Hello folks.

I am getting a bit frustrated with the standard bitcoin command line client (bitcoind).

I have been building a service where I want incoming payments to always go to a certain well-advertised and known and unchanging address X. I want to be able to also send out money to one or more addresses from X. In the local wallet, I manage not only address X, but also Y and Z.

Using sendmany allows me to specify one or more destination addresses and amounts for each, which is great. It even lets me specify the sending account (not sending address). So let's say address X was in account A, address Y was in account B, and address Z was in account C. So I thought I could send from X by specifying A as the account to send from using sendmany.

This is not the case. The bitcoin client will use some algorithm I do not really understand to send money from any of the X, Y, or Z accounts. This is absolutely not what I want to do.

I tried a patched version of the client, as per: https://github.com/coderrr/bitcoin/tree/v0.5.3%2Bcoderrr. I downloaded the binaries for linux and ran the command line daemon but it does not get the blockchain. I had figured this would resolve the issue. It did not.

So what options do I have then?