Current amount of currency units (bitcoins, ppcoins, real money, etc.).
Current amount of currency units (bitcoins, ppcoins, real money, etc.).
Questions tagged [balance]
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How is a wallet's balance computed?
I am wondering on how a wallet's balance is computed. Basically, from what I've read I assume that you look back at all transactions involving all the keypairs of a given wallet. Adding up all the transactions' balances (negating a transaction…
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How does the network know my current balance?
Maybe I haven't yet fully understood how transactions work. And if so, please forgive me my stupid question.
But I assume it to be "just" a digitally signed message like "send 1 BTC to Bob" where Bob is identified by its public key (of course…
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The Bitcoin.it wiki says addresses do not carry balances...but all info suggests otherwise
The Bitcoin wiki states, "Addresses are not wallets nor accounts, and do not carry balances."
Yet, there's a zillion articles online about Bitcoin address balances, the Bitcoin blockchain explorers show balances, and so on.
Can you explain the…
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Is my account balance publicly visible?
If I'm sending someone my wallet address, am I making my account balance visible to him?
As far as I understand, all transactions are public, which means that if I know an address, I can reconstruct the current account balance via the blockchain.
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Is it possible to use xpub address to monitor balance from previously generated addresses?
I'm trying to find a way where I can view balance of my ledger nano s wallet without always attaching it to computer all the time.
I found something called xpub address which allows me to generate public addresses without my hardware wallet, I am…
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How to check Bitcoin wallet balance without any API
I am building an application and that will involve large set of bitcoin wallets and need to keep on checking for balance. I don't want to use any third party APIs as they all have hourly/secondly limits.
Is there any way I can check bitcoin wallets…
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How to get balance from a specific address in bitcoinj?
I'm trying to get the balance of a specific address in a wallet by using bitcoinj, but I don't know how. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance!!
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Wallet balance zero after restoring wallet.dat
I recently restored my wallet.dat file from another machine. The wallet.dat came from a Linux machine (debian), and was restored to a Windows bitcoin install.
After restoring I can see the correct bitcoin address, but the balance is 0 BTC. The…
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Checking/polling a balance of an address in Electrum via the command line/RPC
Suppose, I've dynamically -- via the command line/RPC -- created an address or payment_query in Electrum. And saved its details in a database along with the amount of bitcoins I expect to receive.
How can then check/poll if that amount of bitcoins…
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Where is my bitcoin balance stored in the blockchain?
This is possibly a duplicate but, since I am a Bitcoin dummy I cannot find it.
Anyhow; as I understand (and I will make some assumptions here), a block in the blockchain contains one or more transactions.
Transactions are typically bits of…
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Why are balances not in the blockchain?
Currently one needs to traverse the full blockchain to determine the balance of a certain address. Wouldn't it be much more efficient to include the new balance along with each transaction? That way clients wouldn't need the whole blockchain to…
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How can I have friend to send me money without possibility to see my balance?
How can I have friend to send me money without possibility to see my balance?
When I give him address where to send bitcoins, he can use e.g. https://blockchain.info or http://bitref.com/ to find my balance.
If I create new address, let him send…
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How to retrieve all addresses with non-zero balance and their balances?
I'm looking for a way to retrieve all address balances of addresses with a non-zero balance in the blockchain.
Is there a software tool that can calculate the balances in an accessible format?
Or perhaps I can download them somewhere?
With an…
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Calculating address balance
Is there some method how you can calculate the balance of an address without resorting to web-based API's? When I import a private key the rescanning of bitcoind takes hours. I know to get a balance you would need to iterate over all transactions in…
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How to query all utxos of an address from a full node?
I am new in the blockchain field, and I am trying to build my own block explorer from scratch to really learn about Bitcoin. I am currently running a full node in a raspberry pi, and I have already decoded the chainstate/UTXO-set with a levelDB…
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