Topic: Bitcoind RPC questions. (Read 829 times)
blockexplorer's API can get you the balance of an address.
No and no. While it may be reasonable to add the latter into Bitcoin, the former probably won't happen, since inspecting the block chain can be a compute or I/O intensive process. I suggest using bitcointools to find your way around the block chain; then, depending on what you want to do you can either write something based on bitcointools, patch bitcoind, or something else.
Via the RPC API can I do the following ?
1. Get the balance of an address even if that address is not in the wallet.
2. Sign a payment message and send it on to the bitcoin network ?
Thanks.
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To clarify, I'd like to use bitcoind to interrogate the block chain. It looks like the API only works for accounts and addresses in the wallet. Is that correct ?
1. Get the balance of an address even if that address is not in the wallet.
2. Sign a payment message and send it on to the bitcoin network ?
Thanks.
[edit]
To clarify, I'd like to use bitcoind to interrogate the block chain. It looks like the API only works for accounts and addresses in the wallet. Is that correct ?
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