Check Address Balance Using Bitcore

[ddehueck]

We can do this with bitcore, but we'll have to writea script to do this as there is not function I'm aware of that can do this on the bitcore platform.

Basically we will have to take all the UTXOs associated with the address of the user's account and add all of them up to get a total address balance (most wallets do this automatically). This could be accomplished using another api like chain's with just a single call but if we're sticking to bitcore it'll just require a little extra programming.

I think I'll start working on a script tomorrow to accomplish this. Thoughts?

[ddehueck]

This is helpful: http://bitcore.io/playground/#/unspent

[ddehueck]

http://bitcore.io/guide/module/explorers/index.html#Retrieving_Unspent_UTXOs_for_an_Address_(or_set_of)

[rolandnsharp]

Sounds good, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner I've been working on another project.

We may also want to look into using this: https://chain.com/ . It can send alerts when certain blockchain events occur.

BTW: I've reset the commit history on this project to start again from scratch.

[manikchhabra1275]

How can we get the bitcoin balance of an address without using inbuilt function getUnspentUtxos() ?
How can we do it programmatically ?