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From: "Jan Vornberger" <jan@uos.de>
To: "Bitcoin Dev" <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Determine input addresses of a transaction
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:50:16 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37162.134.106.52.172.1319727016.squirrel@webmail.uni-osnabrueck.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2v4uhUdsWEg58Xs2OhOf3ED0Q2LGmkrRpdJDxvVMexdQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am Mo, 24.10.2011, 16:55, schrieb Gavin Andresen:
> If you assume the client has all previous transactions, then you could
> get the transaction input's prevout (from the memory pool or disk) and
> then ExtractAddress() from it.

I now created a patch based on this idea. To avoid slowing down
listtransactions or gettransaction, I put it in a separate RPC
call 'getorigins'. This is the patch:

https://github.com/javgh/bitcoin/compare/bfa4600a93...getorigins

Any obvious mistakes I made there?

Regards!
Jan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-24  8:29 [Bitcoin-development] Determine input addresses of a transaction Jan Vornberger
2011-10-24 11:09 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-10-27 14:12   ` Jan Vornberger
2011-10-24 14:55 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-10-24 16:25   ` Mike Hearn
2011-10-24 18:52     ` Simon Barber
2011-10-24 17:14   ` Michael Hendricks
2011-10-27 13:37   ` Jan Vornberger
2011-10-27 14:50   ` Jan Vornberger [this message]
2011-10-25  9:45 Jan Vornberger
2011-10-25 10:03 ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-10-25 10:42 ` Mike Hearn

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