Does list transsaction store the lists of transactions or the other way?

[Xenland]

Does listtransactions command store a precomputed list or will it rescan the block chain after i import a bitcoin pub/pri key and output the updated list? how does that work so I can accurately build up my BIK library.

[Pieter Wuille]

Neither.

It queries the wallet, not the blockchain. The wallet contains a list of transactions, which is on-the-fly processed to produce the listtransactions output.

[Xenland]

Neither.

It queries the wallet, not the blockchain. The wallet contains a list of transactions, which is on-the-fly processed to produce the listtransactions output.

Okay thats what i thought to an extent;


So its safe to assume if i import a key and call listtransactions it will on the fly proccess to produce the list with that key in it as well?

[grue]

only if you imported with rescan = true (which is true by default)