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Title: Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in wallet?
Post by: overc on August 13, 2014, 09:21:14 PM
Hi All!

Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in my wallet.dat file?

I would like to receive payments to my addresses which are in cold wallet and
I do not want to rely only on blockchain.info API.

Thank you in advance.



Title: Re: Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in wallet?
Post by: rapport on August 14, 2014, 06:21:38 AM
Hi All!

Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in my wallet.dat file?

I would like to receive payments to my addresses which are in cold wallet and
I do not want to rely only on blockchain.info API.

Thank you in advance.



Been asked many times and currently, no, bitcoind can't do that.
You can try using a wallet that works in 2 modes: online and offline.  The online wallet will show the balance, but will not have the private keys.


Title: Re: Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in wallet?
Post by: overc on August 14, 2014, 10:41:19 PM
Are you talking about Armory?

I would like to use only the core bitcoin wallet.
So, the core wallet does not have such feature: online and offline mode, does it?


Title: Re: Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in wallet?
Post by: elbandi on August 15, 2014, 09:47:29 AM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=296904.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=296904.0)
It's already merged to bitcoin trunk codebase: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4045

So build a latest unstable, or wait to next release.


Title: Re: Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in wallet?
Post by: rapport on August 16, 2014, 06:17:22 AM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=296904.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=296904.0)
It's already merged to bitcoin trunk codebase: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4045

So build a latest unstable, or wait to next release.

Thanks
(If waiting, need to wait for 0.10 in case there are other releases that are not 0.10)


Title: Re: Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in wallet?
Post by: williamj2543 on August 16, 2014, 06:18:33 AM
Sadly its not possible. Does txindex change anything? The best way currently would probably be an api like blockchain.info/rawaddr/ and decode the json


Title: Re: Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in wallet?
Post by: fonsie on August 19, 2014, 05:34:57 PM
Perhaps https://chain.com/ could be of any help to you.