getinfo - balance and getbalance return wrong values after a send* about dcrwallet HOT 10 CLOSED

It's not wrong. We treat your own change outputs no differently than any other change output.

The UI/API kinda sucks, yes. It would be nice to distinguish between the two. But when you send using minconf=1 (the default), those change outputs are not used.

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How is it not wrong? If i have 25 coins.. i send 2 coins... i do a getinfo.. .my balance tells me i have 0 balance. It should tell me i have 23 balance. Are you suggesting that I have to wait X number of blocks before I can check my balance to get an accurate read?

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If you have 1 UTXO with 25 output value, and you spend it sending 2 coins elsewhere and 23 coins back to yourself as a change output (let's ignore fees for simplicity), those 23 coins are not confirmed. They can be spent again with minconf=1 once they are mined in a block.

Use getbalance accountname 0 to show your unconfirmed balance, or sendfrom accountname addr amount 0 to spend unconfirmed coins.

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this deviates from bitcoin behavior. btc will always report change back to you from you as part of your balance. is there a way to get a 0 conf balance from the wallet?

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@richiela I believe you are looking for getbalance accountname minconf balancetype. The treatment of balancetype is here. The help description for getbalance states

"getbalance-balancetype": "The type of balance to return, 'spendable', 'locked', 'all', or 'fullscan'"

I think this is what you are after. For example getbalance default 0 all. The default type is spendable.

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That doesn't work either... get balance default 0 all returns the same thing as getinfo.

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This RPC command is also ignoring the specified account and returning the value for the total wallet, just like purchasetickets and the other RPC commands listed in issues.

--wallet getbalance default 256 spendable
13.3819809

There is 13.xx dcr spendable in the total wallet, but 0 spendable in default account atm and it still returns the total spendable.

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Is there any update on this? we need a way to send a payment, and then check the the balance to ensure it is accurate.

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Use 'get balance default 0 spendable' NOT 'get balance default 0 all'. There's a bug in the 'all' flag that needs to be fixed. See #2

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getbalance should be fixed in #104.

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