Bitcoind RPC questions.

[dogisland]

Via the RPC API can I do the following ?

1. Get the balance of an address even if that address is not in the wallet.
2. Sign a payment message and send it on to the bitcoin network ?

Thanks.

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To clarify, I'd like to use bitcoind to interrogate the block chain. It looks like the API only works for accounts and addresses in the wallet. Is that correct ?

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No and no. While it may be reasonable to add the latter into Bitcoin, the former probably won't happen, since inspecting the block chain can be a compute or I/O intensive process. I suggest using bitcointools to find your way around the block chain; then, depending on what you want to do you can either write something based on bitcointools, patch bitcoind, or something else.

[jgarzik]

blockexplorer's API can get you the balance of an address.