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Show HN: Balances – Mint for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

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This looks awesome, signed up and added all my wallets but I think i'm experiencing a bug (https://balances.io/users/twofactor_qr) seems to be blank.

Same here, I like the interface and enjoy being able to easily see all my balances and don't need 2FA as this is view-only but I like to enable 2FA whenever possible.

Sorry about that, guys. We're looking into it right now.

Hey guys, I just pushed a fix for this. Sorry about that! Thanks for letting us know.

Just enabled it and works as expected. Thanks for the quick fix!

Edit: Loving the gifs btw!

Since I used the Bitcoin-Core to send/spend bitcoins, the export instructions from https://balances.io/import_instructions will not work.

The balance displayed is much less than what the wallet contains, because of the internal addresses from the key pool.

See http://blog.barthe.ph/2014/04/03/bitcoin-balance-differs/

Hmm, we will definitely look into this, thanks!

And just like that your wallets aren't anonymous anymore or at least are tied to each other beyond transactions between them.

Seriously, though, this is kinda neat.

Wallets arent anonymous they are all in the block chain.

I think he/she meant that now the bitcoin addresses can be tied to an individual, as this app is running on mobile.

Incorrect. There are no "wallets" on the blockchain. In fact, the blockchain is not even organized by address. The blockchain is simply a ledger of inputs and outputs, most of which refer to a certain address or addresses (but not to wallets).

If someone uses a new Bitcoin address for each transaction, there is no way outside of statistical analysis (which may not even work in many cases) to know which addresses belongs to which wallets.

It doesn't show any of the BTC I purchased from coinbase, only the $20 worth I got via TinkerCoin

Is it possible you have more than one account/wallet on Coinbase? We currently only pull 1 account from Coinbase (whichever one is your first). We are working on making it pull all your accounts.

Nope, only one! I definitely clicked "get address" on a wallet which had significantly more bitcoin.

Did you use the Coinbase integration[0] or add an address from Coinbase manually? The latter will likely not work due to the way Coinbase generates addresses for each transaction.

[0]: https://balances.io/coinbase/auth

This is exactly what I have been looking for! I just signed up and added a couple of wallet addresses and I have to say, it looks really good. I can't wait for the iOS app, any info on an approximate release timeframe?

Glad you are enjoying it! In terms of iPhone release timeline we are still working out the exact date. It will be after the launch of iOS 8 however.

Thank you for using a limited oauth scope for Coinbase. Had you not, I would not have connected to Coinbase.

I do wish that you had a transaction history more like Mint does. The balance only isn't too useful for me.

No problem! :)

Transactions are in progress (https://balances.io/transactions). Definitely something we want for ourselves as well, and we'll get it released ASAP.

The dogecoin lookup seems to be broken, 0 DOGE for all my dogecoin wallets

Nevermind, apparently the Dogecoin QT app makes new addresses every time coins are sent out so I had to track all my coins to the last one that still had all my coins

Ya we are looking into a way to better import addresses when the data is formatted like that.

will there be something like https://coinbase.com/docs/api/overview?

We aren't currently opening up our API to the public. However, if there is enough demand for it (http://balances.uservoice.com/forums/244164-suggestions), we might open it up sooner rather than later.

This one looks fantastic :)

Or you could just use Mint

We can only pray that your crypto is good. Recall the problems that bigger sites had.

Since they don't touch private keys at all I don't think they'll be that big of a target.

Correct. Though there is an issue of plausible deniability if we do get breached, assuming a user who absolutely requires it used a username that can be tied back to them. We're working on a solution for that.

If you require plausible deniability to be safe or avoid incarceration, I would recommend not using Balances at this time – I obviously can't guarantee that we are safe from a very motivated intruder, but we have taken many paranoid precautions to avoid such a breach.

Mildly off-topic, but a fun side effect of this site's demographic is when someone does a "Show HN", competitors regularly show up in the comments section and try to convince you how the submitted app is no good, and to try their app.

It's almost a view into the viability of the market (or whatever it's called) to see how many competitors comment - the more, the better. Right?

There's also http://cryptofolio.info/ which consumes feeds from multiple exchanges per asset type to show either an average or a preferred provider.

On a related note, http://www.currly.com is a place for a compiled view on digital currency news.

For those of you interested in tracking more coin than just Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin!

Check out the beautiful http://getfortuneapp.com/

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