Thanks, I would have named that sendas though.
Good call - I think naming the command sendfrom is what has confused people about its behaviour.
Topic: [Poll] Accounts in bitcoind - page 2. (Read 3204 times)
Good call - I think naming the command sendfrom is what has confused people about its behaviour.
Intuitively, one might think that sendfrom [account] [destination] [amount] would send from the address labelled with the account. It does something else that I don't really understand instead.
What it does is basically label the tx with the account name (it actually doesn't have anything to do with which addresses are picked to send from).
Thanks, I would have named that sendas though.
Intuitively, one might think that sendfrom [account] [destination] [amount] would send from the address labelled with the account. It does something else that I don't really understand instead.
What it does is basically label the tx with the account name (it actually doesn't have anything to do with which addresses are picked to send from).
what do you mean by coin control?
There is a patch/branch for Bitcoin that enables you to nominate which addresses to send BTC from (normally you have no control over this).
In the next release (0.7) there will be a new raw transaction API which will enable you to do the same (and actually more as you will have complete control over the transaction with it).
THEY CAN HAVE NEGATIVE BALANCES!!! feature? bug?
Am not aware of this feature/bug as after realising that accounts were not suitable for what I was looking for (which was really coin control) I stopped playing with them.
what do you mean by coin control?
Intuitively, one might think that sendfrom [account] [destination] [amount] would send from the address labelled with the account. It does something else that I don't really understand instead.
THEY CAN HAVE NEGATIVE BALANCES!!! feature? bug?
Am not aware of this feature/bug as after realising that accounts were not suitable for what I was looking for (which was really coin control) I stopped playing with them.
what do you mean by coin control?
THEY CAN HAVE NEGATIVE BALANCES!!! feature? bug?
Am not aware of this feature/bug as after realising that accounts were not suitable for what I was looking for (which was really coin control) I stopped playing with them.
Actually now that I think about it this would make perfect sense as the "account" is just a label you put onto a tx. So if you send and you had never received with an address labelled as an account then of course the balance would be negative.
I guess it really just says more about the unintuitive nature of the implementation.
THEY CAN HAVE NEGATIVE BALANCES!!! feature? bug?
Am not aware of this feature/bug as after realising that accounts were not suitable for what I was looking for (which was really coin control) I stopped playing with them.
I think there should be some special notes added to the API documentation (or at least a link to something) to describe clearly what Bitcoin "accounts" actually are because much of the negative views about them is due to not understanding them correctly (such as thinking they are the same as "coin control").
THEY CAN HAVE NEGATIVE BALANCES!!! feature? bug?
I think there should be some special notes added to the API documentation (or at least a link to something) to describe clearly what Bitcoin "accounts" actually are because much of the negative views about them is due to not understanding them correctly (such as thinking they are the same as "coin control").
it is missing a "they suck!!! kill them before they lay eggs!!" vote.
How do you feel about bitcoind's accounts? Do you always use them? Never? Are there any cases where you'd advise for or against their use?
/I'm not making any statement about accounts with this poll, just wondering if people recommend them to new developers that wish to use bitcoind.
/I'm not making any statement about accounts with this poll, just wondering if people recommend them to new developers that wish to use bitcoind.
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