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Title: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: qrius1111 on November 22, 2015, 01:19:48 PM i'm having no luck getting bitcoin-cli listtransactions to work for a watch-only address:
Code: # pick a random address to watch from blockchain.info: its only producing an empty list, but blockchain.info shows 6 transactions for this address. is it broken or am i doing something wrong? Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: achow101 on November 22, 2015, 03:08:14 PM Listtransactions does not work by address. It works by accounts. The command should instead be
Code: bitcoin-cli listtransactions "" 100 0 true EDIT: Sorry, typo. Forgot the quotes. Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: qrius1111 on November 22, 2015, 09:08:51 PM i know that - that's why i made an account with the name of an address:
Code: $ addr=1GkktBuJ6Pr51WEJe5ZzyNvMYaMDFjwyDk i could just as well have done: Code: $ addr=1GkktBuJ6Pr51WEJe5ZzyNvMYaMDFjwyDk and it would be the same. also note that the results of listaddressgroupings confirm this: Code: $ bitcoin-cli listaddressgroupings Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: qrius1111 on November 22, 2015, 09:18:18 PM Listtransactions does not work by address. It works by accounts. The command should instead be Code: bitcoin-cli listtransactions 100 0 true have you tried running this? when i run it i get the following: Code: $ bitcoin-cli listtransactions 100 0 true Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: gmaxwell on November 22, 2015, 10:41:00 PM The empty quotes were not optional, the account name field is missing in your example of trying it.
Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: qrius1111 on November 22, 2015, 10:48:29 PM The empty quotes were not optional, the account name field is missing in your example of trying it. right, but it still doesn't show me the transactions for that watch-only address: Code: $ bitcoin-cli listtransactions "" 99999 0 true | grep 1GkktBuJ6Pr51WEJe5ZzyNvMYaMDFjwyDk ie the output is blank. i'm fairly certain it is watching this address though: Code: $ bitcoin-cli listaddressgroupings Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: achow101 on November 22, 2015, 11:08:08 PM This is a little confusing. I just tried and imported the address as watching only. List transactions did return some transactions, but not all gave me the receiving transactions.
Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: gmaxwell on November 23, 2015, 02:34:42 AM You're asking about account "" but you imported the address in account "1GkktBuJ6Pr51WEJe5ZzyNvMYaMDFjwyDk".
Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: qrius1111 on November 23, 2015, 02:42:00 AM i just want to see transaction hashes for account "1GkktBuJ6Pr51WEJe5ZzyNvMYaMDFjwyDk". but like i said at the start, its not working:
i'm having no luck getting bitcoin-cli listtransactions to work for a watch-only address: Code: # pick a random address to watch from blockchain.info: its only producing an empty list, but blockchain.info shows 6 transactions for this address. is it broken or am i doing something wrong? Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: qrius1111 on November 28, 2015, 04:16:22 AM should i submit a bug report? i wish my knowledge of c++ was better - i could investigate by actually stepping through the code
Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: fbueller on December 02, 2015, 05:59:53 AM Someone may be able to advise better, but just adding the address won't make bitcoind find all historical transactions, you may have to rescan/reindex to get them, which takes time!
If you want to start digging around, the source code for importaddress is here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/wallet/rpcdump.cpp#L154 Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: luv2drnkbr on December 08, 2015, 10:38:38 AM OP, you have to re-scan/re-index. When you import an address, it only sees transactions that happen after you imported it, because as it downloads the blockchain, while it does save the entire blockchain, it only saves in your wallet file data that it knows is relevant to your wallet. So if there were past transactions for an imported address, you have to rescan. Then as it rescans it will see data for the new imported address that it now deems relevant, and that will be saved and available for you to query, after the rescan completes.
Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: qrius1111 on January 21, 2016, 06:43:17 AM Quote Someone may be able to advise better, but just adding the address won't make bitcoind find all historical transactions, you may have to rescan/reindex to get them, which takes time! Quote OP, you have to re-scan/re-index. When you import an address, it only sees transactions that happen after you imported it, because as it downloads the blockchain, while it does save the entire blockchain, it only saves in your wallet file data that it knows is relevant to your wallet. So if there were past transactions for an imported address, you have to rescan. rescanning is what the final argument of importaddress is for: Code: $ bitcoin-cli help importaddress if you look at my first post you will see i used the linux "time" command - it took 41 minutes and 59 seconds to import this watch-only address and still failed. Title: Re: bitcoin-cli listtransactions not working for watch-only address Post by: CIYAM on January 21, 2016, 06:50:12 AM Have you tried a "listunspent" (assuming there are UXTOs for the watch only address)?
(I've had no issues using that command with watch only addresses) |