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A bitcoin blockchain explorer and API
https://insight.bitpay.com/
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Insight shows "There are no transactions involving this address" for some addresses with balance #812

Open sullerandras opened 7 years ago

sullerandras commented 7 years ago

For example this address: https://insight.bitpay.com/address/1MvjHXkAReh2FXAbjkH1UQDBUjZTKofYrX

It got 50 BTC in this transaction so it should display 50 BTC as balance: https://insight.bitpay.com/tx/3b8b22b7929c29255cdc73044d77c8e8d330be34367824173119a7c1c309af13

Others like blockchain.info display the correct balance.

matiu commented 7 years ago

thanks for the report. let us check it and we will get back to you.

kleetus commented 7 years ago

tx: 3b8b22b7929c29255cdc73044d77c8e8d330be34367824173119a7c1c309af13

output: 0

is a pay-to-public-key type utxo, therefore, the public key is provided in the output and NOT provided in the input that spends this utxo. Insight doesn't make any distinction, currently, for this type of output.

We chose not to worry about accounting for these types on txs because they are not used very much anymore. There are plenty of utxos of this type (Satoshis'), but we don't account for them.

I think I can make this happen for the final release of v5.0.0, which has to happen before the hard fork.