Quote from: DannyHamilton on August 13, 2014, 03:27:32 AM

Quote from: The Ferox on August 13, 2014, 03:04:29 AM

Quote from: DannyHamilton on August 13, 2014, 02:57:14 AM

I'm not aware of any service or easily installed and used software that will accomplish what you want.

I suspect you will get a lot of advice that you have already said you don't want from a lot of people who won't bother reading your entire post. In the future, if you try asking the question again, I suggest you start a "self-moderated" thread. That way you can delete all the undesired advice.

Thanks danny, i appreciate your feedback (no easily installed and used software ), as for the self moderated thread, the whole point of defining non-viable solutions or un-needed advice is to avoid having to moderate a thread.

Anyways, i guess there is always Fiverr.com, i have managed to get a ton of development done through them for next to nothing with BitcoinJ so if over the next day or two nobody else has a viable solution, i will hire some guy from India or Pakistan for $5 to copy/paste a few lines from BitcoinJ to make what i need since i have no clue what any of the stuff in the BitcoinJ zip file is and they seem to read it like a kid reads cat in the hat.

Unfortunately, part of the problem is that at the protocol level, there is no such thing as an "address" or a "balance". There are only "outputs" and scripts that set up requirements that must be met in order to reassign the value from those outputs. The concept of a "balance" or even a "bitcoin" for that matter are just abstractions that we humans use to make it easier to talk about transferring control of value.

Therefore, the only way to find the "balance" of a very long list of "addresses" is to have a database of all currently unspent outputs, and then check every address against the scriptPubKey of each unspent output. Any software to do this would need to stay synchronized with the blockchain, and therefore would need to be kept running or the user would have to wait for synchronization every time they start it up. Any service to do this would need to be able to handle the HUGE number of requests to search the entire database for every address for every potential user of the service.

I fully agree with everything you said, although my coding abilities stop at basic PHP and MySql, my hardware abilities and budget have landed me with a BackBlaze 4.0 storage pod which after a few days worth of cussing and swearing i got assembled and on my network, as well as a home brew semi-supercomputer with 128 gig ECC ram and 10 quad core intel processors with haswell architecture.

I have tried my hand at resolving this myself using the Insight software and API, and tried my hand at chopping (cutting and pasting) java code to work my own solution. but was left with "i should just stick to making websites" as i know jack squat about java, C, or for that matter anything not HTML or PHP related.

I am really beginning to think i am going to have to take advantage of some poor developer from some far off country through fiverr to do the coding for pennies of what it is worth. In the end it will be a solution though which is better than whats out there now.