[Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

[Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

[Flavien Charlon]

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Hi,

What is the status of watch-only addresses in Bitcoin Core? Is it merged in
master and usable? Is there documentation on how to add a watch-only
address through RPC.

Also, I believe that is going towards the 0.10 release, is there a
rough ETA for a release candidate?

Thanks
Flavien

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Re: [Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

[Flavien Charlon]

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Also, I was wondering if there were nightly builds I could try this from?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Flavien Charlon <
flavien.charlon@coinprism.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What is the status of watch-only addresses in Bitcoin Core? Is it merged
> in master and usable? Is there documentation on how to add a watch-only
> address through RPC.
>
> Also, I believe that is going towards the 0.10 release, is there a
> rough ETA for a release candidate?
>
> Thanks
> Flavien
>

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Re: [Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

[Wladimir]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Flavien Charlon
<flavien.charlon@coinprism.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the status of watch-only addresses in Bitcoin Core? Is it merged in
> master and usable? Is there documentation on how to add a watch-only address
> through RPC.

It has been merged. There is the "importaddress" RPC call, which works
the same as "importprivkey" except that you a pass it an address.

> Also, I believe that is going towards the 0.10 release, is there a rough ETA
> for a release candidate?

Yes - aim is in a few months, probably by the end of the year.

AFAIK there are no nightly builds at this moment. Warren Togami was
building them for a while (at http://nightly.bitcoin.it/) but he
stopped some time around June.

It's not recommended to use master without at least a little bit of
development/debugging experience of yourself (to trace down problems
when they appear), so it's best to build it yourself if you're going
to test day-to-day development versions.

Wladimir

Re: [Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

[Felipe Micaroni Lalli]

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This feature makes possible Bitcoin Core to read a balance of any
public address via RPC call or, after importing the balance, it became
available only via QT interface?

On 18-10-2014 07:13, Wladimir wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Flavien Charlon 
> <flavien.charlon@coinprism.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> What is the status of watch-only addresses in Bitcoin Core? Is it
>> merged in master and usable? Is there documentation on how to add
>> a watch-only address through RPC.
> 
> It has been merged. There is the "importaddress" RPC call, which
> works the same as "importprivkey" except that you a pass it an
> address.
> 
>> Also, I believe that is going towards the 0.10 release, is there
>> a rough ETA for a release candidate?
> 
> Yes - aim is in a few months, probably by the end of the year.
> 
> AFAIK there are no nightly builds at this moment. Warren Togami
> was building them for a while (at http://nightly.bitcoin.it/) but
> he stopped some time around June.
> 
> It's not recommended to use master without at least a little bit
> of development/debugging experience of yourself (to trace down
> problems when they appear), so it's best to build it yourself if
> you're going to test day-to-day development versions.
> 
> Wladimir
> 
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

[Mike Hearn]

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>
> This feature makes possible Bitcoin Core to read a balance of any
> public address via RPC call or, after importing the balance, it became
> available only via QT interface?


Neither. A watching wallet still has to be synced with the chain in the
same way as any other wallet, i.e. after adding an address, if it was
already used, you must rescan.

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Re: [Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

[Warren Togami Jr.]

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320695
I made a branch of Bitcoin 0.9.3 plus backports including watch-only and a
huge pile of patches cleaning it up from the master branch.  It seems to
work fine although it is not heavily tested.  I suppose if you use ONLY for
watch-only it can't be harmful?  Dunno.

Warren

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Flavien Charlon
> <flavien.charlon@coinprism.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the status of watch-only addresses in Bitcoin Core? Is it merged
> in
> > master and usable? Is there documentation on how to add a watch-only
> address
> > through RPC.
>
> It has been merged. There is the "importaddress" RPC call, which works
> the same as "importprivkey" except that you a pass it an address.
>
> > Also, I believe that is going towards the 0.10 release, is there a rough
> ETA
> > for a release candidate?
>
> Yes - aim is in a few months, probably by the end of the year.
>
> AFAIK there are no nightly builds at this moment. Warren Togami was
> building them for a while (at http://nightly.bitcoin.it/) but he
> stopped some time around June.
>
> It's not recommended to use master without at least a little bit of
> development/debugging experience of yourself (to trace down problems
> when they appear), so it's best to build it yourself if you're going
> to test day-to-day development versions.
>
> Wladimir
>
>
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses

[mbde]

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This is just a guess, but I can imagine sipa's address index branch
might be more suitable for an use case where information about any
address is required - jmcorgan continued to maintain a usually somewhat
up-to-date version:

https://github.com/jmcorgan/bitcoin/tree/addrindex

As for balance queries, that's not possible out of the box and I have my
own branch for this with a few other RPC calls that are noted in the README:

https://github.com/dexX7/bitcoin/tree/master-addrindex-extended

When using the original, you need to ensure a transaction is part of the
main chain and wasn't orphaned. If you consider using my branch, please
consider it twice and review the changes first.

-------- Original Message --------
*Subject: *Re: [Bitcoin-development] About watch-only addresses
*From: *Warren Togami Jr. <wtogami@gmail.com>
*To: *Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
*Date: *Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:37:40 -1000
> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320695
> I made a branch of Bitcoin 0.9.3 plus backports including watch-only
> and a huge pile of patches cleaning it up from the master branch.  It
> seems to work fine although it is not heavily tested.  I suppose if
> you use ONLY for watch-only it can't be harmful?  Dunno.
>
> Warren
>
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com
> <mailto:laanwj@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Flavien Charlon
>     <flavien.charlon@coinprism.com
>     <mailto:flavien.charlon@coinprism.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > What is the status of watch-only addresses in Bitcoin Core? Is
>     it merged in
>     > master and usable? Is there documentation on how to add a
>     watch-only address
>     > through RPC.
>
>     It has been merged. There is the "importaddress" RPC call, which works
>     the same as "importprivkey" except that you a pass it an address.
>
>     > Also, I believe that is going towards the 0.10 release, is there
>     a rough ETA
>     > for a release candidate?
>
>     Yes - aim is in a few months, probably by the end of the year.
>
>     AFAIK there are no nightly builds at this moment. Warren Togami was
>     building them for a while (at http://nightly.bitcoin.it/) but he
>     stopped some time around June.
>
>     It's not recommended to use master without at least a little bit of
>     development/debugging experience of yourself (to trace down problems
>     when they appear), so it's best to build it yourself if you're going
>     to test day-to-day development versions.
>
>     Wladimir
>
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