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June 14, 2011, 05:10:18 AM Last edit: June 14, 2011, 05:26:21 AM by haydenwaves |
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else's ? I know you can see your own balance in the client itself ...
I've heard of blockexplorer but don't know how to read it - is it possibly to put someones payment address and see how many bitcoins they have?
Thanks!
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June 14, 2011, 05:18:07 AM |
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Good question, I'm wondering the same thing.
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June 14, 2011, 05:23:10 AM |
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I don't believe it can be done. Unless you has access to their wallet.dat
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June 14, 2011, 05:23:41 AM |
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Good question, I'm wondering the same thing.
Thanks I don't feel like such a noob! ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif) btw: nice service if its yours http://bitcoinvert.com/ been looking for something like this!
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June 14, 2011, 05:24:05 AM |
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I don't believe it can be done. Unless you has access to their wallet.dat
ohhh ....obviously, that won't happen..
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June 14, 2011, 05:26:10 AM |
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I'm wondering as well.
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June 14, 2011, 08:59:28 AM |
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With this you can only see how many bitcoins went to that particular account. And if they have been spent. But every user has many accounts (addresses), so you don't know how many BTC one particular user has.
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June 14, 2011, 12:45:29 PM |
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That is sufficient, every has the right to privacy, after all you don't everybody to know which addresses are tied to you, ey?
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June 14, 2011, 04:17:58 PM |
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[bump]
I guess this is the only answer?
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January 07, 2012, 08:30:39 AM |
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I wanted to know the answer to this myself. Blockexplorer has a way to view the current balance of an address, i.e. payments to minus payments out of an address. Query looks like the following: http://blockexplorer.com/q/addressbalance/1Fm7bWSVuVAAZQu8J3YkbXaeUoVMdhJat8Note as mentioned above, it is difficult to know the balance of a person, as you would have to know all the bitcoin addresses they control. Hence this is probably the closest answer to your question with minimum of effort.
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January 07, 2012, 10:02:10 PM |
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You can't see anyboy elses balace because one can have generate an unlimited number of bitcoin addresses for each wallet.dat. You can see in blockexplorer every bitcoin which moved to which address, but you cannot know which address belongs to which wallet.dat.
For example I have a wallet.dat but I generate address a, b and c. If I move money between a and b or c, then my wallet.dat still have the same amount of money since all these are my own adressen. But for another person which only knows my adress a it looks as if I transferred my money to another account.
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The key phrase here is, "if you know every public address of the wallet". Not only is it unlikely that anyone would give you every address they use, they might even have more than one wallet. Or use e-wallets. Or keep some BTC in an exchange, mining pool, or other BTC based site that allows you to create an account for your coins.
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February 18, 2012, 11:58:30 PM |
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It gets even worse when you consider that people can (and I'm sure some actually do) transfer bitcoins by simply transferring private keys. In theory, you might send someone funds, and they don't even move from the address, but ownership and possession still gets transferred.
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It gets even worse when you consider that people can (and I'm sure some actually do) transfer bitcoins by simply transferring private keys. In theory, you might send someone funds, and they don't even move from the address, but ownership and possession still gets transferred.
But if you do that you have to trust the one who gave you his priv key, because he could have a copy of it enabling him to spend the coins too. So it's not a very safe way and i doubt many people are using this method.
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February 19, 2012, 02:11:41 AM |
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It gets even worse when you consider that people can (and I'm sure some actually do) transfer bitcoins by simply transferring private keys. In theory, you might send someone funds, and they don't even move from the address, but ownership and possession still gets transferred.
But if you do that you have to trust the one who gave you his priv key, because he could have a copy of it enabling him to spend the coins too. So it's not a very safe way and i doubt many people are using this method. Yeah, I can't imagine it's very common; I'd think it would likely only be with people who trust each other significantly. But then, you never know. Casascius publicly advertises his physical bitcoins; someone could claim they do the same on occasion for a few folks, and as long as the private keys aren't kept in a wallet they frequently use, one couldn't prove that they hadn't done this.
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Bitcoin is the ultimate freedom test. It tells you who is giving lip service and who genuinely believes in it.
... ... In the future, books that summarize the history of money will have a line that says, “and then came bitcoin.” It is the economic singularity. And we are living in it now. - Ryan Dickherber... ... ATTENTION BFL MINING NEWBS: Just got your Jalapenos in? Wondering how to get the most value for the least hassle? Give BitMinter a try! It's a smaller pool with a fair & low-fee payment method, lots of statistical feedback, and it's easier than EasyMiner! (Yes, we want your hashing power, but seriously, it IS the easiest pool to use! Sign up in seconds to try it!)... ... The idea that deflation causes hoarding (to any problematic degree) is a lie used to justify theft of value from your savings.
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