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Topic: Negative balance on wallet (Read 376 times)

hero member
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May 07, 2019, 02:21:36 AM
#8
Personally I haven't seen this system on any wallet to show negative balance. I hope there's been some bug issues on that existing platform. If you haven't got enough amount on your account then why they will give you extra balance to complete your transaction. I have seen emergency balance system on telecom system where they give some balance after the ending of main balance and they deduct that balance from user next recharge. But In bitcoin transaction there's no way to have extra or emergency balance for what they will show negative balances on account.
You probably have missed what Heisenburg_Hunter and I said above of your post. It is possible to have a negative balance shown in your address but in reality, if you try to broadcast a transaction which is bigger than what you have, it will not be confirmed.
copper member
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May 07, 2019, 12:40:45 AM
#7
Personally I haven't seen this system on any wallet to show negative balance. I hope there's been some bug issues on that existing platform. If you haven't got enough amount on your account then why they will give you extra balance to complete your transaction. I have seen emergency balance system on telecom system where they give some balance after the ending of main balance and they deduct that balance from user next recharge. But In bitcoin transaction there's no way to have extra or emergency balance for what they will show negative balances on account.
brand new
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May 11, 2019, 04:21:36 AM
#7
You should contact their Help Section...

They will have a solution for you, if there has any new information, you can share with our. ^^
newbie
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May 17, 2019, 09:47:38 AM
#7
Interesting to read. Never thought a wallet could have a negative balance. Normally it would tell you you cant send a transaction because of insufficient available funds.
hero member
Activity: 1358
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May 06, 2019, 11:25:54 AM
#5
Like as Heisenberg_Hunter said, an address can have negative balance when they send more bitcoin than they hold on the address. This transaction will never be confirmed. Similar issue can be found here- https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/53562/negative-bitcoin-balance
legendary
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Heisenberg Design Services
May 06, 2019, 06:15:18 AM
#4
To be quite true, the bitcoins are stored in the blockchain. In order to spend those coins, you need to sign with your private keys. The wallet and block explorers are just a graphical user interface which helps you to view the balances as they get updated over the nodes.

Whenever you are trying to spend the coins, the outputs and inputs will be checked and verified by the nodes before the transactions are being added to the blockchain. If the input value is less than output value, the transaction is rejected. Hence you can never have a negative balance.

Negative balances can be created only when the inputs are less than output value and such transactions are being confirmed which isn't really possible.

Here is the code to prevent transactions that has negative balances

Code:
const CAmount value_out = tx.GetValueOut();
    if (nValueIn < value_out) {
        return state.Invalid(ValidationInvalidReason::CONSENSUS, false, REJECT_INVALID, "bad-txns-in-belowout",
            strprintf("value in (%s) < value out (%s)", FormatMoney(nValueIn), FormatMoney(value_out)));
    }
legendary
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bitcoindata.science
May 05, 2019, 08:22:38 AM
#3
As far as I know, it's not possible to have a negative balance in your Bitcoin address.
If you search in a more reliable block explorer the balance is zero.

This idea of negative balance is a nonsense in blockchain, because you can just create a new address.

Banks can give you a negative balance, but blockchain can't.
legendary
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Self-proclaimed Genius
May 05, 2019, 05:08:49 AM
#2
Probably a bug in their (apirone.com) system.
Blockchain.com/info doesn't show negative balance from that address: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1GqcMJn3xsJ1yboigQ4gbHopN4EMTYDrsK

Probably, it has something to do with their node(s),
blockchain.com reads that the address was used in 331 transactions while in apirone, it has only 299.
I didn't dig-up more info but that should explain the inconsistency in the balance.
newbie
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May 05, 2019, 04:15:43 AM
#1
hi, sorry if i made the post in wrong topic. i've seen some bitcoin address's on blockchain.info airpone.com and  that has negative balance like -1.2 btc or -0.05
how it work's like this?


for example :
https://apirone.com/btc/address/1GqcMJn3xsJ1yboigQ4gbHopN4EMTYDrsK
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