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Topic: How to track incoming Bitcoins in realtime (Read 499 times)

newbie
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November 13, 2013, 12:32:11 AM
#3
My c++ skills are weak unfortunately, though not non-existent.

I guess my goal would be to create a daemon that listens for updates and provides updates via http/https.

Any projects out there doing this? Or anyone have some code they'd like to share?
legendary
Activity: 1652
Merit: 1016
November 12, 2013, 05:54:46 PM
#2
Personally I would use libbitcoin c++ library to listen for transactions.
newbie
Activity: 5
Merit: 0
November 12, 2013, 05:48:16 PM
#1
Hello all!

I'm a long time lurker, first time caller. I really like the way blockchain.info processes payments, however I'd like to not have to be dependent on anyone else.

I want to basically recreate what they do, but just for my own personal use (at first anyway). I want to be able to acknowledge payments in realtime without any human intervention.

I've got it to this so far:

Generate a new address for a payment.
--?
Mark account as credited.

How am I supposed to know when a payment gets in? Will it require bitcoind to be fully synced and running in the background, at which point I have to enter in all of the receiving addresses into the bitcoin client?  I would prefer not to depend on any outside API's, but maybe if I could query an API (for short-term use) providing the address, I could get a result of any incoming payments?

I've been reading gobs and gobs of information on bitcoin since early 2012, but didn't really pull the trigger then like I should have, and this bit still eludes me.

Any help or links much appreciated! Thanks!  Smiley
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