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Autor: Thomas Hartman
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Dla: Amir Taaki
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Temat: Re: [Libbitcoin] balance for multiple addresses
Sure, commit would be great.

Actually I'm interested in sponsoring some bounties once I have a clear
picture and path organized. My c/c++/python is pretty rusty.
On Jan 8, 2014 3:26 PM, "Amir Taaki" <genjix@???> wrote:

> 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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