You could create an additional database file with public keys associated with usernames/passwords. Creating an address logs the resulting public key to the new database (in addition to wallet.dat); CreateTransaction is modified to only select coins from those addresses associated with the account; the various "list transactions" commands are modified to only tally/show transactions to addresses associated with the account; new commands are added to transfer keys from one account to another. You could make it possible to transfer funds (without the keys) from one account to another without a real transaction, but this would involve much more complexity.
Implementation wouldn't be too difficult, I think (if you don't have to deal with the UI). The worst part would be dealing with the new database file and figuring out how to replace the existing authentication with your own stuff.
Topic: Multiple Wallets, one computer (multiple accounts) - page 2. (Read 12118 times)
Can you just create a new windows user and log in with that user? Bitcoin creates a directory per windows user, I think.
I want to have multiple "accounts" with unique balances and to send and receive coins on a per-account basis. The equiv. of having multiple wallets running at the same time.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
I guess one way to do this would be use the -datadir=
Yeah, I've been considering how to best go about this for the web services. Right now multiple services on the same machine run multiple clients bound to separate rpc ports. It works... to a point.
What I want is a separate wallet per user, and that scales pretty badly, so what I thought could be done is have multiple wallets in memory at the same time, based on some key (which would be the subdir inside the datadir for the wallet) and the rpc calls would take a -wallet= switch. I just don't know how many wallets I would be able to keep in memory at the same time, and I would loose the ability to move money instantly amongst them, but that's ok, I guess.
A slightly more scalable alternative would be to lazily load the wallets on demand. I know wallets keep a bunch of information, but maybe we could limit that to own addresses and transactions?
Satoshi: are you planning on doing any of this? As I'm not familiar with this part of the code, it would suck to spend a week trying to figure out the best way to do this and then you pushing the perfect implementation to svn
I want to have multiple "accounts" with unique balances and to send and receive coins on a per-account basis. The equiv. of having multiple wallets running at the same time.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
I guess one way to do this would be use the -datadir=
It's something im missing too, it would be nice to have seperate 'accounts' with each it's own balance and transactions. One for personal use, one for business, etc.
Nope, I really need it on a per-receiving address so that it is easy to directly track the balances from customers paying me.
I want to have multiple "accounts" with unique balances and to send and receive coins on a per-account basis. The equiv. of having multiple wallets running at the same time.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
Would it help to use the attached messages you have when sending to an IP address? It should be easy to record a "sending ip address" in that case also.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
+1
I want to have multiple "accounts" with unique balances and to send and receive coins on a per-account basis. The equiv. of having multiple wallets running at the same time.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
It would help to simply list the balance for each 'receiving address' and to specify a 'source' address when sending coins.
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