Topic: [HELP!] Bitcoind balance address (Read 1445 times)

Seems like listaddressgroupings (+listunspent where conf is 0) = totall

Can somebody explaine me how you can get the in and out transactions from an address or account? Google doesnt help, if posible with php or command example.

Thanks! Ill check it out,

is there some php prog on the net where i can find how to check amount sent and received from an account to determine the spendable balance?

Or like this (hope it works)

getbalance = total going in and out
getreceivedbyaddress = received

getreceivedbyaddress (sum up all within the accounts) - getbalance = total spent.
getbalance - totalspent = aviable =]

// edit : nvm getreceivedbyaccount gives the same as getbalance.

use my coinwatch program, see link in sig. its still beta though

Ah sweet now i understand! Thanks

Addresses within accounts are only used to credit accounts when payment received. So when a user gets the private key of an addresses and adds it to lets take blockchain app as example and then receive or sents payment on the address will the deamon still credits the account?

And if you use the api command sentfrom will it auto sents it to the blockchain and broadcast the transaction? (I quess because you receive txid)

Not useless.  Very useful.  Just not useful the way you are trying to use it.  You need to learn more about how accounts and addresses work in the daemon, and then do a lot of testing to make sure you didn't misunderstand something.


I assume you are asking about the following command from the API?

It will update the "account".  It will not update any "addresses".


No.  It will only update the accounts that you you indicate in the "move" command, but it won't update ANY addresses at all.


No. It will update the "account" that you indicate, but you won't have any control over which "addresses" the bitcoins that are spent were received at.


Yes.


Yes.


No. Accounts don't "hold" addresses. One or more addresses can be associated with accounts for receiving bitcoins.  If you associate an address with an account, then any bitcoins that are received at that address are credited to the associated account.  However, when you send bitcoins, you don't have any control over which addresses that sent bitcoins were previously received on unless you are creating raw transactions.


Correct.  If you want to move funds between addresses, then you need to create a transaction, broadcast it to the bitcoin network, and wait for a miner to confirm it.


You can check the balance of an address, but it is complex.  You need to run the command "listunspent" and then add up the values of all of the unspent outputs that were received at that address in the wallet.


Correct.  Addresses are used to control how bitcoins are received, not how they are sent.  Unspent outputs (identified by an transactionID and an index) are used to control how bitcoins are sent.


I'm still not sure that you do, but you are getting close.


No. Accounts don't "have" addresses. One or more addresses can be associated with accounts for receiving bitcoins.  If you associate an address with an account, then any bitcoins that are received at that address are credited to the associated account.  However, when you send bitcoins, you don't have any control over which addresses that sent bitcoins were previously received on unless you are creating raw transactions.


No it doesn't.


I don't think you can depend on this.

Idea

I'll need a lot more information about what you are trying to accomplish to give you a good answer.

Generally, you should not re-use bitcoin addresses.

Any time a user is going to send you bitcoins, you should generate a new bitcoin address for them.  When you receive the bitcoins in your wallet, you should have your own separate database that you use to track the balance for each user.  When you send bitcoins on behalf of a user from your wallet, you should update the balance in your database.

Most of the bitcoins you control should be in offline cold storage.  The bitcoins that you receive from users should probably be consolidated into larger outputs in your hot wallet on a regular basis to reduce transaction fees.


I'm having a difficult time understanding what you are trying to accomplish, or why you are doing it that way.


There is no such thing as sending "from an address" in bitcoin.  You can only send "to an address".  When you use the "sendfrom" command, you are not sending from an address, you are sending from an account.  The wallet will arbitrarily choose which outputs to spend, and they might not be outputs that were received at an address associated with that account.

Make sure you understand that "accounts" and "addresses" are not the same thing.  This causes many people a lot of confusion.


Correct, if you use "Sendfrom", the wallet will fill the transaction with as many bitcoins as it needs regardless of which address received the bitcoins.

Ah oke so what to do?

For a project we need to make user addresses, fund there balance and they need to be able to spend it trough any android/ios wallet with there private key.

If you make a transaction and give in a adress as the from with insufficient amount you will get an error right? Or does the system fills it with the balance from the rest of the wallet?

Unless you either never send any bitcoins from the wallet at all or create your own raw transactions, this won't work.

When you send from an "account", the Bitcoin Core wallet does not necessarily use the bitcoins that funded the "account" in the first place. It often may spend bitcoins that were received at some other address associated with a different "account" in the wallet.

You should not expect the "balance" associated with an address (or group of addresses) to be the same as the balance associated with any particular account in Bitcoin Core.

Thought so, or make every adresss a separate account so you can use gebalance.

It is not possible troughout JSON-RPC
You should convert (and maintain) blockchain to another database

Hi there,

I have the bitcoin client installed on my vps and it works nice troughout JSON-RPC.

I was wondering how to calculatie the amount of bitcoins aviable on a address (not a wallet).

Like blockchain does :

https://blockchain.info/address/12sENwECeRSmTeDwyLNqwh47JistZqFmW8?format=json

"total_received":24119415125420, == JSON Aviable
"total_sent":23929615048320,
"final_balance":189800077100,