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kjj
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 07, 2013, 06:36:13 AM
#15
Quote from: niko on May 07, 2013, 06:34:06 AM
Quote from: kjj on May 07, 2013, 06:18:01 AM
Quote from: niko on May 07, 2013, 02:47:36 AM
Quote from: kjj on May 06, 2013, 02:38:37 PM
The short version is that coins don't "come from" anywhere.  If you look at your coins, you can do a little detective work and try to figure out the last place they went to before they went to your wallet.  But when they came to your wallet, they didn't come from that place.

And that is for simple transactions, it can get worse.
Coins come from tx inputs, and go into tx outputs. If coins "don't come from anywhere," there is no way for any node to validate a transaction, and Bitcoin doesn't work.

I think you are taking some metaphors too literally.
I think there such thing as "from" address(es), and we can see them for any given transaction.

Well, as long as you don't mind being wrong, you are free to keep thinking that.  Smiley
niko
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 07, 2013, 06:34:06 AM
#14
Quote from: kjj on May 07, 2013, 06:18:01 AM
Quote from: niko on May 07, 2013, 02:47:36 AM
Quote from: kjj on May 06, 2013, 02:38:37 PM
The short version is that coins don't "come from" anywhere.  If you look at your coins, you can do a little detective work and try to figure out the last place they went to before they went to your wallet.  But when they came to your wallet, they didn't come from that place.

And that is for simple transactions, it can get worse.
Coins come from tx inputs, and go into tx outputs. If coins "don't come from anywhere," there is no way for any node to validate a transaction, and Bitcoin doesn't work.

I think you are taking some metaphors too literally.
I think there such thing as "from" address(es), and we can see them for any given transaction.
kjj
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 07, 2013, 06:18:01 AM
#13
Quote from: niko on May 07, 2013, 02:47:36 AM
Quote from: kjj on May 06, 2013, 02:38:37 PM
The short version is that coins don't "come from" anywhere.  If you look at your coins, you can do a little detective work and try to figure out the last place they went to before they went to your wallet.  But when they came to your wallet, they didn't come from that place.

And that is for simple transactions, it can get worse.
Coins come from tx inputs, and go into tx outputs. If coins "don't come from anywhere," there is no way for any node to validate a transaction, and Bitcoin doesn't work.

I think you are taking some metaphors too literally.
niko
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 07, 2013, 02:47:36 AM
#12
Quote from: kjj on May 06, 2013, 02:38:37 PM
The short version is that coins don't "come from" anywhere.  If you look at your coins, you can do a little detective work and try to figure out the last place they went to before they went to your wallet.  But when they came to your wallet, they didn't come from that place.

And that is for simple transactions, it can get worse.
Coins come from tx inputs, and go into tx outputs. If coins "don't come from anywhere," there is no way for any node to validate a transaction, and Bitcoin doesn't work.
bukaj
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 02:44:39 PM
#11
I get it. Thank you.
kjj
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 02:38:37 PM
#10
The short version is that coins don't "come from" anywhere.  If you look at your coins, you can do a little detective work and try to figure out the last place they went to before they went to your wallet.  But when they came to your wallet, they didn't come from that place.

And that is for simple transactions, it can get worse.
bukaj
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 01:51:26 PM
#9
Quote from: jaminunit on May 06, 2013, 01:07:21 PM
Ok after a heap of dry reading I think I'm going to have to change the way I track incoming and outgoing addresses and funding.

What was your idea and why you think it is wrong? I'm asking, because I'm working on accepting coins myself.
jaminunit
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 01:07:21 PM
#8
Ok after a heap of dry reading I think I'm going to have to change the way I track incoming and outgoing addresses and funding.
jaminunit
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 10:03:41 AM
#7
Oh ok,
So does satoshi dice use the blockchain.ino api?
kjj
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 09:57:24 AM
#6
The bitcoin system has no such concept of a "from address", as has been explained in hundreds of threads.
Come-from-Beyond
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 09:55:45 AM
#5
Quote from: jaminunit on May 06, 2013, 09:43:21 AM
Oh ok the address is hashed.

Any tips on how to  unhash it

Can't help here. I used to use blockchain.info API - http://blockchain.info/address/660d4ef3a743e3e696ad990364e555c271ad504b?format=json
jaminunit
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 09:43:21 AM
#4
Oh ok the address is hashed.

Any tips on how to  unhash it
jaminunit
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 09:35:14 AM
#3
Thanks Come-from-Beyond
Hmmm this only seems to get me the receiving address
Come-from-Beyond
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 09:22:42 AM
#2
Quote from: jaminunit on May 06, 2013, 09:21:58 AM
Hi yall,

So I'm creating a little game for fun and want to automatically send winnings back to the address that funded the game.
I see that http://bitbet.us/ did this. You can send them a bitcoin and they will send you any winnings back to the address it came from.

I have looked all through https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list but can't seem to find the function that does that.

Try get txid and then analyze this transaction.
jaminunit
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Re: how to get the "from address" from the bitcoin server client.
May 06, 2013, 09:21:58 AM
#1
Hi yall,

So I'm creating a little game for fun and want to automatically send winnings back to the address that funded the game.
I see that http://bitbet.us/ did this. You can send them a bitcoin and they will send you any winnings back to the address it came from.

I have looked all through https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls_list but can't seem to find the function that does that.
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