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achow101

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Just writing some code

The way that getbalance works currently cannot check the balance of an individual address. However the whole accounts system in Bitcoin Core has been deprecated and is being removed, so you will probably be able to do that in a major release or two (after 0.14).

The accounts are the same as the Labels that you see in the Receiving Addresses list. By default, the account is blank, so you would type

Code:

getbalance ""

in order to get the balance of all of your wallets.

For one address, you could assign it its own account by changing the label and callling

Code:

getbalance ""

where is the label you gave the address.

niokobo

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Quote from: devans on February 24, 2017, 09:27:06 AM

getbalance returns the balance of an account in bitcoind, not of an address.

One way of checking an address's spendable balance is to first import it using importaddress and then add up the unspent outputs to that address returned by listunspent.

i cant just check the balance for an address like that
bitcoin-cli getbalance 162Q35GC13aFaF6XVRpibVddpjSCbsFkaF

and whats my account how can i create 1??

i assume this is the same account as in bitcoin core right (the GUI wallet)

devans

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getbalance returns the balance of an account in bitcoind, not of an address.

One way of checking an address's spendable balance is to first import it using importaddress and then add up the unspent outputs to that address returned by listunspent.

niokobo

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i just finished downloading the whole blockhain and when i run

bitcoind

it says
bitcoin server started

but when i nw try to maek calls i dont receive no answers

i can run bitcoin-cli getbalance
and for any bitcoin address i try to check i receive a 0 as blance

how do i know if im connected, what else do i need to do

i also already created a bitcoin.conf which is in my .bitcoin folder

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