[Bitcoin-development] working with the blockchain: transaction fees & sum(inputs) != sum(outputs) (newbie questions)

Mark Friedenbach mark at monetize.io
Fri Feb 14 23:01:41 UTC 2014


Still straightforward: get a list of transaction hashes for the block
from bitcoind, then query these transactions from the UTXO changestate
database.

On 02/14/2014 12:56 PM, Denis Andrejew wrote:
> Thanks Wladimir, perfect info!
> 
> Mark, sounds good. But most likely this DB is keeping this
> information only for the current state of the blockchain and what I
> need really is to be able to get the unspent outputs (and calculate
> the balance for all addresses) for any particular block I happen to
> be interested in :)
> 
> - Denis
> 
> "Be the change you want to see in the world." (Mahatma Gandhi)
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Mark Friedenbach
> <mark at monetize.io <mailto:mark at monetize.io>> wrote:
> 
> On 02/14/2014 04:20 AM, Denis Andrejew wrote:
>> What I'm trying to do is read the blockchain in order to find
>> all unspent outputs. I'm using bitcoind via rpc as my source of 
>> information about the blockchain.
> 
> By the way, bitcoind keeps this information in a special LevelDB 
> database in the chainstate directory. It would be rather simple to 
> iterate over the database for the list of al unspent outputs.
> 
> 




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