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I have created, signed and sent a raw transaction via bitcoind RPC. Now I want to wait for it to have n confirmations.

Considering transaction malleability, I can't just check the "confirmations" field returned by gettransaction, because the transaction with that particular txid may never be accepted, in case an equivalent transaction with some other txid was accepted instead.

So, what is the canonical way, using bitcoind JSON-RPC, to check if an equivalent transaction was accepted in place of mine? What calls are better suited for the task?

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You can use the listtransactions JSON-RPC call to get the complete list of transactions that have to do with your addresses. This includes both sends and receives. You can filter for the transaction you're looking for by the category (should be "send"), address, amount and time. The txid and confirmations in this RPC call should be what's actually included in the blockchain and can be relied upon.

For reference, here's what the RPC call looks like:

[
{   
    "account" : "",
    "address" : "1ENnzep2ivWYqXjAodTueiZscT6kunAyYs",
    "category" : "send",
    "amount" : -0.00040000,
    "fee" : -0.00010000,
    "confirmations" : 34055,
    "blockhash" : "000000000000000019313300fa20943b3974a97c1da2de6de13ea1281f77097f",
    "blockindex" : 414,
    "blocktime" : 1404861981,
    "txid" : "8a1f0f07fb397b2aa0e77995723f2dac9aee7df63a6f05a7db7d168d62a60f94",
    "walletconflicts" : [
    ],
    "time" : 1404861981,
    "timereceived" : 1412296394
}
]
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  • So it is organized by output addresses, but what this fee means? If my transaction has 2 output addresses, the entries returned by listtransactions for both will contain the same fee?
    – lvella
    Commented Feb 17, 2015 at 16:54
  • The fee will be the same, yes.
    – Jimmy Song
    Commented Feb 17, 2015 at 21:42
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    I am somewhat unsatisfied with this answer, because the answer for listtransactions will become increasingly large with my wallet usage. That won't be practical, if checking outgoing transactions is a routine operation.
    – lvella
    Commented Mar 28, 2015 at 6:10
  • wouldn't an answer be that you get a negative confirmation amount if a malleability tx got confirmed instead?
    – tobi
    Commented Apr 3, 2017 at 9:35

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