Electrum: Incorrect balance of earlier addresses
Latest version of client and server.
Tried to get balance of "1NY3Pr8EYgy74K5DwQCYkKsE4dYNeiGUGg" got 0 but on online block explorers it shows 50 BTC. what might be the reason?
shikita
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It doesn't include P2PK payments
kyuupichan
on 8 Jul 2019
i got only little idea about P2PK. so there won't be any new p2pk payments ? is P2PK deprecated ?
shikita
on 8 Jul 2019
It works fine. It is up to the people concerned how they receive payments; they may or may not choose to use P2PK or indeed P2PKH. The assignment of bitcoin addresses to P2PK payments is non-standard and a hack anyway, so I'd argue the block explorers are responsible for the confusion.
kyuupichan
on 8 Jul 2019
what is the reason for not including the P2PK payments in ElectrumX?
And how to get balance of those payments from ElectrumX?
shikita
on 9 Jul 2019
They are there, you just need a different query
kyuupichan
on 9 Jul 2019
would you give an example to query P2PK transactions? Thank you very much for your patience.
shikita
on 9 Jul 2019
See the ElectrumX protocol docs.
kyuupichan
on 9 Jul 2019
hmmm. Ok. Thank you.
shikita
on 9 Jul 2019
Note there is currently no way to monitor ("import") a P2PK script in Electrum (but any script can be monitored server-side). You can however sweep coins from P2PK scripts.
A reasonable way to support importing these scripts would be what Bitcoin Core started doing recently:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/descriptors.md
i.e. using output script descriptors
SomberNight
on 9 Jul 2019
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It works fine. It is up to the people concerned how they receive payments; they may or may not choose to use P2PK or indeed P2PKH. The assignment of bitcoin addresses to P2PK payments is non-standard and a hack anyway, so I'd argue the block explorers are responsible for the confusion.