read KV data from the blockchain by search for a key.

Instructions

1. Navigate to spacecoin-cli or Console depending on your wallet.

2. Enter the command kvsearch key.

   Example: kvsearch testing

   This will return information about the testing key value pair.

   {
     "coin": "tSPACE",
     "currentheight": 154,
     "key": "testing",
     "keylen": 7,
     "owner": "5977102975eb8ce29ccb4d551a3192a200b7f40dcba0b5b10048adecc6ab3fdd",
     "height": 153,
     "expiration": 1593,
     "flags": 0,
     "value": "This is my kv test value",
     "valuesize": 24
   }