Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in wallet?

[overc]

Hi All!

Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in my wallet.dat file?

I would like to receive payments to my addresses which are in cold wallet and
I do not want to rely only on blockchain.info API.

Thank you in advance.

[rapport]

Hi All!

Is that any way to ask bitcoind about balance of address which is not in my wallet.dat file?

I would like to receive payments to my addresses which are in cold wallet and
I do not want to rely only on blockchain.info API.

Thank you in advance.

Been asked many times and currently, no, bitcoind can't do that.
You can try using a wallet that works in 2 modes: online and offline.  The online wallet will show the balance, but will not have the private keys.

[overc]

Are you talking about Armory?

I would like to use only the core bitcoin wallet.
So, the core wallet does not have such feature: online and offline mode, does it?

[elbandi]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=296904.0
It's already merged to bitcoin trunk codebase: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4045

So build a latest unstable, or wait to next release.

[rapport]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=296904.0
It's already merged to bitcoin trunk codebase: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4045

So build a latest unstable, or wait to next release.

Thanks
(If waiting, need to wait for 0.10 in case there are other releases that are not 0.10)

[williamj2543]

Sadly its not possible. Does txindex change anything? The best way currently would probably be an api like blockchain.info/rawaddr/ and decode the json

[fonsie]

Perhaps https://chain.com/ could be of any help to you.