Send bitcoins from selected addresses using bitcoin-qt

[anti]

Hi!

I have several addresses in my bitcoin-qt wallet. Is it possible for me to select from which addresses I want to initiate a transfer from? I want coins only to be transferred from some of these addresses, but not all. How to do it?

Thanks!

[Bitsky]

Not with the official client. Search the forum for coincontrol; it looks liike it could make it into the next release.
Some other clients already have this feature though.

[riX]

Yes, you can do it with bitcoin-qt, but not through the GUI.
Just create an unique label for the address you want to send from and run

Code:

bitcoind sendfrom <fromaccount> <tobitcoinaddress> <amount> [minconf=1] [comment] [comment-to]

[DannyHamilton]

Be aware that Bitcoin-Qt moves around the bitcoins every time you create a transaction (look into "change" addresses), so the bitcoins may not even be associated any longer with the addresses where you originally received them.

[CIYAM]

Yes, you can do it with bitcoin-qt, but not through the GUI.
Just create an unique label for the address you want to send from and run

Code:

bitcoind sendfrom <fromaccount> <tobitcoinaddress> <amount> [minconf=1] [comment] [comment-to]

That will not do what you think at all (accounts are *not* addresses).

The only way currently for the OP to do what they want would be to use raw tx's (and I wouldn't recommend that unless you really are very sure about what you are doing).

[grue]

Yes, you can do it with bitcoin-qt, but not through the GUI.
Just create an unique label for the address you want to send from and run

Code:

bitcoind sendfrom <fromaccount> <tobitcoinaddress> <amount> [minconf=1] [comment] [comment-to]

accounts system is in no way related to how addresses work. it's for bookeeping ONLY.

[CIYAM]

it's for bookeeping ONLY.

And even for bookkeeping they are not very useful (as typical bookkeeping involves keeping track of individual account transactions which basically you can't do with Bitcoin).

[riX]

Yes, you can do it with bitcoin-qt, but not through the GUI.
Just create an unique label for the address you want to send from and run

Code:

bitcoind sendfrom <fromaccount> <tobitcoinaddress> <amount> [minconf=1] [comment] [comment-to]

That will not do what you think at all (accounts are *not* addresses).

The only way currently for the OP to do what they want would be to use raw tx's (and I wouldn't recommend that unless you really are very sure about what you are doing).

Oh, sorry about that, I was wrong.
I had to read the source to believe you, accounts should really be explained better, and sendfromaccount isn't a very good name then.

For the OP: Ok, so the only way to do it with bitcoin-qt is to do something like this:
Run listunspent, choose the outputs you want as inputs, do createrawtransaction, signrawtransaction, sendrawtransaction. Make sure you don't forget about fee or change.
There are scripts that can do this for you.


Or just export the private keys and use something like brainwallet.org if it's a one time thing you need to do.

[pc]

Doing it with Bitcoin-Qt requires the raw API, as others have said. An example of using it in python is in the "contrib" directory and is actually pretty useful: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/contrib/spendfrom