Blockchain – Can I get a Bitcoin address that still has a balance and hasn’t sent any transactions since January 2010?

admin4 hours ago

You can use Node RPC. getblockhash, getblock and gettxout For this. See example below.

Please call first. bitcoin-cli getblockhash 871951Returns the hash of the block. 0000000000000000000233611afd0d00f1e874d8f962c94bdebf40975432b95e

Then bitcoin-cli getblock 0000000000000000000233611afd0d00f1e874d8f962c94bdebf40975432b95e 2 Get the content of the block in JSON format. You can then use some JSON parser, e.g. jq Use a command line tool to filter only Coinbase transactions (which will be your first transaction). tx array):

{
  "txid": "9f71b8f4724ead5fa8521e1511867f599064c55237e374c013a5a30ec99be812",
  "hash": "76e359604e2aab1aa5e47829014f78bcbd0b89bd1ad5065f284b7ea44a2c146b",
  "version": 2,
  "size": 325,
  "vsize": 298,
  "weight": 1192,
  "locktime": 0,
  "vin": (
    
      "coinbase": "030f4e0d04eeca44672f466f756e6472792055534120506f6f6c202364726f70676f6c642f40398451da2c000000000000",
      "txinwitness": (
        "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
      ),
      "sequence": 4294967295
    
  ),
  "vout": (
    
      "value": 5.46e-06,
      "n": 0,
      "scriptPubKey": 
        "asm": "1 3daaca9b82a51aca960c1491588246029d7e0fc49e0abdbcc8fd17574be5c74b",
        "desc": "rawtr(3daaca9b82a51aca960c1491588246029d7e0fc49e0abdbcc8fd17574be5c74b)#p35tdfgk",
        "hex": "51203daaca9b82a51aca960c1491588246029d7e0fc49e0abdbcc8fd17574be5c74b",
        "address": "bc1p8k4v4xuz55dv49svzjg43qjxq2whur7ync9tm0xgl5t4wjl9ca9snxgmlt",
        "type": "witness_v1_taproot"
      
    ,
    
      "value": 3.20244687,
      "n": 1,
      "scriptPubKey": 
        "asm": "0 7086320071974eef5e72eaa01dd9096e10c0383483855ea6b344259c244f73c2",
        "desc": "addr(bc1qwzrryqr3ja8w7hnja2spmkgfdcgvqwp5swz4af4ngsjecfz0w0pqud7k38)#y9upg3rz",
        "hex": "00207086320071974eef5e72eaa01dd9096e10c0383483855ea6b344259c244f73c2",
        "address": "bc1qwzrryqr3ja8w7hnja2spmkgfdcgvqwp5swz4af4ngsjecfz0w0pqud7k38",
        "type": "witness_v0_scripthash"
      
    ,
...

Then you can extract only the following: txid and vout.n This field generates a list of transaction outputs to check. yes:

9f71b8f4724ead5fa8521e1511867f599064c55237e374c013a5a30ec99be812,0
9f71b8f4724ead5fa8521e1511867f599064c55237e374c013a5a30ec99be812,1
9f71b8f4724ead5fa8521e1511867f599064c55237e374c013a5a30ec99be812,2
9f71b8f4724ead5fa8521e1511867f599064c55237e374c013a5a30ec99be812,3

You can then call about each one. gettxoutfor example bitcoin-cli gettxout 9f71b8f4724ead5fa8521e1511867f599064c55237e374c013a5a30ec99be812 0 If the result prints nothing, the TXO has not yet been used. If nothing is printed, it has already been spent.

The results are as follows:


  "bestblock": "00000000000000000000349653eb5d146e6336ea9a95a7a8bcd3fac852f8c908",
  "confirmations": 4,
  "value": 3.20244687,
  "scriptPubKey": 
    "asm": "0 7086320071974eef5e72eaa01dd9096e10c0383483855ea6b344259c244f73c2",
    "desc": "addr(bc1qwzrryqr3ja8w7hnja2spmkgfdcgvqwp5swz4af4ngsjecfz0w0pqud7k38)#y9upg3rz",
    "hex": "00207086320071974eef5e72eaa01dd9096e10c0383483855ea6b344259c244f73c2",
    "address": "bc1qwzrryqr3ja8w7hnja2spmkgfdcgvqwp5swz4af4ngsjecfz0w0pqud7k38",
    "type": "witness_v0_scripthash"
  ,
  "coinbase": true

All of this can be easily automated to process the range of blocks of interest.

admin4 hours ago