How to properly monitor incoming transactions for a specific address with bitcoin-cli?

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I would like to monitor incoming transactions for a single address using

bitcoin-cli listreceivedbyaddress 1 false false <myaddress>

My problem is the returned array will become longer and longer and I cannot output the last 10 incoming transactions using the arguments. I don't want to rely on any online service, rather I want to use the CLI.

Can this be done?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '21 at 01:22

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You could use the -walletnotify startup option for bitcoind/bitcoin-qt. This will execute a program whenever the wallet receives a transaction. So you can write a program which is executed for every transaction and looks for ones which have outputs for the addresses you want. Then this program can do whatever to notify you.

answered Dec 18 '21 at 01:22

Ava Chow

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I'm glad for your answer. I was hoping I could give an additional argument to -walletnotify for inline commands, but it seems I have to modify the conf to contain a call to a script. I.e. walletnotify=/home/scripts/transaction.sh %s. Apparently, the flag only activates the feature. Your answer helped me to get on the right track, though! :) – Martin Braun Dec 19 '21 at 13:55
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@MartinBraun you can use double quotes for inline commands IIUC – Jan 06 '22 at 06:50

How to properly monitor incoming transactions for a specific address with bitcoin-cli?

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