From: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix•org>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Determine input addresses of a transaction
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:14:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHuXub-XSS5zKfCvhuK4GH3MKOaSqsyWT4Px9en+2p7_USG-Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T2v4uhUdsWEg58Xs2OhOf3ED0Q2LGmkrRpdJDxvVMexdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail•com>wrote:
> 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. That is probably a bad idea for
> listtransactions, since fetching all the previous inputs from disk
> just so you can check to see if they're 'green' violates the "a
> feature shouldn't cost anything if it is not being used" design
> principle.
>
Are there current users of gettransaction for whom the performance penalty
would be problematic? If so, perhaps gettransaction could take an optional
second argument includeinputaddresses which defaults to false.
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Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-24 8:29 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 [this message]
2011-10-27 13:37 ` Jan Vornberger
2011-10-27 14:50 ` Jan Vornberger
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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