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NAME

Finance::Bitcoin::Wallet - a bitcoin wallet

SYNOPSIS

 use Finance::Bitcoin;
 
 my $uri     = 'http://user:password@127.0.0.1:8332/';
 my $wallet  = Finance::Bitcoin::Wallet->new($uri);
 
 print "Have: " . $wallet->balance . "\n";
 $wallet->pay($destination_address, $amount);
 print "Now have: " . $wallet->balance . "\n";
 
 foreach my $address ($wallet->addresses)
 {
   print $address->label . "\n";
 }

DESCRIPTION

This module is part of the high-level API for accessing a running Bitcoin instance.

new($endpoint)

Constructor. $endpoint may be the JSON RPC endpoint URL, or may be a Finance::Bitcoin::API object.

balance

Returns the current balance of the wallet.

pay($dest, $amount)

Pays some bitcoins to an account, causing the balance of the wallet to decrease. $dest may be a Finance::Bitcoin::Address, or an address string.

addresses

Returns a list of receiving addresses - i.e. addresses that can be used by other people to send money to this wallet. Each item on the list is a Finance::Bitcoin::Address object.

This list may be non-exhaustive!

create_address($label)

Creates a new receiving address - i.e. an address that can be used by other people to send money to this wallet. $label is an optional human-friendly name for the address. Returns a Finance::Bitcoin::Address object.

BUGS

Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/.

SEE ALSO

Finance::Bitcoin, Finance::Bitcoin::Address.

http://www.bitcoin.org/.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Toby Inkster

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.