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I want to access unspent data of a specific bitcoin address.
I am trying this command
bitcoin-cli -regtest listunspent "some bitcoin address"
But I am always getting an empty list. I am using local bitcoind server on windows 7.
What should I do or use any function for getting desired output ?
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listunspent only displays information about addresses which are currently part of your wallet. Bitcoin Core does not maintain indexes of unspent outputs for addresses you do not own, and will simply return a blank set if you attempt to query for them.
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As mentioned here, you can first get the addresses of an account using getaddressesbyaccount and then list all the unspent of those addresses using
bitcoin-cli listunspent 6 9999999 "[\"1PGFqEzfmQch1gKD3ra4k18PNj3tTUUSqg\",\"1LtvqCaApEdUGFkpKMM4MstjcaL4dKg8SP\"]"
where 6 and 9999999 are the min and max confirmations
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In order to get the list unspent of a specific bitcoin address( not belongs to your wallet), you must first import the address to wallet using importaddress This RPC does not require the private key of that address. Note that this will cause the program to rescan the entire blockchain, which will take several minutes.
now you can use the listunspent call to get the UTXO.
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Assuming the addresses are in your wallet, you're looking for listreceivedbyaddress. That will give you back this:
Returns an array of objects containing:
- "address" : receiving address
- "account" : the account of the receiving address
- "amount" : total amount received by the address
- "confirmations" : number of confirmations of the most recent transaction included
- "txids" : a list of transaction IDs that you can pass to
gettransactionin order to see the full transaction.
Yup, But if i want to get unspents of an address which is not a part of my wallet ? than what function should i use ? @Nick – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-27T17:54:26.193
2@HassanMehmood Doesn't exist. Use bitcoin-abe or electrum server or blockchain.info instead. – Nick ODell – 2015-04-27T18:22:13.257
Hey, from answers, I added one my multisig add using this command "addmultisigaddress". and sent some satoshis to this address. but I am still getting empty list after calling :listunspent" ??? – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-29T15:31:03.967
@HassanMehmood You need to rerun with rescan. http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/22199/what-exactly-did-bitcoin-qt-rescan-reindex-do/22224#22224
I did rerun with rescan, but still getting empty list.. @Nick – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-29T18:59:09.940
@HassanMehmood Are there any unspents at that address? Has the rescan finished? – Nick ODell – 2015-04-29T19:04:07.413
Yup, There are some unspents, This is the address "31zeoskE8zeyQARFEVzwJzsp7GQpLn5zhF" and I started the server using bitcoind.exe -daemon -rescan -debugnet -printtoconsole – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-29T19:14:54.237
And Yes i think the rescan is finished! – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-29T19:20:13.383
but still getting empty list. :/ – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-29T19:20:40.700
Now I sent some btc to one of other addresses that are showing me while running command "getaddressesbyaccount". and after that i run the cmd "listunspent 0" so it shows that transaction.
But after that I again send some btc to my mulisig address which I have added using addmultisigadress cmd. But listunspent not showing any unspent related to multisig ? Why ? – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-29T19:37:28.250
1addmultisigaddress is not enough to make the wallet treat the address as its own; you also need to have all of the private keys. If you want to treat an address as yours regardless of keys, use importaddress. – Pieter Wuille – 2017-10-31T06:39:18.130
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Unspent data appears in Unspent List only after SIX confirmations.
Try this command,
bitcoin-cli -regtest listunspent "some bitcoin address" 0
It will show all the unspent transactions.
I am running the same command but getting empty list in response. I first generated and added a multisig address using "addultisigaddress" command and call listunspent. But in result i always get an empty list though I sent some satoshis to this address 2 times – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-29T17:40:09.903
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Other options, beyond what Nick mentioned, are to either use the toshi.io API:
toshi.io - API - utxo's for address
Or run your own toshi node:
https://chain.com is also very good and easy to use! but i was trying not to use any 3rd party APIs. – Hassan Mehmood – 2015-04-29T07:57:18.963
@HassanMehmood if running the toshi node locally isn't something you want either (it consumes well over 200GB of space) then you could run bitcoin core with txindex enabled. You'd then have to parse the blockchain and build and keep up a database of utxo yourself. As others have pointed out, if you just want a bitcoin-cli argument for this, it doesn't exist. – Robert McCone – 2015-04-30T22:17:11.687
2OP is asking about arbitrary addresses, not just those in his wallet. – Pieter Wuille – 2017-10-31T06:40:03.957
oh.. my mistake :)
hope this might help people who are looking to get unspent from the wallet addresses. – RealSteel – 2017-11-03T07:04:54.003