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I am messing with the Bitcoin sourcecode.

Normally when you want to send some BTC you type :

./bitcoind sendtoaddress 1ADRESSS 0.001

How would you do this in the sourcecode on a recurring basis?

So what code is needed to send a transaction to a specified address each time a block is created? Almost like a tax. and where would this code be placed?

I am learning the Inside of the Bitcoin protocol and C++ so any help would be great.

Murch
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user17120
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  • So you want a script that will spend your money without asking your permission? It's doable, but very dangerous. YOu would be better off looking at multi-signature or escrow transactions. – T9b Jun 08 '14 at 10:28

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You can make use of the -blocknotify=<cmd> facility as described under: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin.

This is a nice example of how to use -walletnotify: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/24483/11221, -blocknotify can be configured in exactly the same way.

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The table of RPC commands can be found in rpcserver.cpp in the static array vRPCCommands. From that you can see that the RPC command sendtoaddress is implemented by a C++ function named, appropriately enough, sendtoaddress. A quick grep shows this function is defined in rpcwallet.cpp, and its work is done by calling pwalletMain->SendMoney(). So pwallet->SendMoney() seems like the right function to call.

Nate Eldredge
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