Sending from address to address in bitcoind

Question

I'm programming the back-end for an ecommerce solution, Bitcoind API gives me one way of sending money to a bitcoin address: sendfrom <fromaccount> <tobitcoinaddress> <amount>

If I understood well, this will transfer money from one account to an address, but I don't see any way of sending from address to address. I didn't implemented accounts on my backend system, and don't want to do it as it's an aditional layer of complexity that I don't want to deal with right now.

So, I supose this will grab money from whatever address/addresses asociated to the account and send them to the bitcoin address provided. Any way of doing what I want to do?

Answer 1

To find the transaction outputs you can spend

listunspent 0 99999999999 "[\"addressYouWantToSpend\"]"

Then create the tx

createrawtransaction "[{\"txid\":\"txIdToSpend\",\"vout\":n}]" "{\"destinationAddress\":amountToSend, \"changeAddress\":changeAmount}"

Then sign the tx

signrawtransaction <hexStringProvidedBycreaterawtransaction>

Then publish the tx

sendrawtransaction <hexStringProvidedBysignrawtransaction>

Answer 2

You have a few options here. You can create a raw transaction as discussed in another answer, but this is probably the most difficult and easiest to do wrong (make sure your inputs and outputs match!)

Another option would be to create a one-to-one mapping from addresses to accounts.

You can also play games with the move command moving coins from one account to another and then sending, from that account, but this is complex also.