Do you want commit access to implement these ideas? They sound great.
Let me know anything else you need.

On 08/01/14 22:38, Thomas Hartman wrote:
> It seems to me that there should be a low level tool with core
> functionality well factored, which many higher level tools can access --
> dark wallet, sx (or something commandline-ish like it but more
> elaborate), eventually electrum, and others.
>
> Example of low level function:
> -- Gather unspent inputs for a single public address
> -- Gather all transactions for a public address (whether spent or
> unspent). Aka history
> -- Generate key(s) given a seed (electrum style or bip32)
>
> Example of high level function
> -- Generate a transaction, including change handling and whatever
> identity mangling / obfuscation properties are wanted
> -- Connect with outside accounting packages
>
> Balance (whether of single address or an account) seems more like a high
> level than low level feature. Although in this case it's somewhat a
> question of taste.
>
> I'm trying to separate out the layers, sharing thoughts/ideas (as
> tphyahoo) at
>
> https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/issues?state=open
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:
>
>> I think this should be a layer above in a separate tool(s).
>>
>> Maybe bash scripts which use the on-disk filesystem to organize keys,
>> provide encryption .etc Then you can even have a wallet with a menu to
>> perform actions which works by decrypting and piping keys to different
>> tools.
>>
>> On 08/01/14 18:41, Thomas Hartman wrote:
>>> I think what is really wanted is the notion of an account.
>>>
>>> You want to know the balance of an account, where an account could be
>>> defined various ways
>>> -- a single address
>>> -- a group of addresses
>>> -- a group of addresses under a deterministic public key(s)
>>> -- some arbitrary collection of unspent transaction outputs
>>> -- just something with a name, and no addresses/inputs associated
>>> with it yet
>>>
>>> I think if we get the notion (or notions) of account right, the
>>> balance logic is easy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Amir Taaki <genjix@???
>>> <mailto:genjix@riseup.net>> wrote:
>>>> sx history implements this, by allowing you to pass multiple arguments
>>>> in on the command line. I would simply copy this code over to
>>>> sx-balance. Feel free to just commit it straight to the repo.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/blob/master/src/history.cpp
>>>>
>>>> On 08/01/14 10:30, Grazcoin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> sx balance shows the balance of a single Bitcoin address, and I would
>>>>> like to enable multiple addresses:
>>>>> https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/issues/34
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions on how to implement it? I have noticed that
>>>>> https://github.com/spesmilo/sx/blob/master/src/balance.cpp
>>>>> implements it
>>>>> using history fetch of the address. Would it require a modification on
>>>>> the obelisk side?
>>>>>
>>>>> Grazcoin
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