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Bitcoin => Development & Technical Discussion => Topic started by: Gavin Andresen on May 09, 2011, 07:47:18 PM



Title: [PULL] Allow move RPC to take account balances negative
Post by: Gavin Andresen on May 09, 2011, 07:47:18 PM
   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/215

This pull is prompted by changes I'm making to ClearCoin, and should apply to any service where customers will owe the service bitcoins.   It removes the account balance checks from the RPC move command.

I'll use it to create accounts associated with users that keep track of how many bitcoins they owe; for example, if I owed 1 bitcoin ClearCoin will tell bitcoin:
  move 'gavinandresen' 'total_owed' 1.00

Assuming I'm not carrying a balance, that makes the gavinandresen account balance -1.00 BTC.  When I pay to one of the addresses associated with the 'gavinandresen' account, the account balance will be automatically credited.

If I were a professional accountant I probably would have written 'move' this way to begin with...


Title: Re: [PULL] Allow move RPC to take account balances negative
Post by: Luke-Jr on May 09, 2011, 09:27:38 PM
I'm pretty sure this used to work, though it didn't when I just tried...