Questions tagged [bitcoin-core-accounts]

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Have I understood the concept of address, account and wallet correctly and how the wallet balance is calculated?

Regards to all, I am completely new to blockchain and bitcoin as its most popular implementation. I have some probably basic questions for someone, but it's really important for me to get it right. It ...
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Does Bitcoin Core install well in PureOS following this tutorial?

I would like to install Bitcoin Core in PureOS distro. I was going to follow this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmMVoBgIzNc Will this work or do I need to take additional steps, like ...
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Crypto Account hacked

12 words password has been hacked and lost all the money in crpto account. Anyways to recover the money ? Please please help!
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Retrieve my balances

I just recently discovered that i had a GUIminer that i installed in 2012. I also had Bitcoin Core with several wallet.dat files. I have been unsuccessful in running a full node as my computer and ...
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How to replicate getaccountaddress behaviour using getnewaddress and labels api

The problem is getaccountaddress is getting deprecated and it has specific behaviour (not related to accounts) I'm relying heavily on. It gives you the same address between multiple calls as long as ...
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Transaction haven`t got [closed]

5 days ago some Pokerroom sent to my Bitcoin Core wallet a slight amount of bitcoin. I checked it on Blockchain, it's OK. But, unfortunately, still there is no bitcoins in my wallet. I've also sent ...
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Separating user accounts in a wallet for a large scale web app

I'm planning to implement a web platform that maintains user wallet accounts and generally acts as a web wallet. They can deposit, withdraw and transfer coins.The number of accounts should be in ...
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How address balance is calculated?

It does not seem practical to scan every transaction on a block chain to determine the balance for an account. As the block chain grows this seems even more difficult and resource consuming. Perhaps ...
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How to send everything in a bitcoind account?

I have create an account in bitcoind, which has got some balance of 1.77 btc, I would like to send everything to another address that is an admin address, so is there any rpc method to send everything ...
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Handling change addresses without using rawtransactions?

Since I'm using the wonderful accounts feature which is soon to be deprecated (shame on me, i know - but i simply didn't have resources and time as a single person to do an internal accounting system ...
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Is it possible to use the RPC's Label feature in it's current state over the deprecated Accounts feature?

I'm doing my bachelor project in web development using Bitcoin RPC. At the moment it uses the deprecated accounts feature, but i'd really like to upgrade to using the newer label feature instead. ...
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Prompting an account name

I made an account "hello" in bitcoin daemon and wanted to run this. Whenever i put in hello when prompted, getac1 would return empty array; whereas, getac2 and getac3 returns addresses associated with ...
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Is there a similar server like Bitcoin core that truly supports accounts?

Is there a similar server like Bitcoin core that truly supports accounts (and also RPC)? I was hoping for something like the ethereum geth node. where each account has it's address and individually ...
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How could I do everything manually?

I don't like asking coin base to create an account for me and having them give me my private key. How can I do all of this process myself? Either bitcoin or ethereum
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Cost of transfer from multiple addresses [duplicate]

Suppose I have an account with several thousand addresses, each having some BTC. I'm sending all my funds to another address. Will the transaction fees be proportional to the number of my addresses, ...
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why a website for buying bitcoins is asking for my CVC code [closed]

I am trying to create an account on coinbase to buy bitcoins (in france). But coinbase is asking for my cvc number while creating the account, not for a purchase. I am afraid for security issues, as I ...
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Where do exchanges store the user's money?

For example if I deposit money to Kraken with my credit card and I do Not buy any coin they just stay in my user account there, since they are withdrawn from my bank account are the money kept in the ...
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Transaction instantly rejected trying to send from bitcoin-cli

Trying to send bitcoins with this command: bitcoin-cli sendfrom accountdos 1HC...kgT 0.03233376 1 I get this error immediately: The transaction was rejected! This might happen if some of the coins in ...
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Creating an account system

I am using the bitcoind account system for my web app, but it doesn't work the way I want it to work. So I want to make my own account system in Laravel(probably opensource). The main reason for the ...
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bitcoin-cli remove an account

How i can remove an account created on my server? coincoin@localhost:~# bitcoin-cli listaccounts { "": 0.00000000, "first": 0.00000000, "perso": 0.00000000 } I juste want to delete "first" ...
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How are off-chain transactions handled by bitcoind?

I'm trying to figure out how transactions are actually handled by bitcoind. I'm looking at the full list of RPC methods and there are missing documentation for some most interesting methods. move I ...
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Regrouping accounts belonging to same user

I am analysing some BTC transactions for academic purposes. As part of that work, I would like to identify users with several accounts and regroup them under a single identifier. I have assumed that ...
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How to spend bitcoins From Account and specify Fee

I am writing an application that uses bitcoin wallet accounts to specify what addresses belong to what user. I have been reading the documentation trying to find a way to spend Bitcoins specifying the ...
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Is it possible to have multiple accounts in MultiBit HD?

Is it possible to have multiple accounts within one wallet? Mycelium allows multiple accounts within one wallet, but I don't see how to do that within MultiBit HD.
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How do you delete an account in Bitcoin Core?

I am attempting to allow multiple bitcoin addresses to be created per account, but how can I delete them using the standard API? There doesn't seem to be a function for that. E.g. the acccount "Test" ...
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Negative Dogecoin Balances? [closed]

Through dogecoin-cli, I sent half the dogecoins I own to an external address. Now, when I call the listaccounts function, I get this: [root@web ~]# ./dogecoin-cli listaccounts { "" : -25001....
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Does the Ripple protocol allow listing an account's (address's) past transactions? If yes, is there a web site for this?

There are many well known sites that show balance and past transactions for a Bitcoin address, eg. blockchain.info, blockr.io etc. Does something like this exist for Ripple? Is this even possible with ...
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Bitcoin wiki docs, account or address?

listtransactions [account] [count=10] [from=0] Returns up to [count] most recent transactions skipping the first [from] transactions for account [account]. If [account] not provided it'll return ...
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How to preserve anonymity within Ripple?

The common practice for cryptocoins like Bitcoin is to limit address reuse to preserve anonymity. This is achieved by sending the "change" of a transaction to another address and using a unused ...
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How can I ensure that bitcoind does not use unspent outputs for a given address?

With RPC calls to bitcoind, from separate (python) scripts, I'm: calling getnewaddress to set up a new key pair for a 'special' address, assigned to a distinct account (let's call this '...
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Bitcoind, Multisig, and the default account ""

I've been attempting to do transactions to and from a multisig address for a couple of days, but I'm finding that my default account "" keeps paying for things, even though I'm explicitly saying other ...
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Which crypto currencies have shortest payment address?

Different crypto-currencies have different lengths of payment addresses. For example, LTC address length is 34 case sensitive letters and numbers. NXT address length is 20 digits. Short payment ...
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How safe is my USD deposit at Bitstamp?

With Mt.Gox probably going insolvent/broke in these days, how safe is my USD account balance with Bitstamp? Is Bitstamp as a company registered with some financial institutions? Are customers USD ...
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How to get coin address balance from *coind server?

Im running *coind on my local ubuntu box. I see that "*coind getbalance [account]" will get me the total balance of a user account. And thats good and that works fine. How do I get the balance of a ...
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Bitcoin - differences between address, account and wallet

I've been reading official BTC documentation and now I'm completely lost. Documentations is too tangled and written in unnecessary many words. They have: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address https://...
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Howto scale thousands of bitcoin accounts properly with bitcoind deamon?

It is said in the bitcoin wiki that: The accounts code does not scale up to thousands of accounts with tens of thousands of transactions, because by-account (and by-account-by-time) indices are not ...
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What would I need accounts for?

I'm messing around with the bitcoind daemon and I now stumbled upon accounts. As far as I now understand, my bitcoin installation has one wallet, which contains one or more addresses. In general, you ...
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Can the change address be in a different account after using sendfrom <fromaccount>?

I made a sendfrom call specifying the fromaccount parameter. The resulting transaction created a change address which was not assigned to the account I specified. The address was not assigned to any ...
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Is there an alternative to salvagewallet that keeps account info?

I am using the accounts feature of bitcoind , if a wallet gets corrupted and bitcoind is started with -salvagewallet then the account information is lost. So, is there any built in feature that will ...
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signed up in 2010-now trying to access [closed]

Back when I signed up with bitcoin and received 2 bitcoins, I haven't done anything with my account/wallet since 2010 is there a way for me to access my bitcoins or have they been lost, I still have ...
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Recovering bitcoins after the owner's death

My Brother died in April and we believe he had a bitcoin account. Is it possible to find out how to recover/take over his accounts? I know this is a new form of currency but it seems odd there is no ...
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Does the US hold almost all of the bitcoins?

It seems to me that most of the people involved in this bitcoin market are from the US. Are there any statistics that can confirm this? Also, related question. If this is indeed true, is it ...
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Where is the safest place to trade? Open account? Wallet? [closed]

I know nothing of bitcoin and would really appreciate any help and suggestions.
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How to open a corporate account on Bitstamp?

I am trying to open a corporate account on Bitstamp, but there are so many questions to answer, is there any easy way to get approved? How are you supposed to answer: Is your business regulated for ...
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What can be done if Bitcoin is used for money laundering?

If a criminal uses Bitcoin to launder his funds, can the bitcoin network stop him from using Bitcoin? Can we close his account?
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listtransactions will list transactions only involved with me?

Will listtransactions list all transactions from blockchain, or only list transactions involved with me? I have checked bitcoin wiki, it's only saying that it will return recent transactions from "...
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How can get Bitcoin client API account(<account>) name

I have setup the BIK_php API of http://bitcoindevkit.com/ in PHP. Now, I am able to connect and generate new addresses, but when I am going to call some functions like getaddressesbyaccount, ...
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"accounts" in bitcoin-qt

I've read (i.e. here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Accounts_explained) about the concept of "accounts" in bitcoin. However I can't see how to create them in bitcoin-qt. How do I use accounts?
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What are the special Ripple accounts ACCOUNT_ZERO, ACCOUNT_ONE, and root account?

What are the special accounts ACCOUNT_ZERO, ACCOUNT_ONE, and root account? It's not clear from the Ripple wiki what they are meant for. A little explanation would be nice. What makes these accounts "...
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How should webapps handle addresses/wallets?

There is a ton of bitcoin information, but it's hard to find up to date best practices for making webapps. I am very comfortable making secure webapps, and I'd like to start some bitcoin related ...
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